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I've just started my third undergraduate year at Georgia Tech as an AE major. My classes this semester are:
High-Speed Aerodynamics
Jet and Rocket Propulsion
System Dynamics and Control
AE Vehicle Performance
Structures Laboratory
System Dynamics and Controls is supposedly the most difficult class in the program here. I can believe it; on the first day we went over Laplace transforms again and I realized I had completely forgotten nearly everything about them. If the rest of the class is like this (i.e. spontaneously invoking obscure and forgotten mathematical concepts) then it's going to be a loooong semester.
Also, "Structures Laboratory" is worth one credit hour, but requires as much class time per week as System Dynamics and Controls. What the hell?
I just started my freshman year at Cornell on the 23rd.
Financial Accounting
Introduction to Hotel Operations
Business Computing
Distinguished Lectures in Hospitality
Psych 101
Medieval 103- Legend: Heroes vs Villains, an Anglo-Saxon view. (Freshman writing seminar, 4th choice)
Do you go to the Hotel School
That seems pretty cool
I visited Cornell, and got in, but Engineering, but the Hotel School seemed pretty cool
They got a nice Hotel there
And you guys have a wine tasting class that you can do when you're under 21
And pretty good food
Baller
Yeah I'm a Hotelie. It is pretty cool, obviously it's early in but I like it a lot. I think I'm working at the Statler, the hotel, next semester. Yeah dude Wines is famous here, I think I'm taking it next year.
I started community college here this week. It is worse than I thought, high school 2.0, but I guess I am getting the credit so I can't complain...just most of the kids don't even speak English (South Florida)
taking college algebra (my bane), intro to poli-sci, Composition, and photography
Starting my senior year next Tuesday (as in the first week of September, not this upcoming week).
Wonderful World of Plants with Lab (yay requirements!)
Video Game Design (new teacher means I can retake the course and still have it count, whoo!)
World Media
World War I
Something else, likely media related (I'm hoping I can get into a scriptwriting or storyboarding class)
Total is 20 hours, and I'll be putting in 10 hours a week at the library's writing center. On top of that I'll be running video game events for the school's anime club every week and running RPG games every weekend.
Goddamn I love college. I do a shit ton of stuff and I'm busy like all the time which is such an improvement over my home life it's unreal. I move in next Sunday and I just can't wait.
This is looking like my final year of University, and I think it's about damn time. (I'm 25)
I'm taking my last political science class for my major, and all I have left is a couple of electives, my language credit, and a few classes for my minor.
I've got 20 credit hours. Present me hates past me.
Nazi Germany
Critical Approach to Fiction
Fundamentals of Philosophy
Philosophy/Elementary Statistic Reasoning
Collective Behavior
The Nazi class should be good, it's being taught by a well known guy, I guess, Norman Goda. I loaded up this quarter because I took like 2 of my sophomore journalism classes as a freshman. Now I get to get all of these general classes out of the way.
Wait, you go to OU?! I had Nazi Germany my sophomore year, and Gouda's fucking awesome. He keeps it interesting and the class is just awesome in about every regard I can think of.
lets see, This is my first year at University (UCF, woo), but I have 65 credits and a AA coming into it fresh out of high-school. So I am technically a sophomore or a junior.
This Semester:
General Chem 2
General Chem 2 lab
General Anthropology
World Political Geography
College Trigonomtry
Engineering Survey thing
I am all over the place, dont need any gen ed classes and dont know what i want to major in, but am leaning towards chemistry. And chem dudes up in here with advice?
lets see, This is my first year at University (UCF, woo), but I have 65 credits and a AA coming into it fresh out of high-school. So I am technically a sophomore or a junior.
This Semester:
General Chem 2
General Chem 2 lab
General Anthropology
World Political Geography
College Trigonomtry
Engineering Survey thing
I am all over the place, dont need any gen ed classes and dont know what i want to major in, but am leaning towards chemistry. And chem dudes up in here with advice?
Take organic chem, then see if you still like chemistry
lets see, This is my first year at University (UCF, woo), but I have 65 credits and a AA coming into it fresh out of high-school. So I am technically a sophomore or a junior.
This Semester:
General Chem 2
General Chem 2 lab
General Anthropology
World Political Geography
College Trigonomtry
Engineering Survey thing
I am all over the place, dont need any gen ed classes and dont know what i want to major in, but am leaning towards chemistry. And chem dudes up in here with advice?
Take organic chem, then see if you still like chemistry
I'm moving in to SCAD's Atlanta branch on September 7th.
