<p>How many courses are a good option in my freshman year? I am planning on taking 4. I am an engineering major. Is it too much ?</p>
<p>Can I survive on a 100 dollar allowance per month ?</p>
<p>I live in Jester West. Is it going to be noisy in there ? I need to study a lot I am guessing . So is there a library or someplace i can go and study ?</p>
<p>Well, my son will be taking 17 hours as a freshman engineering student. Four 3-hour classes, one 4-hour class, and one 1-hour class. Plus a FIG class that doesn’t count for any hours.</p>
<p>We’re going to try giving him $100/month and see how it goes.</p>
<p>He will live in Jester West. If it’s noisy, he can always go to the library or engineering building to study.</p>
<p>4 classes is a good number. I never recommend that people take more than 4 classes. Two M/W/F, two T/Th. Not too empty, not too full.</p>
<p>Yes, you should be able to survive off of that. Remember you can use your 1400 dine in dollars to buy things on campus including stuff like shampoo and soap, cereal and milk for your room, etc. However, those prices are very marked up and you are better off going to wal-mart for that.</p>
<p>It won’t be too noisy if you stay in your room. If your hallway seems to be exceptionally loud (this can be an issue if you want to study at like 6pm, when everybody is going to dinner/coming back from classes/hanging out/etc) then you can just go to the PCL, the main library, which is just across the street from Jester. Every floor except one there is quiet/no group work, and there are lots of individually divided up desks to sit at and do private studying.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that if you want/need to graduate in four years in engineering, you’ll probably have to take more than 4 classes per semester, even with AP credit. I don’t think I ever took fewer than five classes in a semester as an engineering major. BME requires 133 hours for graduation, an average of 16.625 hours/semester. Even if you had 13 hours of AP credits or summer school classes, you’d still need 15 hours/semester.</p>
<p>12 to 14 hours is good first year. And you can always do more credit during summer school.</p>
<p>After my first semester(14 hours, 6 classes), I’m only taking 4 classes, 12 hours from then on. Even if you don’t finish in 4 years, don’t rush. You want to learn the material, not cram/low GPA. There is always summer school.</p>