<p>Against … my plan of being overly social and doing too much? Yeah, it doesn’t seem too realistic now…</p>
<p>:) Still, I’m sure PhD was a lot harder than bachelor. I’ll try to squeeze in as much as I can without being too overwhelmed. I cannot stand just doing work 24/7 and not having a social life or even time to myself. It would drive me crazy.</p>
<p>Meng,</p>
<p>I would just advise you to actually wait till you’ve experienced your first semester at UIUC to make a good judgment about the kind of free time/social life you will have. Just go with the flow. I had heard a lot of the same things you’re hearing now. But from my first semester experience, I can say that though courses were difficult, there was still plenty of free time even though half of my courses were sophomore level. Honestly, I never really felt like my academic life has been that much different from any of the other people I know in other colleges/units. Maybe I’m just weird? But really, after you come here you’ll get a good idea of how much time you’ll need and how much free time you’ll have, and you can work around those factors to accommodate the other things you want to do.</p>
<p>Or just incredibly smart? I suppose the best way to do this is to try it out. Of course you want to know before you get into it so you can “plan” around factors. There is no real way of knowing since everyone is pretty much different neh?</p>
<p>Hey if you want to join a sorority there is no on saying that once you start the process you have to finish. If you are interested in Greek go to the first night (the one where all the girls walk around in groups and go to each house [and listen to 20-50 girls jump up and down and chant the sorority slogan and tell you about their events] to select 10 of them) and see what you like and the sororities will give you schedules for events and see if you think you can manage them with all of your other commitments. You will also meet a lot of different people that night too. I want to go Greek but my commitments are tying me down this semester so I am waiting til next year (plus you have to find the right frat yourself, you aren’t given a guided tour). Being social is also a part of where you live. It is hard to be social at some dorms rather than others. So good luck next year. You are smart. I don’t know much about CompE girls but there are a lot of Chem E girls and I would say a decent number are in sororities and Chem E is as hard as Comp E so whatever you think you have time for is what counts.</p>