My best friend since I was about ten years old is going to SCAD Atlanta for Graduate School in Photography. I'd never even heard of the school, but he seems to really like it. What are you going for?
I have heard of PDE and butt raping used in the same sentence often before
I have this to look forward to
Yeah, I've heard that PDE is pretty rough as well - much harder than ODE. Luckily my math requirements end with ODE and Statistical Inference, so I don't have to worry about the partials course. Which is a good thing, because there is probably no way I would pass it.
I'm returning to highschool for one more semester to upgrade my marks, even though I've technically already graduated. It's probably a bad sign I don't remember the names of any of my courses...
Goddamn for once I am glad to be going back to study- University in my case. Have spent all summer working, not to earn money, no, but to fill up the hole in my finances thanks to the UK systems of student monies. Gah. And also being a long way away from my boyfriend and most of my other friends.
On a Visual communications (Illustration, with some Graphics and Animation) course, and this year I do:
Life Drawing
Creative processes (dunno wtf that'll be)
Web publishing
Motion Graphics
Creative writing (Rather than art history bollocks)
Character Design
and a few other spiffy things I've forgotten about!
Plus, I shall be living in a shared house with several awesome people, rather than a shoddy Hall of Residence like last year. And the area I'll be in is awesomely studenty, with a pub that does a 3-course meal for £2.50
lets see, This is my first year at University (UCF, woo), but I have 65 credits and a AA coming into it fresh out of high-school. So I am technically a sophomore or a junior.
This Semester:
General Chem 2
General Chem 2 lab
General Anthropology
World Political Geography
College Trigonomtry
Engineering Survey thing
I am all over the place, dont need any gen ed classes and dont know what i want to major in, but am leaning towards chemistry. And chem dudes up in here with advice?
Take organic chem, then see if you still like chemistry
One of my friends took pharmaceutical toxicology in University.... shit man, some of the courses he took were absolutely brutal. Analytical Chemistry I think is one of the worst courses you can take in any program.
His program was easily as hard as the hardest engineering programs.
One of my friends took pharmaceutical toxicology in University.... shit man, some of the courses he took were absolutely brutal. Analytical Chemistry I think is one of the worst courses you can take in any program.
His program was easily as hard as the hardest engineering programs.
I have to give mad props to Chemistry-related majors like that. My degree is difficult, but I don't think it's anything close to even a BS in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, much less the stuff like you mentioned. You couldn't pay me all the money in the world to become a Chemistry major.
I guess some people are more naturally inclined to do well in Chemistry, but for me its akin to banging my head against a brick wall repeatedly.
I took an Intensive Gen chem class cuz I was allowed to cuz of APs plus placement test (could've taken Freshman Orgo, which is Orgo just for Freshman, but I was like eff that)
Yea, well, Intensive Gen chem was like Physical Chemistry light
And it was total rape
I got a 40% in that class
One of several reasons I was like, fuck biomedical engineering
I start school on Monday, though I will be standing at the front of the room.
7th Pre-Algebra (9 kids)
9th/10th Geometry (9 kids)
11th Pre-Calculus (5 kids)
12th AP Calculus AB (6 kids)
This is my 4th year, and I've had 5 classes every prior year. That coupled with the small classes this year makes for what should be an awesome year.
That seems pretty damn good. Those are tiny classes.
Do you work during the summer? Because that long ass break is a nice reason to be a teacher. Though I guess you might need the money.
Teaching at a small, private school is a double-edged sword. Your classes are generally small, but because the school is small, you have no repetition of classes at all. The other math teacher gets the smart, motivated high school kids (the majority of each grade). I get left with the kids who are either lazy or not naturally good mathematicians. Sometimes frustrating, but the smaller class sizes are nice.
My school spreads my pay out over the entire year. I really should work during the summer, but I haven't done so in any of my 3 summers so far. I'm thinking of staying somewhere in Europe next summer. This summer I spent 1 week at a teaching workshop and took two one week trips (home to see the folks and Bay Area to see friends). Aside from that I read a lot and went to the bar (too) frequently.
Man, my schedule is hells of easy compared to most of you bastards. Although, it's my first semester at college, and seeing as how I bombed my junior year of highschool (I would be a senior this year, but I got a GED instead) and had some really intense motivation issues stemming from clinical depression, I figured I might as well start off slow.
