<p>Why do you feel you have to take 5? Looking at that courseload, I would recommend taking out that last EE/GE class. Physics 1A lab is pretty easy but lab reports are time consuming no matter how you look at them…and CS31 as you very well know will take some time too. Personally I think Math32B and Physics 1B are a slight step up from their predecessors so those first 4 courses alone will be quite a handful for your spring quarter.</p>
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<p>I never took chem at UCLA (passed out of it) but I knew from AP chem in high school that it just wasn’t my thing. If you didn’t even like chem20A then I personally think having to go through ochem and the rest would be as hellish as cs. Basically, don’t think about doing biomed option if it’s just to escape cs.</p>
<p>It’s no easier in spring than in the fall. Smallberg teaches CS 31 in fall and spring and from what I’ve heard from friends who took it last spring, his projects and exams are the same style and level. Rohr teaches CS 31 in fall (using Smallberg’s projects/exams) and winter (making up his own projects/exams).</p>
<p>Apparently the only advantage in taking CS 31 in the spring over the fall is that there won’t be any CS majors in the class, so you won’t feel like an idiot when some CS guy asks a question you don’t even understand. The grading isn’t any easier in the spring.</p>
<p>Since all your grades in fall were weak, you probably botched the transition from high school to UCLA, spending too much time on the fun side of college life, not enough on your classes, and importantly, not taking action when you ran into trouble. As soon as you find yourself having trouble in a class, sacrifice some fun time and put more effort into the class by studying more and seeking help (office hours, study groups, hiring a tutor if necessary). The quarter is so short that if you let a week or two go by and figure you’ll catch up, you’re dead – you’ll just be falling deeper and deeper into the hole.</p>
<p>As others have said, you can turn this around. Change your ways and you can succeed. Of course, as an asian boie you have the extra task of managing your parents’ expectations as well…</p>
<p>The curve may be better, but it doesn’t mean the course is “easier.” It’s the same level of difficulty as it is in fall, so if you fail in the fall, you’re most likely going to fail in the spring unless you change your work habits.</p>
<p>Rohr doesn’t make his own projects. Although it is said the projects is created through a collaboration of the CS 31 instructors, I believe they each take turns making up projects for the course. In other words, Smallberg and Rohr will create the projects and exams together, even through Smallberg will not teach for the quarter.</p>
I don’t think that’s the case. I saw last Winter’s 31 specs and noticed that they had a great deal in common with the projects I had to do in 33 last Spring. For instance, the format was similar in that he simply listed a bunch of things we can’t do without actually telling us what we can do. Also, he used Matrix operations as a basis for several of his projects for both classes.</p>
<p>cs 31 last spring was hard. the avgs on our midterm and final were higher than those in the fall last year. so dun trip and just take the class whenever, just not with rohr in the winter haha. im taking cs 32 with nach this winter quarter, hopefully i dont get owned…</p>
<p>haha, I worked at Symantec over the summer and heard a bit about Nachenberg from the CEO (this all while working at the corporate site, and not the technical one in Culver City).</p>
<p>You can ask Smallberg himself. Either that or you didn’t understand what I wrote. I am saying Rohr doesn’t write the CS 31/32 project specs by himself, though the format it is presented in is unique. The ideas are a collaboration within the computer science department. Smallberg says this is the only fair way, such that the projects are no less/more difficult when another professor is the instructor.</p>
<p>i would drop one. i just did something similar last quarter, 4 classes + 4BL (20 units). it wasn’t fun, and my GPA dropped. if you don’t work, though, it probably won’t be terrible…or at least until finals week.</p>
<p>Wow, yeah, I took 4BL with 3 other classes and that was one hell of a quarter. I would say you should just not take 4BL till senior year if it’s not required for anything. Chem 153A isn’t hard persay, but memorizing/understanding material takes a bit of work and a lot of time. Engineering ethics will take time too, since there’s at least 20 pages of written material needed.</p>
<p>Yeah no. If you have your heart set on taking at least 4 classes, you most definitely need to decide between Eng183 and Physics 4BL but do not even <em>think</em> about taking them together. You will seriously hate yourself the nights before those reports/papers are due. Even if you don’t care about them, you’ll still find yourself logging serious hours for those classes and if you know Chem’s gonna be hard…well then…</p>
<p>Suppose you decided to take eng183, if you were really gung ho about it from the beginning, perhaps you could get an early start on the mini papers your first week and have them done before your quarter gets really crazy (and perhaps, if you’re really motivated, finish your part of the research paper). Then you’d be down to just worrying about 3 classes. The thing about 4BL is that you have to deal with lab itself for 3 freakin hours on TOP of the lab reports. Eng183…lectures are pretty useless and you can just do hw for another class in it.</p>
<p>I think you should drop 183EW, as you are only a 2nd year. I would say so because lots of people take courses like these before they understand what engineering is about. You sometimes miss some of the meaning when you take ethics early on. After some coursework in your department and maybe some more experience in engineering (internship or research), I think you will understand more of why you have to take the course. That’s why the description prefers you are a junior or senior undergrad to enroll.</p>
<p>I would also think about dropping Physics 4BL, but take that back because most people need to move on. I agree with what Deuces say, kind of, that the class should be delayed. I think 3rd year Fall is the best time in my opinion to take it if only UCLA’s curriculum is flexible. But that would put you behind, so just take it now. I say take it later because there are lots of experiments and concepts that 1st/2nd year students don’t know about and you don’t understand, yet they are just repeating what the TA does in the lab. Lots of people don’t know what’s going on, and yet they write BS pages of lab reports and get an A. I think more coursework, especially in Circuit Analysis, will definitely help understand what is going on in the lab.</p>
<p>It’s crazy … in 4BL you can ask someone who got an ‘A’ how to even set up a simple RC circuit and measure the voltage across the capacitor with an O-scope … and he/she might not be able to do it!</p>
<p>hey can you guys look at something for me?
i’m an aerospace major, pretty solid 1st quarter under my belt</p>
<p>this is my winter quarter:
math 32b
chem 20b
chem 20L
physics 1a (corbin)</p>
<p>how’s that for a schedule? i’m basically following that planned schedule from the back of the engineering catalog</p>
<p>but my real question is spring quarter:
i’m looking at:
math 33a
physics 1b
physics 1al
cs 31</p>
<p>I’m worried about having a lab AND the cs class? too much? should I just jump up to my first MAE class? (sorry i forgot the name of that class)
basically, I don’t want to use another GE just yet and since I got out that first writing req and some math classes, I have to go with something like this???</p>
<p>I’m not sure if there is any benefit of double-counting towards the “Breadth” requirements for M.S. You still have to take 9 courses (pre-lim exam option), so most likely, you will need to replace the upper divison course with another one of choice.</p>
<p>Another comment is I don’t know if getting an M.S in one year is very flexible. I’ve heard 3 M.S courses is a huge load … not sure about that … sure you can work hard, but sometimes the courses are sequenced. Can anyone answer what the average M.S courseload is?</p>