Which schedule or option would you pick

[bottlecap1990]

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Hi I will be starting a spring semester next week and I need to make a decision FAST. I need to take a college trigonometry class and I have two option in when two take them

First option:
Monday and Wednesday, from 4-5.45 pm. I will also be taking two other classes the morning and night of these two days. From 10-11.45 and 1-4 pm on monday and and10-11.45 am and 6-7.45 pm on wednesday. I will HAVE TO RUSH to get to my next class.

Second option:
Saturday ONLY but from 8.30-12.15 pm (3 hours 45 minutes) but most likely a 15 minute break will be given, so at the end it would be the same as the first option in terms of duration. I don't have anything to do on this day except I have to work from 2-6 pm.

My heart really wants me to do the second option but that 3 hours 45 minutes really make me think twice. I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast. I don't think I will be bored since its a math class and you will be doing work instead of just listening. Unlike history or psychology where you just listen to the lecturer talks for the whole period.

To be honest I don't really care if its a saturday because I know that my schedule will get tougher down the road and I think this will be a good practice to sacrifice one day of the weekend😳. Plus I am off all day on friday.


In addition, I checked the professor for both of these options. The professor in the first option has never been rated. The second professor has good ratings from ratemyprofessor.

The rest of my classes are General Biology 1 and lab, Chem 102 and lab, and english 102.

 

[crazybob]

Hi I will be starting a spring semester next week and I need to make a decision FAST. I need to take a college trigonometry class and I have two option in when two take them

First option:
Monday and Wednesday, from 6.00-7.45 pm. I will also be taking two other classes the morning of these two days. From 10-11.45 and 1-4 pm.

Second option:
Saturday ONLY but from 8.30-12.15 pm (3 hours 45 minutes) but most likely a 15 minute break will be given, so at the end it would be the same as the first option in terms of duration. I don't have anything to do on this day except I have to work from 2-6 pm.

My heart really wants me to do the second option but that 3 hours 45 minutes really make me think twice. I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast. I don't think I will be bored since its a math class and you will be doing work instead of just listening. Unlike history or psychology where you just listen to the lecturer talks for the whole period.

To be honest I don't really care if its a saturday because I know that my schedule will get tougher down the road and I think this will be a good practice to sacrifice one day of the weekend😳. Plus I am off all day on friday.


In addition, I checked the professor for both of these options. The professor in the first option has never been rated. The second professor has good ratings from ratemyprofessor.

The rest of my classes are General Biology 1 and lab, Chem 102 and lab, and english 102.

I would recommend taking the class in the evening when you are still very awake and can concentrate. If you think you will be tired before the class, then get some coffee before going to class. Twice a week sounds a lot better than almost 4 hours on a saturday. Going from class to work until 6 will make saturdays extremely long for you, unless you find friends in there very quickly. If you don't know anyone, you'll just be sitting in class wondering when you are going to get out.

 

[pharm B]

I second the idea of taking the twice-weekly class. If you only attend class once a week for such a long period of time, you're going to be covering a lot of material each day. Trig's not a hard subject, but if you don't keep up, a long class could leave you clueless in the dust.

 

[Passion4Sci]

I would recommend taking the class in the evening when you are still very awake and can concentrate. If you think you will be tired before the class, then get some coffee before going to class. Twice a week sounds a lot better than almost 4 hours on a saturday. Going from class to work until 6 will make saturdays extremely long for you, unless you find friends in there very quickly. If you don't know anyone, you'll just be sitting in class wondering when you are going to get out.

Then he can make friends. Wow, that was hard! 😛

OP, a statement like this one: " I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast." would normally be taken as a positive, but it sounds in this case like it's a negative. If that IS the case, I think you should go with the 2nd option.

Crazy 'n' PharmB are both telling you what they would do based on their own desires/preferences (Making friends or being bored, or getting left in the dust[Counter-Point: Office Hours exist for a reason]). In contrast, you feel it would be a good practice at sacrifice (a commendable sentiment), and that your heart really wants to do the Saturday class. Additionally, the professor in the 2nd option is a known quantity, that is, he is rated and has good ratings. The professor in the 1st option is unrated and therefore could be new, which is not always a good thing in a teacher, and thus I conclude that the 2nd option would be the best for you.