1. Western Civ through Reformation
2. Politics of Gender
3. Philosophy of Modern Political Thought
4. Precalculus.
I actually took Precalc sophomore year, but this past year I flunked AP Calc A. Twice. I just flat out didn't do the work at all. So, basically, I'm super rusty with my math skills, and the placement test I took put me in Precalc.
It's kind of humiliating to take a class over, especially since so much of my self-image is built on being a superior asshole to most people, but I think it's honestly better for me rather than struggling through Calc I and giving up on math altogether.
At least this way I'm keeping doors open for computer programming, etc.
Yeah, well, Lin Alg at my school isn't a pre-req for ODE, usually people take them at the same time or ODE first, so I don't think I'll need to remember much/any Ling Alg for ODE that I can't learn again. The worst part about Linear Algebra was just all these terrible proofs of the tiniest things...
Apparently last semester so many kids were cheating in the ODE class at my school... ruined the curve. People were taking other people's HWs and changing the names or during the final, hiding the textbook in a trashcan and going to the bathroom or something... absurd stories I was told.
It really bothers me when people cheat, especially since the school I go to is so damn expensive. It hurts everyone else, and you're not learning from it, and it's just a waste of your education.
Some people, right?
Columbia, eh?
Since I'm returning from medical leave, I have no idea what I'm taking, but likely something like this:
Intermediate Macro
Calc IV
CC
Spanish (level unknown, never took placement, likely 3)
And maybe if I can fit it in, another core class.
They won't even tell me where I'm living next year ( ( ( (, but hey, 21 year old sophomore!
I actually took Precalc sophomore year, but this past year I flunked AP Calc A. Twice. I just flat out didn't do the work at all. So, basically, I'm super rusty with my math skills, and the placement test I took put me in Precalc.
It's kind of humiliating to take a class over, especially since so much of my self-image is built on being a superior asshole to most people, but I think it's honestly better for me rather than struggling through Calc I and giving up on math altogether.
At least this way I'm keeping doors open for computer programming, etc.
Don't feel bad. I had to take College Algebra before I could take my first Calculus class because I had done so badly in Calculus in high school, and it was probably the best thing I could have possibly done. Thanks to that class, once I did get into Calculus, I was sailing through the Algebra parts of the class (which is, realistically, a huge chunk of it) while others who went straight into it from high school were struggling badly. There's such a huge push for people to skip the pre-req courses these days and go straight to the hard stuff - and if you can do it, that's great - but you definitely should not feel humiliated for wanting to be as prepared as possible for your future classes.
Ah McBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN (why do I think of the simpsons when I hear that name), well maybe we can chill when school starts up in full. Unfortunately I do not know if I have Sala-i-martin for macro, since I can't actually register for anything until 2 days before school due to coming off of medical leave (never do it, ever, ever ever ever ever ever ever). To make matters worse, I would actually be retaking part of intermed. macro, since I had to leave during school =\ (thanks mono!).
I actually took Precalc sophomore year, but this past year I flunked AP Calc A. Twice. I just flat out didn't do the work at all. So, basically, I'm super rusty with my math skills, and the placement test I took put me in Precalc.
It's kind of humiliating to take a class over, especially since so much of my self-image is built on being a superior asshole to most people, but I think it's honestly better for me rather than struggling through Calc I and giving up on math altogether.
At least this way I'm keeping doors open for computer programming, etc.
Don't feel bad. I had to take College Algebra before I could take my first Calculus class because I had done so badly in Calculus in high school, and it was probably the best thing I could have possibly done. Thanks to that class, once I did get into Calculus, I was sailing through the Algebra parts of the class (which is, realistically, a huge chunk of it) while others who went straight into it from high school were struggling badly. There's such a huge push for people to skip the pre-req courses these days and go straight to the hard stuff - and if you can do it, that's great - but you definitely should not feel humiliated for wanting to be as prepared as possible for your future classes.
Thanks. That definitely makes me feel better about doing it. I mean, if I'm truly honest with myself, it is the best course for me, simply because I really do need a refresher on a lot of those skills.
Also:
Two people here go to Columbia? I hate you fuckers. So much.
You do realize you go to the best school in the country, right? Oh man, I'm seething with bitterness/envy so hard right now, like you wouldn't even believe.
Starting my high school senior year on the 28th. Note, every single year I've gone to my school, actually starting during my freshman year, they've had a different scheduling system, as to how the classes run day-to-day. Yeah. They're kooks. Also, they tore down the old building and had a completely new one built, so I only had 2 years in one building and 2 in the other. I liked the old one better in most ways - the new building is absurdly big for our small town - but hey, asbestos, what can you do.
