<p>If you come from a rigorous high school, your freshman year general electives are probably not harder than your most academic classes. If the upper level courses in your major are no harder for you than high school was, either you chose an easy major at an easy college or you are a prodigy. :)</p>
<p>I think a lot of liberal arts kids find freshman year pretty easy. In other countries, the distribution credits our kids tend to take early in college are taken during the last year of their equivalent to high school.</p>