Take more honors classes or more chem?

comfortablycurt
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 03:02:30 +0000

If your plan is to go into physics and computer science, organic chemistry won’t really be of much benefit. It is certainly applicable to specific areas of physics, but in any broad sense, it’s not particularly useful. Knowing more science is never a bad thing for someone that wants to go into a scientific field, but organic chemistry isn’t a ‘fun elective’ type of course. I’m a CC student and also a physics major. I faced the same dilemma last year. I took General Chemistry I and II last year, and really enjoyed them. I wanted to take organic chemistry this year, and in many ways I still wish I had. But I’m glad I didn’t. I have several friends that are currently in it, and it sounds like it’s a hard class. It would have been a lot to take on along with all of my math and physics along with my other classes from last semester and this semester.

Are you already planning on doing honors sections of your math and physics classes? Those are the ones that really matter. If you’re trying to transfer as a physics major, an honors section of a history class isn’t going to be matter so much. It might not really be worth the extra work that would be involved. I did honors sections in all of my math, physics, and chemistry courses. I’ve never done any honors sections in my GenEd classes though. I considered it in cultural anthropology, but I already had honors sections of physic II, calculus II, and general chemistry II that semester…so I opted against it.