Enrolled in Maryland, now what?

lenmonster
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:04:09 +0000

I’d look at your four year plan for Engineering and see what you should be taking. Everyone will take freshman English, a lot take COMM107 or its equivalent (INAG110). You will do this somewhat with your adviser, but that process may be rushed, so if you want to do research into times and professors: Do a search on the umd subreddit. Go to OurUMD to look at professor and class ratings, or RateMyProfessor. Google UMD Four Year Plans, and you’ll navigate to the major and get a sense of what you should be taking. This is what your adviser uses anyway. So the main thing with researching ahead of time is you can really get a sense of the schedule times and teachers you want if there are any choices in the matter. Sometimes, you have to take what you can get. Also, once advising is done, you can switch sections as you need to. They open up sections of freshman classes all summer and others fill, so that can often help you get your schedule better time-wise.