Freshman Year: Chaos ensues

OP- your enthusiasm is infectious!

Do NOT do orgo and calculus in the same semester. Just don’t. No matter who tells you “this is the recommended track” or “you need to take them now to be able to complete the double major plus the minor” that will be the universe telling you that this is a very bad idea.

Major in French and cover off the pre-med requirements. Or something else.

But you have been candid about your math challenges, and you are going to be shocked by college calculus. The class you need to take is going to be populated by kids who took Calc AB in HS (maybe got a 3 so they need to take it again) but they’ve seen 30% of the material already. It will be populated by some fantastic intuitive math kids who went to rural HS’s which didn’t offer calculus-- but they eat, breathe and sleep math. The Calc for science and engineering moves much faster and in much greater depth than any math class you have ever taken. So sure- combine it with a writing class, take it with a French class, but don’t go near orgo the same semester as your first college math class.

Play the long game here. You can’t burn out in March of freshman year!

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