Opinion on Raikes School/formerly JD Edwards Honors

noo1776
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:19:32 +0000

@orangepop: I can tell that there are FOR SURE, others that are majoring in Actuarial Science, Math, International Business, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, (someone is also Pre-Med), etc…

The JDEHP classes meld Computer Science and Business to satisfy the requirements for those minors. It’s the major benefit of the program from companies’ perspective and it’s nice because it allows you to learn two things that really interact day-to-day in jobs (my dad’s in IT, he’s in love with the whole concept).

I will wind up with a Computer Engineering BS with a minor in Computer Science in about 4.5 years (Engineering basically takes that long anyway), and I’m strongly considering adding like 1 or 2 math classes and a few extra business classes and getting a Math Minor and MBA. … OR… You can add a few EE classes and get another minor, or still relatively easy… a dual major (reminder, I’m a CE major).

It’s a load, for sure… 17 hours is a lot. But I’ll be honest (again), I’ve been through all of my classes, save for the Communications class that I have tomorrow… and outside of screwing around too much in Calc I last year… I don’t feel stressed out about anything yet. The teachers have been clear in their expectations, transparent in their assignments and policies and I feel like I can manage it. That having been said, I need to do some reading before I go to sleep tonight, but I’ve been putting it off for hours now.

My schedule is very tightly laid out for most of my Freshman and Sophomore years. Junior and Senior year are more flexible because the actual JDEHP courses are reduced to the Design Studio projects, leaving the rest of your time for other requirements.

I have Calc II, an English Honors Seminar and some stupid Engr 010 Seminar course (that only lasts 8 weeks and is pass no-pass easy…).

The Kauffman Center is SMACK DAB in the middle of the campus. Seriously, its 60 seconds from the union. It takes 3 minutes to get to my English class… and like 5 minutes to get to my Calc class (and thats only because I have to go straight from English to Calc… Kauffman is actually between those two as well!)

I’m taking 17 hours and the rest of my classes take place on the first floor of Kauffman (the dorms for JDEHP) and it is a Business class (that includes a Leadership mini class and Accounting “mini class”), a CompSci type class… and then Communication.

This post felt really cluttered and jumbled… I keep thinking about impending laundry upstairs. Again, let me know what else I can tell you.