quarter system.. really that much worse?

jangel86
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:15:23 +0000

I’m at WPI right now, and have mixed feelings about the quarter system here. It’s nice because its less material to learn for the final, and if you don’t like the class, it will be over in 7 weeks. However, it goes really fast, and having different professors, especially for the calc 1-4 sequence, can be pretty confusing. Also, if you are sick an miss a few classes, you are way behind. Plus, although you only have 3 classes, you have them each 4 days a week, not including conferences/labs, etc. Also, the finals tend to have a lot more weight. For calc, I had 5 quizzes and then the final, which is 30% of the grade. For Spanish, the midterm was 20%, the final was 25%, and then there was 2 short projects. For chem, it was 3 tests and a final. So you really have to do well on the final to do well.