Anyway, about me in particular... I'm taking Psychology, Science in Society, Trig/Algebra Topics (WTF?), Chorus, obligatory PE class, and then my two one-semester English electives. Except for the fact that they stuck me in Public-fucking-Speaking for the first one. Which I did not choose at all. Second semester is Short Story, which I indeed chose myself. However, my guidance counselor is gonna get shit from me until I'm out of the first class, even if I have to change my whole schedule around and sacrifice my guaranteed daily Study Hall. Ugh.
Anyway, I'm hoping to pass and thus graduate and thus get the hell out. w00t?
I'm gonna be a Junior this Thursday. Yay me?
I can drive but not get good spots, don't have to take gym but I do have to take math, and also people I hate are going to be in my life again.
Oh well, at least I get to do this kickass Design & Illustration class (Which takes up half my day at another school, so only 4 classes for me, all year).
Introductory Chemistry
Introductory Physics
Calculus of One Variable
Introduction French Studies
Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Teaching and Curriculum
First year, Concurrent Education with a double major in Chemistry and Physics. I'm a little scared to say the least.
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High-Speed Aerodynamics
Jet and Rocket Propulsion
System Dynamics and Control
AE Vehicle Performance
Structures Laboratory
System Dynamics and Controls is supposedly the most difficult class in the program here. I can believe it; on the first day we went over Laplace transforms again and I realized I had completely forgotten nearly everything about them. If the rest of the class is like this (i.e. spontaneously invoking obscure and forgotten mathematical concepts) then it's going to be a loooong semester.
Also, "Structures Laboratory" is worth one credit hour, but requires as much class time per week as System Dynamics and Controls. What the hell?
1. Biotechnology
2. Biology
3. Intro to Psychology
4. Math 101 - lol
5. Intro to Philosophy
This is my first year of colleges. I'm super excited.
I just came back from orientation.
The cool part was the lecture!
Yeah I'm a Hotelie. It is pretty cool, obviously it's early in but I like it a lot. I think I'm working at the Statler, the hotel, next semester. Yeah dude Wines is famous here, I think I'm taking it next year.
taking college algebra (my bane), intro to poli-sci, Composition, and photography
Wonderful World of Plants with Lab (yay requirements!)
Video Game Design (new teacher means I can retake the course and still have it count, whoo!)
World Media
World War I
Something else, likely media related (I'm hoping I can get into a scriptwriting or storyboarding class)
Total is 20 hours, and I'll be putting in 10 hours a week at the library's writing center. On top of that I'll be running video game events for the school's anime club every week and running RPG games every weekend.
Goddamn I love college. I do a shit ton of stuff and I'm busy like all the time which is such an improvement over my home life it's unreal. I move in next Sunday and I just can't wait.
Ohio University, in case anyone was wondering.
I'm taking my last political science class for my major, and all I have left is a couple of electives, my language credit, and a few classes for my minor.
Then it's hopefully off to Law School.
Wait, you go to OU?! I had Nazi Germany my sophomore year, and Gouda's fucking awesome. He keeps it interesting and the class is just awesome in about every regard I can think of.
Agreed. ODE is the nice prep course that lowers your defenses so PDE can really rape you up the butt.
I'm hoping this London grad program will be kinda like college, so I can relive it for a little while longer.
I have heard of PDE and butt raping used in the same sentence often before
I have this to look forward to
This Semester:
General Chem 2
General Chem 2 lab
General Anthropology
World Political Geography
College Trigonomtry
Engineering Survey thing
I am all over the place, dont need any gen ed classes and dont know what i want to major in, but am leaning towards chemistry. And chem dudes up in here with advice?
Organic chem was kinda cool
All seeing how stuff fits together
-Monotheisms in Conflict
-Ideas of the Great Philosophers
-Intro to Comparative Government
-General Logic
Yeah, I've heard that PDE is pretty rough as well - much harder than ODE. Luckily my math requirements end with ODE and Statistical Inference, so I don't have to worry about the partials course. Which is a good thing, because there is probably no way I would pass it.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
On a Visual communications (Illustration, with some Graphics and Animation) course, and this year I do:
Life Drawing
Creative processes (dunno wtf that'll be)
Web publishing
Motion Graphics
Creative writing (Rather than art history bollocks)
Character Design
and a few other spiffy things I've forgotten about!
