Is the quarter system at UCD really that bad?

sopranokitty
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 05:38:22 +0000

I took 16 units in winter quarter, and yet I had time to go to my internship every Friday afternoon and attend club meetings on Thursdays and every other Tuesdays (one of the clubs I’m in only meets once every other week).

I heard someone mention on the bus once that they had a friend who was taking 20+ units, worked two jobs, and still managed to get A’s in all her classes (apparently she was a pre-med student), be president of her sorority and was socially active, and the person said their friend was still happy.

As for the smaller Psych classes, they’re not necessarily small–they’re just broken up into discussion times, but the sections are the same. For example, there’s section A, but section A is separated into different subsections (A01, A02, A03, A04, etc.). All of section A has the same lecture time, but the discussion sections (the subsections) meet at different times.