is this too much for my first semester?

Colleges & Universities The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>M408D
CH301
UGS302
PHY 303k/PHY 103M
ME 302</p>

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<p>I have BIO 311C
M408D
CH 301
UGS 303
BME 102</p>

<p>I’m a little worried too. i heard it completely depends on the profs you get. who do u have?</p>

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<p>Yeah I keep hearing these horror stories…
the ones we have similar:
M408D - Ceparro
CH301 - Cowley</p>

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<p>Ceparro is a good teacher i heard. haha
But I think Cowley is a little hard… hmm…</p>

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<p>No. There is no such thing as “too much” your first semester, unless you had issues in high school.</p>

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<p>I would have to disagree soadquake. I think taking 17+ hours for anyone, especially freshmen, is a lot. Definitely go easy at least your first semester with 12-15 hours to get a feel for UT classes (even if you had tough AP classes in hs), then after that you can decide if you want to up the ante.</p>

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<p>xnewbie and dhs-- the calc, chem, and ugs classes that you have aren’t too bad. Always depends on the professor though. Your harder ones will probably be the engineering classes</p>

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<p>What if your 17 hours encompasses “soft” classes? Mine went from 14 to 17 simply because of AST 301…</p>

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<p>ilovetexas11111, YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING!</p>

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<p>xnewbie, you’re on track to take CH302 and CH204 (lab) in the spring, and that’s going to be a ton of work. CH 204 is way more work than you’d expect for a two credit course, so just be aware of that when you’re planning for spring.</p>

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<p>thanks but I’m actually a M E :slight_smile:
So no ch204 for me!</p>

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<p>It depends on how good your time management skills and study skills are. If you took plenty of AP courses and self studied for a few AP exams in high school, then you should be fine with taking more than 12 hours. I took 16 hours my first semester of freshman year and did fine.</p>

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<p>It does depend on how “good” you are at time management and such. I took 17 hours my second semester with 3 hours of research per day.</p>