<p>I’ve recently been pretty stressed about my classes, particularly because one of them is giving me a lot of work. It’s the GOVT 2827 China and the World class. It’s really interesting and all, but 1) it’s an 8:40 class; 2) the professor gives some 100+ pages of really dry reading a week, most of which I cannot hope to make myself comprehend; 3) it’s only 3 credits, even though the reading itself should be another credit at least; 4) I’m A&S undecided so this class won’t help or hurt me. I took it for fun. Now it’s a chore.</p>
<p>With this GOVT class I’ve got 6 courses, 18 credits. Without it I would have 5 courses, 15 credits. Drop or not drop?</p>
<p>Used to be most CAS courses were four credits, and 4 courses at 16 credits was considered a normal schedule. IMO six courses is too much.
If you are already being stressed out I think it is warranted to consider dropping something. It doesn’t necessarily have to be this course though, if it is so very interesting. When I was a student an 8:40 class would have been a non-starter, but I am nobody’s role model in this regard.</p>
<p>drop it, especially since you took it just for fun and now it’s not fun anymore. it’s not even to the point of prelims yet, so things will only get more stressful. if you can, you want to be able to give your best effort to each class you take and it doesn’t sound like you’d end up doing that for this class.</p>
<p>Spring of last year I took 24 credits, 16 of them being those notorious 100+ page per week reading type courses. Yes, by the second week I was already like 800 pages behind. I got a 3.8 but I would suggest taking less courses - to get a 4.0. But I will admit, taking 24 credits really really accelerates the speed at which you can graduate – cutting almost a semester off.</p>
<p>it’s not at all bad that you signed up for the course originally, so you don’t need to be more careful in the future necessarily. that’s why they let you drop for such a long time, so that you have time to make choices exactly like the one you are faced with here.</p>