 

[crazybob]

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Then he can make friends. Wow, that was hard! 😛

OP, a statement like this one: " I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast." would normally be taken as a positive, but it sounds in this case like it's a negative. If that IS the case, I think you should go with the 2nd option.

Crazy 'n' PharmB are both telling you what they would do based on their own desires/preferences (Making friends or being bored, or getting left in the dust[Counter-Point: Office Hours exist for a reason]). In contrast, you feel it would be a good practice at sacrifice (a commendable sentiment), and that your heart really wants to do the Saturday class. Additionally, the professor in the 2nd option is a known quantity, that is, he is rated and has good ratings. The professor in the 1st option is unrated and therefore could be new, which is not always a good thing in a teacher, and thus I conclude that the 2nd option would be the best for you.

For most people, the 2nd option would be the best since the professor has the best ratings. But I have had instructors who were rated high, but I thought they were just ok. It would depend on the OP's learning style and the OP's compatibility with the teacher's methods.

New professors are always not that bad (even though some are really difficult and confusing). But the OP can get a new perspective on the same subject and might learn a little better if the focus or specialty of the professor is in an interesting topic.

 

[Carboxide]

Hi I will be starting a spring semester next week and I need to make a decision FAST. I need to take a college trigonometry class and I have two option in when two take them

First option:
Monday and Wednesday, from 4-5.45 pm. I will also be taking two other classes the morning and night of these two days. From 10-11.45 and 1-4 pm on monday and and10-11.45 am and 6-7.45 pm on wednesday. I will HAVE TO RUSH to get to my next class.

Second option:
Saturday ONLY but from 8.30-12.15 pm (3 hours 45 minutes) but most likely a 15 minute break will be given, so at the end it would be the same as the first option in terms of duration. I don't have anything to do on this day except I have to work from 2-6 pm.

My heart really wants me to do the second option but that 3 hours 45 minutes really make me think twice. I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast. I don't think I will be bored since its a math class and you will be doing work instead of just listening. Unlike history or psychology where you just listen to the lecturer talks for the whole period.

To be honest I don't really care if its a saturday because I know that my schedule will get tougher down the road and I think this will be a good practice to sacrifice one day of the weekend😳. Plus I am off all day on friday.


In addition, I checked the professor for both of these options. The professor in the first option has never been rated. The second professor has good ratings from ratemyprofessor.

The rest of my classes are General Biology 1 and lab, Chem 102 and lab, and english 102.

Definitely the first option. It's pretty standard to go for that length of time a day. As you get farther into the pre-reqs you will be doing that probably every semester. I wouldn't do the Saturday class.

 

[Canes]

Hi I will be starting a spring semester next week and I need to make a decision FAST. I need to take a college trigonometry class and I have two option in when two take them

First option:
Monday and Wednesday, from 4-5.45 pm. I will also be taking two other classes the morning and night of these two days. From 10-11.45 and 1-4 pm on monday and and10-11.45 am and 6-7.45 pm on wednesday. I will HAVE TO RUSH to get to my next class.

Second option:
Saturday ONLY but from 8.30-12.15 pm (3 hours 45 minutes) but most likely a 15 minute break will be given, so at the end it would be the same as the first option in terms of duration. I don't have anything to do on this day except I have to work from 2-6 pm.

My heart really wants me to do the second option but that 3 hours 45 minutes really make me think twice. I had the first option last semester and I felt like the time really went by fast. I don't think I will be bored since its a math class and you will be doing work instead of just listening. Unlike history or psychology where you just listen to the lecturer talks for the whole period.

To be honest I don't really care if its a saturday because I know that my schedule will get tougher down the road and I think this will be a good practice to sacrifice one day of the weekend😳. Plus I am off all day on friday.


