College Fall 2008

Peanut-Lover

So, its summer, and you're probably thinking "just leave me alone with school - its my break". Please leave and don't post if you solely want to troll.

This is for people to discuss anything regarding college - have you graduated, and want to leave college students tips? Maybe you are a freshman and need help organizing your schedule? Speaking of schedules, were you somehow able to magicaly stagger your hours to save on bus fare, or were you the exact opposite, spreading your classes out evenly through the week? Maybe you registered really late, and ended up with the most eratic schedule on the face of the planet?


I for one was able to stagger my schedule to only go in 4 days a week, and Tu/Fri, I only have one class. Thursday is a b*tch - 9:45 AM - 10 PM.

This is for a freshman schedule, part of the "block" program at Hunter CUNY. So, I switched out of Itro Chem to Intermediate Chem, and kept the old Calculus from another Block (they tried forcing me into an 8 am Calculus class), and these are my courses.

A whopping 15.5 credits, along with the 13.5 Credits completed before the school even begins (10.5 through a College NOW program, 3 from an AP, and 3 from a summer course I begin Monday)

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Math 231: Differential Equations

Math 351: Algebra I

German 201: Intermediate German

English 251: Introduction to Poetry

MedievlSt 201: Medieval Studies I

Sociology 400: Special Topics in Sociology: American Society and the Films of Quentin Tarintino


Only posting this because it is awesome.
 
I go to Full Sail. Next month I have 188 hours of class. Thats 47 hours a week. I have class at 9 am, then lab at 5pm then 1am the next day. We only get 3 breaks all year long and our longest is two weeks at Xmas.

Love your schedules no matter what. Cuz its not mine.
 
47 hours a week is pretty rough, what is it exactly that you are studying?
Anyway, this is my timetable here for last week. More or less my weeks are similar to this:
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As you can see, it is full on.
Wednesdays are spent doing community based work (9-5 on average) and I am doing mine with Intellectually Disabled adults at a Community Skills Centre.
Every second thursday is Clinical Placement day, where we are currently doing our GP placements. For me this last approximately 9-6 and involves me sitting in consultations, performing exams and histories.
Clinical procedures i do include: cryotherapy (burning off moles, warts and spots with liquid nitrogen), taking blood, giving injections, stitches, plastering, pap smears and more.
These are my favorite days of the week!
 
MBG 210 - Genetics
CHEM 233 - Principles of Organic Chemistry I

Those are my only "essential" courses. If there is no schelude conflict (those aren't announced for us yet, but I really hope there isn't. ), I'll take the following in addition:

HUM 121 - The Mediterranean World to 1600
MBG 416 - Science and Ethics
1 Restricted Elective (MBG 300+ coded course)
1 Technical Elective (CHEM, MATH, PHYS or MBG 200+ coded course)

And one of the following (or two, replacing the restricted or technical elective course):
MBG 326 - Introduction to Bioinformatics
MBG 311 - Biochemistry I
MBG 301 - Molecular Biology of the Cell I
MBG 324 - Molecular Biology of the Gene

I intend to finish school early, hence a shitload of courses piled up. I took (Actually still taking... Summer school, bah. ) 17 courses (which totals to about 51 credits if I recall, nicely rounding to an 3 credit average, though our system might be different than yours, we need 132 total credits to graduate) in my first year due to that, but my GPA went stupidly low (3.15ish atm. ) As I'm going way over my head, advice from those who have taken those courses (or similar ones) is appreciated to choose the easier ones and leave the hard ones to the third (and hopefully last) grade.
 
British medical school? Ouch.
And why community based work? Is it mandatory by the British government to be certified as a doctor? Or is it your internship, so as to gain exerience?

Edit: By the way, Protoman, are you a junior in college? Those look like pretty decent courses, an English major perhaps? Or is it anthropology?

Edit 2: I took genetics in High School, it wasn't too bad. 3 15 page papers in the span of four months, memorizing the intricuit parts of mitosis/meiosis is important. Memorize when the parts of meiosis occur in women - what happens when they are born, what happens when the egg is released, and there's a stage even in the fallopian tube. Detail is a bigger part of genetics than the rest of biology, though everything in the sciences needs to be as close as possible.
 
Lol, its actually Australian medical school (Monash), and is an awesome course! Very patient-centred.

Um, community based placement isn't madatory to get your licence, but it is part of our course and does give us vital experience in areas of the community people normally don't get to experience. there's 2 of us at this place, working with people with ID, but others in the course are at Indigenous schools, Berri Street ('problem' kids), Welfare organisations etc.

Hmm alper. My undergraduate degree was Biomedical Science and many of the subjects i took were similar to those.

Bioinformatics is alright, but i found WAY too boring for me (I like the people side of biomedicine). If you have good computer skills, then by all means go ahead with it. More or less our entire subject consisted of getting random amino acid sequences, and then using databases to BLAST and find out what protein it was from, before modelling it and doing a presentation on it. Didn't help that our lecturer was shit boring.

Biochem is generally fun, as its Biochem 1 I imagine it will be mainly on things like Krebs cycle and gluconeogenesis and stuff like that. Find out what things you will cover in the subject, and i can tell you whether it is good or not.

