Comments on my Fall 2011 Schedule?

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Hi! I'm a rising sophomore and I would like some opinions on my schedule for next semester. I think it's a medium load, but i'm scared that my other commitments next semester, i.e. research for 5 hrs/wk at a center, college ambassador and shadowing, will stress me out.

Experimental Design & Biological Statistics (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I Lab (1 cr)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Taxonomy (3 cr)
Lab Practical (2 cr)
Victorian England History (4 cr)

Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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This probably wont be as helpful as you are looking for, but your signature is the motto I live and die by! (pun intended)
 
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EphemeralRose3 said:
Hi! I'm a rising sophomore and I would like some opinions on my schedule for next semester. I think it's a medium load, but i'm scared that my other commitments next semester, i.e. research for 5 hrs/wk at a center, college ambassador and shadowing, will stress me out.

Experimental Design & Biological Statistics (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I Lab (1 cr)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Taxonomy (3 cr)
Lab Practical (2 cr)
Victorian England History (4 cr)

Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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Depending on how you faired your first year, this doesn't look terrible. It's only 16 hours. Statistics can be challenging and Organic is organic. The only thing I might consider switching is the stats for some other bio----though I don't know how intensive Bio statistics is. I took Organics with an upper Bio and Physics, and I'm hardly the brightest apple in the bushel.
 
Research/Statistics can be pretty boring at times, but overall not too hard.

Insert usual spiel about time-management and not falling behind in Orgo.

Ecology is usually an easy A type of class.

The last class just sounds fun :)
 
EphemeralRose3 said:
Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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For Organic, do tons of practice problems, make note cards out of Reactions, and make sure you LEARN Organic I. Organic I took hours upon hours for me to do well in. Organic II was cake afterwards.
 
Thank you all ! :)

I think I'm just freaking out because I haven't been in school for over two months, and my typical neurosis is kicking in.
 
EphemeralRose3 said:
Hi! I'm a rising sophomore and I would like some opinions on my schedule for next semester. I think it's a medium load, but i'm scared that my other commitments next semester, i.e. research for 5 hrs/wk at a center, college ambassador and shadowing, will stress me out.


Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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Whoa, research for all of 5 hours/wk next semester? Don't get ahead of yourself you big future doc you!
 
you should be fine just don't fall behind in your classes, especially organic. stay on top of the ball and enjoy college
 
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Your schedule looks fine. :luck:
 
If you want to get ahead in orgo have your functional groups memorized by the first day of class. This will make the first few weeks much easier for you. All you need to do is just look at a list in most orgo books for about 15 minutes a day.
 
Organic I is awesome, helps having a nice professor, but it will take some time getting used to it. A lot of information, practice, etc. and don't fall behind! It's very doable and you definitely get a rewarding feeling with the grades. Make sure to register with a good professor, makes the class significantly that more interesting, worthwhile, and I guess easier to understand.

Statics can be a major bitch however. It's alright, from my experience it was a lot of data and chart reading. Not necessarily difficult in the material, but can be somewhat exhausting if you are simply not a fan of that sort of stuff. Basically it's okay. I did however take the "regular" statics course, it wasn't geared towards sciences or anything, so maybe my opinion might be off a bit.

Everything else looks fine and like normal course load. I don't have experience with college-level history classes, but assuming it's an "introductory" class, those are usually pretty easy and will strength your overall GPA.
 
MeowMeowCAT said:
Organic I is awesome, helps having a nice professor, but it will take some time getting used to it. A lot of information, practice, etc. and don't fall behind! It's very doable and you definitely get a rewarding feeling with the grades. Make sure to register with a good professor, makes the class significantly that more interesting, worthwhile, and I guess easier to understand.

Statics can be a major bitch however. It's alright, from my experience it was a lot of data and chart reading. Not necessarily difficult in the material, but can be somewhat exhausting if you are simply not a fan of that sort of stuff. Basically it's okay. I did however take the "regular" statics course, it wasn't geared towards sciences or anything, so maybe my opinion might be off a bit.

Everything else looks fine and like normal course load. I don't have experience with college-level history classes, but assuming it's an "introductory" class, those are usually pretty easy and will strength your overall GPA.
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Thanks so much for your tips!
 
Seems very doable. You could probably even add a class if you wanted to challenge yourself a bit or show schools you can handle a tough workload. At this point, it's a pretty average one; I think you should be quite fine.
 
music2doc said:
Seems very doable. You could probably even add a class if you wanted to challenge yourself a bit or show schools you can handle a tough workload. At this point, it's a pretty average one; I think you should be quite fine.
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There is about a week or two Add/Drop period. If I think I can handle another class, I will. Probably adding Childhood Psychology. Thanks for your advice.
 
Psychology is a nice class too. Makes you realize how the littlest things can mess you up for the rest of your life.
 
MSU2009 said:
Research/Statistics can be pretty boring at times, but overall not too hard.

Insert usual spiel about time-management and not falling behind in Orgo.

Ecology is usually an easy A type of class. :mad:

The last class just sounds fun :)
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Ecology is considered one of the hardest classes at my school because you have to go on so many out-of class field trips and then analyze hundreds of samples you collect in the field, but at other schools that is not the case. At my school, genetics is considered one of the "easier" courses, but I know that at some other colleges it is completely opposite. No one on this forum can really tell you if the class will be easy or hard, that simply depends on your school. Ask around, check ratemyprof for your classes. But I think we all can agree that falling behind in Orgo is not a good idea. Cramming just doesn't work for that class (unless you review the material regularly, then studying 2-3 days in advance is not going to be too hard).
 
EphemeralRose3 said:
Hi! I'm a rising sophomore and I would like some opinions on my schedule for next semester. I think it's a medium load, but i'm scared that my other commitments next semester, i.e. research for 5 hrs/wk at a center, college ambassador and shadowing, will stress me out.

Experimental Design & Biological Statistics (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I Lab (1 cr)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Taxonomy (3 cr)
Lab Practical (2 cr)
Victorian England History (4 cr)

Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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it's all good
 
EphemeralRose3 said:
Hi! I'm a rising sophomore and I would like some opinions on my schedule for next semester. I think it's a medium load, but i'm scared that my other commitments next semester, i.e. research for 5 hrs/wk at a center, college ambassador and shadowing, will stress me out.

Experimental Design & Biological Statistics (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I (3 cr)
Organic Chemistry I Lab (1 cr)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Taxonomy (3 cr)
Lab Practical (2 cr)
Victorian England History (4 cr)

Any time management/study tips will also help tremendously! Thank you :) :love:
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(Just an opinion) But I think you should stay away from O-chem lab until you complete all of your o-chem series. Iono how it is for your school, but at my school there was a lot of overlap and I know I would not have been able to do well in my o-chem lab if I had take it concurrently with o-chem.

EDIT: I go to a UC (quarter system) so iono if that makes a difference to what I'd recommend.
 
JESSFALLING said:
Just curious why V.E. History is 4 units? It sounds fun...but it also sounds like it could be one of those giant term paper classes...:eek:
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LOL Yes, it is! I was surprised to see people thinking it was easy.. It's actually not- the professor is tough. I'm worried most about this class, but, unfortunately, I need to take it (It satisfies three general education requirements in my school - too good to be true haha).
 
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