Stanford Course for freshman

NothinButTheBest
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:06:42 +0000

stanford2012
Yeah, if you really want to do MatSci, you don’t need physics labs. Chem31x is only offered in the fall, and if you want to do MatSci alternative energy track, you only need one quarter of chem. I’m not sure why you want to take it or cs106x now; it really isn’t required for anything else that for that track. Plus, chem31x is geared more towards premeds (biochem), if you want to take a chem class that is more geared towards matsci and engineering in general, I strongly suggest taking engr31 (A). I took Engr31 and the prof relates what you are learning in chem to a lot of MatSci research including alternative energy. The CA for this class was doing research on hydrogen storage. It seems like these are the kind of people that you want to get in contact with.

I would suggest that if you are interested in MatSci, you should take more MatSci classes, like Engr 50 (intro to matsci,W), or this matsci lab…I think its MatSci 160 or 161. It’s offered in the spring and counts for the writing in the major. When you take these classes, get to know the profs so that you can get in their labs. This will be more important in the long run than taking all these general weeder intro classes.

GeekNerd
I’m not quite sure I understand what you’re saying, but I think I would say yes, to a certain degree. SLE is harder than ihum because its more intense, but there are definitely ihums that are just as intense (as far as the amount of reading and work). I would suggest that if it seems interesting to you than take it. I would say if you want to major in math and then coterm, I don’t see a problem with you taking SLE as far as getting behind. There aren’t as many required classes in math so you should be ok.