My first attempt at a freshman course schedule!

Silver12065
Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:43:02 +0000

OK, I see a couple problems with your sched.

First of all, unless it’s different for people who choose to take advanced standing, you won’t be able to take two ECO classes in your first semester (you can’t take two of any single department). But it may very well be that since you are technically a sophomore due to advanced standing you may be able to do this.

Also, don’t take PHY101 unless you absolutely have to. It’s generally not advisable to take courses with all material you’ve already covered, unless you need the course as a departmental or as a requirement for something like pre-med. Also, PHY101 is also not that easy of a class; since all of the non-engineering pre-meds take it, the curve is pretty tough, and the course is entirely based on memorization. Unless you absoutely love physics or need it for some requirement, I’d strongly recommend against taking it. If you want an easy ST, take something like MOL101B (intro to molecular biology) or any of the ENV (environment) classes that have fun field labs

FRS can be easy or it can be very challenging, it all depends on the seminar you pick, but most involve a decent amount of reading. WRI is generally tedious and takes a lot of time. MAT201-2 are not especially difficult.

One thing to consider is the amount of problem sets and papers each semester. ECO100-1 each have a weekly problem set, as does MAT201-2 and PHY101-2. WRI will have 3-4 papers and FRS will probably have multiple papers, especially if you take an LA. If you don’t mind doing a bunch of problem sets each week first semester and writing many more papers second semester, this is not something you need to worry about, but I know I enjoy doing a mix of things and would prefer to balance things out so I had diverse assignments and not just a ton of one type.

Just some thoughts…