<p>1) I’ve somehow learned to type really fast since being in college 
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2) That’s an awesome and balanced schedule both semesters. In the spring, do not worry about bio 142, it isn’t hard at all.<br>
3)Get into Soria’s lab, 226L (w/221-Z)and 227L(w/222-Z), it’ll optimize (in this case, minimization=optimization) your workload. Unlike 221-Z lab, it requires much less work and is less “cookbook”. Sometimes you come up with your own project and you do the outside research to accommodate it. Also, he creates additional free time because he very often cancels lab. He doesn’t make you come when he is busy (again, it’s literally his lab, he oversees you as opposed to some lab director that over sees like 5-10 sections of orgo. labs) or when there is simply nothing to do. Also, unless he’s mad, you always get an A in it (he’s never been mad yet, so everyone has gotten an A every year). What’s weird is, despite it being significantly less work, often learns more than the 221/222 lab counterparts (or at least more of it sticks) because of the personalized environment and because of the independence fostered in it. Also, he spends little time on simple topics in organic chemistry. Some of the topics your peers cover only in 222L may already have been adressed in 226-L for you guys. Plus, there are no lab finals. You simply keep a notebook and there are a few formal reports (which he grades, normally easily, and then gets all students around the table to discuss results and data as indicated in the report or notebooks) Basically, it’s like the research “progress” meetings where he gives useful feedback about not only the way you wrote it, but the way you approached the project.</p>