In addition, I checked the professor for both of these options. The professor in the first option has never been rated. The second professor has good ratings from ratemyprofessor.

The rest of my classes are General Biology 1 and lab, Chem 102 and lab, and english 102.

3hrs15 isnt bad. Had a physics course, met once a week---from 9a.m to 2:40p.m BUt it worked out perfect for ME b/c I didnt have that class in mind til thurs or so and gave me some time to focus on my other classes. Like Passion4Sci said, you'll have to go w/ the one that best works w/ your schedule.....keep in mind that you're doing labs and some of those labs may weekend work, which may conflict w/ trig exam or something.

 

[Passion4Sci]

3hrs15 isnt bad. Had a physics course, met once a week---from 9a.m to 2:40p.m BUt it worked out perfect for ME b/c I didnt have that class in mind til thurs or so and gave me some time to focus on my other classes. Like Passion4Sci said, you'll have to go w/ the one that best works w/ your schedule.....keep in mind that you're doing labs and some of those labs may weekend work, which may conflict w/ trig exam or something.

Maybe your undergraduate was way harder-core than mine, but I can't recall a single time when going in on Saturday was needed or even suggested... Not that it's impossible, but the likelihood seems about the same as December 21, 2012 heralding "a new age of Humanity." It's not like OP is running gels, s/he is taking General Bio and Chemistry 102, which in my neck of the woods is still inorganic/basic.

 

[Canes]

Maybe your undergraduate was way harder-core than mine, but I can't recall a single time when going in on Saturday was needed or even suggested... Not that it's impossible, but the likelihood seems about the same as December 21, 2012 heralding "a new age of Humanity." It's not like OP is running gels, s/he is taking General Bio and Chemistry 102, which in my neck of the woods is still inorganic/basic.

Like you said 'they would do based on their own desires/preferences' comes down to circumstances. The OP obviously has a choice.....some of us choose to chuckle at the 2012 idea 🙂

 

[Passion4Sci]

Like you said 'they would do based on their own desires/preferences' comes down to circumstances. The OP obviously has a choice.....some of us choose to chuckle at the 2012 idea 🙂

Not entirely sure of the relevance of the quote.

I merely pointed out that it's pretty much impossible for one class to obligate a student to contradict another of his/her classes for something to be done in class.

Tell me, when you were in BASIC Biology and BASIC Chemistry, what you could possibly need to come in on Saturday to finish/work on? Just curious.

I based my advice on OP's criteria, not mine. You presented an almost other-worldly scenario which might cause the OP to question his/her own desires and seems quite a bit like you missed the fact that OP is in basic courses.

But, whatever. =]

 

[Canes]

Not entirely sure of the relevance of the quote.

I merely pointed out that it's pretty much impossible for one class to obligate a student to contradict another of his/her classes for something to be done in class.

Tell me, when you were in BASIC Biology and BASIC Chemistry, what you could possibly need to come in on Saturday to finish/work on? Just curious.

I based my advice on OP's criteria, not mine. You presented an almost other-worldly scenario which might cause the OP to question his/her own desires and seems quite a bit like you missed the fact that OP is in basic courses.

But, whatever. =]

You started off by saying THEY'RE telling you what THEY'D do and is slowly making your way into suggesting one over the other--however indirect it may be. Btw, out of curiousity--just b/c you or say I didnt need some time to come in on saturday and finish up some basic chem/bio, does that mean no one should require time?

 

[crazybob]

You started off by saying THEY'RE telling you what THEY'D do and is slowly making your way into suggesting one over the other--however indirect it may be. Btw, out of curiousity--just b/c you or say I didnt need some time to come in on saturday and finish up some basic chem/bio, does that mean no one should require time?

All he meant was that it's very uncommon to have those courses require a student to come in on a saturday to do some coursework or lab work.

 

[Passion4Sci]

You started off by saying THEY'RE telling you what THEY'D do and is slowly making your way into suggesting one over the other--however indirect it may be. Btw, out of curiousity--just b/c you or say I didnt need some time to come in on saturday and finish up some basic chem/bio, does that mean no one should require time?

