I'm in! Now what?

mathmom
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:09:18 +0000

Marite has great suggestions. You don’t want to take only courses that have home work every day (like languages) or several times a week (many intro math and science courses), but you also don’t want to only take courses that all have one big paper due at the end of the term. Also don’t do what my sister-in-law did and sign up for four courses that you can’t drop at the end of a semester if you don’t like them.

Personally, I found that Harvard was no harder than high school (good prep school) - easy to get a B, but considerably harder to get A’s. But it’s fine to get some B’s - and as a freshman even a lot of B’s.

Take at least one course that is something you haven’t been exposed to at all.

And if you feel stressed, remember the college health center is there to help.