<p>I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering and so far I have 15 credits and I am thinking about taking Philosophy 101(as a pass/fail course) and that will bump me up to 18 credits. I don't think this is too much and plus I don't have a social life at all so far so I at least want to have something to do. Is this a good idea? Oh and just want to take Philo 101 because I've always been interested in Philosophy.</p>
<p>I once took a religion course with intent of p/f, and I almost failed. Another time, I took a econ course with the intent of p/f, and almost failed that one too… They weren’t hard. I just stopped caring after I realized they weren’t my cup of tea. Philosophy sounds like it’s right around that ball park for me as well. but you might be different</p>
<p>If you’re interested and you can handle the workload, then do it. Just don’t blow it off because it’s pass/fail. That gets people into trouble.</p>
<p>I did 17 and 19 credits my freshman year. If you make sure that you keep on top of your schoolwork and due dates, there shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>I recommend 16 max. 16 is too much for me to handle if there’s a lab component. At my old CC, a 5 credit class was actually 4 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab. However, my Chem II class it was 6 hours of lab and 4 hours of lecture. It was not a very fun semester.</p>
<p>Make sure you know exactly what you’re getting into. If reading the same 10 pages over and over to fully grasp it and sitting around talking about cartesian circle and such sounds fun, go for it. Taking it just “for something to do” seems like a lousy reason. You can read Descartes on your own time after all.</p>