Molecular Biology as a general is interesting, but lies somewhere in between Biochem and Bioinformatics. Out of the two, the 'gene' one is probably most interesting and would involve DNA sequencing and extraction as well as PCR techniques.
Quite useful to have if you ever want to go into research of any kind
 
Hmm, I think they'll go hard on us from what I see, since they already introduced us to database searches, PCR, blots and the like in our first year. I think Bioinformatics will be focused on visualizing proteins, and I will probably take that. I will try to get the exact content of our topics when they're available (Though this will near a month or so, I believe. )

Thanks a lot for the help, it will be very useful on tackling that hellish second year out (Interestingly, third year won't really be any different than a "regular" one taken by a sane, reasonable student, except with more laboratory work with a supervising teacher. )
 
hmm, it didn't really get all that much harder from first to second year for me i don't think.
We did pretty boring projects that involved conferring antibiotic resistance to certain strains of bacteria. So who knows, you might get some microbiology thrown in as well.
 
The problem is that I'm trying to handle third/fourth grade from my first and second so I can finish it in three years (Hence the reason I took 17 courses in my first year, I was "cleaning up" the easier subjects (Which is mainly English/Turkish/Chemistry/History/MBG/Physics/Calculus 101 and 102s) so I have room for harder ones in my later years. ) I looked at some exam questions of those years and they didn't seem that hard, though, just very detailed/memorization based.
 
Course registration is on the 21st. I can't meet with my advisor until 22nd. I'm trying to do a joint major between Communications and Interactive Arts & Technology but technically I'm not a Communications student yet. This means I can't sign up for half my courses. Agh I'm stressed.

This is how my schedule will HOPEFULLY look if I get into all the classes and don't get screwed over.

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IAT 312: Foundations of Game Design
IAT 313: Narrative and New Media
CMNS 235: Introduction to Journalism in Canada
CMNS 253: Introduction to Information Technology: The New Media
CMNS 262: Design and Method in Qualitative Research
 
MWF:
Classics 335 (Intro to Classical Mythology) 9:30-10:20
English 441 (Shakespeare and His Contemporaries) 1:30-2:20


T/Th:
Classics 181 (Classical World Civilizations) 10:30-11:45
History 343 (Traditional Japan) 1:30-2:45
English 235 (Introduction to Drama) 3:00-4:15


Not really bad at all considering this is going to be my last semester as an undergraduate (semester early :) ). I'll be graduating from Purdue University with a degree in English with minors in Medieval/Renaissance Studies and Classical Studies. Then grad school somewhere :-/
 
mine's pretty spread out time-wise between physics, calc, and intro engineering. Then I've got psychology and some random history course in there somewhere. I remember tuesdays and thursdays have less classes than my other days, and friday isn't too bad either. Too many morning classes than I'd like, but I can deal.
 
Junior year of college for me, I will be starting into the major coursework of Accounting with Intermediate Accounting I. I also have a couple other business classes to round out my business generals like Human Resources and Industrial Relations (HRIR) class and something else which I don't want to think about now. I *almost* got Friday's completely off (like I did Sophomore year in second semester), but a 1 credit gym class forces me out of bed at 11 or so on Friday's unfortunately, I don't know how I will cope ;(
 
Good luck to all in/starting college. I graduated a bit over a year ago, from ECPI. Effin waste of money and time.

Word of advice, never attend a private technical course, I'd have been better off spending that time trying to become limber enough to perform autofelatio.
 
freshman, major: aerospace engineering

AHI101 G, Survey Egypt To Renaiss, F, 1500-1550
AHI101 WAT, Survey Egypt To Renaiss, M W, 1300-1350
EAS140 B, Engineering Solutions, M W, 1700-1750
EAS140 B_2, Engineering Solutions, M, 1800-1950
ENG102 P, Writing 2, T R, 1100-1220
MTH142 I, College Calculus 2, M W F, 1600-1650
MTH142 I_2, College Calculus 2, F, 1000-1050
PHY107 H-5, Physics 1 Rec, R, 0830-0920
PHY107 HU, Physics 1, T R, 1400-1515

I'm overall kind of displeased with my schedule. I have a few large gaps between classes and will most likely have to drive back home as I am not dorming. As far as course selection goes, I'm kind of upset that my 5 on physics B does jack shit and that I have to take art history. Mondays are probably going to be killer...
 
Third Year Comp Sci Major:

CMSC330: Organization of Programming Languages: MW 3:30-4:45/MW 10:00-10:50
CMSC351: Algorithms: MW 2:00-3:15
STAT400: Applied Probability and Statistics: TuTh 12:30-1:45/M 8:00-9:15
ENGL310: Medieval and Renaissance British Literature: TuTh 9:30-10:45
ASTR220: Collisions in Space: TuTh 2:00-3:15

Yup, no Friday classes. I will need the break for as CMSC330 involves a lot of regular expression projects (yipee), the professor for CMSC351 gives terrible notes, and ENGL310 = tons of reading.
 
NUR000: Malpractice Insurance (TBA)
NUR001: Substance Abuse Screening (TBA)
NUR004: Background Screening (TBA)
RAD111: Intro to Radiography (T 1050-1240)
RAD112: Radiography Procedures I (T 800-1040)
RAD113: Patient Care (F 800-1150)
RAD114: Clinical Edu. I (MW 800-1040)

No idea what year I am as I took most prerequisites during high school but this schedule isn't too bad. More classes than my previous two semesters but it just means I get out sooner.
 
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