It wasn't direct or indirect - Based on OP's own feelings, that is how I set out my advice. If you're choosing to read inference into my post, that's your own problem.

does that mean no one should require time

You messed up your article/subject in this sentence but what I think you're trying to ask is whether OP might need to come in on Saturday to work on a lab. If OP has an exam on a given Saturday, then OP cannot be asked to finish a lab at this time. OP will have Monday and Wednesday (And Tuesday, and Thursday, and Friday) to finish his or her labs, if that's the case, and the possibility of something magically conflicting with another scheduled course is a ludicrous thing to even plan for. Undergraduate courses are geared to baby the undergraduate through, even at the toughest and most rigorous of institutions. Scheduling conflicts are carefully avoided, and experiments carefully planned, to that end.

Stop and think, just for a minute, how absolutely absurd it'd be if you were to try to plan for every little thing that might happen in a lab to possibly require extra time. You'd be slating in 3 hour breaks every day, just in case... And again, the question to which you not-so expertly dodged... Harken yourself back to your basic biology and basic chemistry classes. Now, tell me, what experiments were there that could even conceivably require longer than the class time? Honestly, think about that. A Stoich lab? An acid-base lab?

I would take the class during the week because I like to stack my weekdays and then leave the weekend for working. That's my own personal opinion that you'll note I completely left absent from my response to OP.

Now answer the question. Basic Bio and Basic Chem. What lab in your classes required more than a week's worth of time (Or just Thursday and Friday, assuming the lab is started on the Wednesday lab time)?

 

[Passion4Sci]

All he meant was that it's very uncommon to have those courses require a student to come in on a saturday to do some coursework or lab work.

Was it so difficult to understand that it had to be paraphrased?

I guess so... but thanks Bob. 😳

 

[Canes]

All he meant was that it's very uncommon to have those courses require a student to come in on a saturday to do some coursework or lab work.

I didnt actually mean having students come in to do labs---I was merely speaking in terms of the work, say a lab reports and so forth. Guess I should've said 'lab reports' instead of just mentioning lab. BUT, some classes do have a weekend labs, true, uncommon but wouldnt totally take it off of the table tho.

 

[Canes]

It wasn't direct or indirect - Based on OP's own feelings, that is how I set out my advice. If you're choosing to read inference into my post, that's your own problem.

You messed up your article/subject in this sentence but what I think you're trying to ask is whether OP might need to come in on Saturday to work on a lab. If OP has an exam on a given Saturday, then OP cannot be asked to finish a lab at this time. OP will have Monday and Wednesday (And Tuesday, and Thursday, and Friday) to finish his or her labs, if that's the case, and the possibility of something magically conflicting with another scheduled course is a ludicrous thing to even plan for. Undergraduate courses are geared to baby the undergraduate through, even at the toughest and most rigorous of institutions. Scheduling conflicts are carefully avoided, and experiments carefully planned, to that end.

Stop and think, just for a minute, how absolutely absurd it'd be if you were to try to plan for every little thing that might happen in a lab to possibly require extra time. You'd be slating in 3 hour breaks every day, just in case... And again, the question to which you not-so expertly dodged... Harken yourself back to your basic biology and basic chemistry classes. Now, tell me, what experiments were there that could even conceivably require longer than the class time? Honestly, think about that. A Stoich lab? An acid-base lab?

I would take the class during the week because I like to stack my weekdays and then leave the weekend for working. That's my own personal opinion that you'll note I completely left absent from my response to OP.

Now answer the question. Basic Bio and Basic Chem. What lab in your classes required more than a week's worth of time (Or just Thursday and Friday, assuming the lab is started on the Wednesday lab time)?

Considering the OP never mentioned the lab/s being taught during the weekend lol I believe the class in discussion is trig and whether to take it on m/w or sats. That being said, I didnt bother in assuming classes conflicting or what-not. I was talking from the perspective of work that may carry over onto the weekend, not running experiments, but say write-up or research.