Plus, I shall be living in a shared house with several awesome people, rather than a shoddy Hall of Residence like last year. And the area I'll be in is awesomely studenty, with a pub that does a 3-course meal for £2.50
Joy!
that sounds pretty good
7th Pre-Algebra (9 kids)
9th/10th Geometry (9 kids)
11th Pre-Calculus (5 kids)
12th AP Calculus AB (6 kids)
This is my 4th year, and I've had 5 classes every prior year. That coupled with the small classes this year makes for what should be an awesome year.
One of my friends took pharmaceutical toxicology in University.... shit man, some of the courses he took were absolutely brutal. Analytical Chemistry I think is one of the worst courses you can take in any program.
His program was easily as hard as the hardest engineering programs.
Do you work during the summer? Because that long ass break is a nice reason to be a teacher. Though I guess you might need the money.
I guess some people are more naturally inclined to do well in Chemistry, but for me its akin to banging my head against a brick wall repeatedly.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Yea, well, Intensive Gen chem was like Physical Chemistry light
And it was total rape
I got a 40% in that class
One of several reasons I was like, fuck biomedical engineering
I am doing applied math
Teaching at a small, private school is a double-edged sword. Your classes are generally small, but because the school is small, you have no repetition of classes at all. The other math teacher gets the smart, motivated high school kids (the majority of each grade). I get left with the kids who are either lazy or not naturally good mathematicians. Sometimes frustrating, but the smaller class sizes are nice.
My school spreads my pay out over the entire year. I really should work during the summer, but I haven't done so in any of my 3 summers so far. I'm thinking of staying somewhere in Europe next summer. This summer I spent 1 week at a teaching workshop and took two one week trips (home to see the folks and Bay Area to see friends). Aside from that I read a lot and went to the bar (too) frequently.
1. Western Civ through Reformation
2. Politics of Gender
3. Philosophy of Modern Political Thought
4. Precalculus.
I actually took Precalc sophomore year, but this past year I flunked AP Calc A. Twice. I just flat out didn't do the work at all. So, basically, I'm super rusty with my math skills, and the placement test I took put me in Precalc.
It's kind of humiliating to take a class over, especially since so much of my self-image is built on being a superior asshole to most people, but I think it's honestly better for me rather than struggling through Calc I and giving up on math altogether.
At least this way I'm keeping doors open for computer programming, etc.
Columbia, eh?
Since I'm returning from medical leave, I have no idea what I'm taking, but likely something like this:
Intermediate Macro
Calc IV
CC
Spanish (level unknown, never took placement, likely 3)
And maybe if I can fit it in, another core class.
They won't even tell me where I'm living next year
yessir
do you have xavier sala-i-martin for macro?
because i had him first semester last year, and he was amazing. very amazing.
I'm in McBainnnnn
In that case Hi2u.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Ah McBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN (why do I think of the simpsons when I hear that name), well maybe we can chill when school starts up in full. Unfortunately I do not know if I have Sala-i-martin for macro, since I can't actually register for anything until 2 days before school due to coming off of medical leave (never do it, ever, ever ever ever ever ever ever). To make matters worse, I would actually be retaking part of intermed. macro, since I had to leave during school =\ (thanks mono!).
Thanks. That definitely makes me feel better about doing it. I mean, if I'm truly honest with myself, it is the best course for me, simply because I really do need a refresher on a lot of those skills.
Also:
Two people here go to Columbia? I hate you fuckers. So much.
You do realize you go to the best school in the country, right? Oh man, I'm seething with bitterness/envy so hard right now, like you wouldn't even believe.
Anyway, about me in particular... I'm taking Psychology, Science in Society, Trig/Algebra Topics (WTF?), Chorus, obligatory PE class, and then my two one-semester English electives. Except for the fact that they stuck me in Public-fucking-Speaking for the first one. Which I did not choose at all. Second semester is Short Story, which I indeed chose myself. However, my guidance counselor is gonna get shit from me until I'm out of the first class, even if I have to change my whole schedule around and sacrifice my guaranteed daily Study Hall. Ugh.
Anyway, I'm hoping to pass and thus graduate and thus get the hell out. w00t?
I can drive but not get good spots, don't have to take gym but I do have to take math, and also people I hate are going to be in my life again.
Oh well, at least I get to do this kickass Design & Illustration class (Which takes up half my day at another school, so only 4 classes for me, all year).
Introductory Chemistry
Introductory Physics
Calculus of One Variable
Introduction French Studies
Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Teaching and Curriculum
First year, Concurrent Education with a double major in Chemistry and Physics. I'm a little scared to say the least.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie