<p>Physics II w/ lab (5)
Genetics (4)
Calc III (3)
Statics (online) (3)
Macroecon (3)</p>
<p>I'm very dedicated and study A LOT but does this seem like too much? Last semester I had 19 hours but about half were gen eds, but somehow I kept my 4.0... Has anyone taken a similar load to this? </p>
<p>Also I will be doing undergrad research about 12 hours a week. (Last semester as well)</p>
<p>I used to be in a comminuty college before I transfer, and while in my CC I used to take 21 credit/semester, and they were also GenEd but now I am in engineering at my uni, and take 14 or 15 because I also work, and the classes are not that easy. I wouldn’t say you can but like you mentioned, just put a lot of effort, and make sure you don’t work, or have too much social activities.</p>
<p>18 hours for science/engineering is not that uncommon although D2’s school does try to avoid it freshman first semester because there’s more to adjust to in college than just class load</p>
<p>I had almost the exact schedule last semester except it was 21 units and instead of genetics/econ I had materials/differential equations and I got 4.0 so it’s very possible. The finals were brutal though (5 courses of dense material that you learned up to 4 months ago), what helped was doing really well over the course of the semester on midterms and quizzes so I had some points to give up on the final. Since your doing research as well, prepare to have no life.</p>
<p>I would switch one of of engineering courses with a social science. Otherwise, it will be very time consuming, trust me.</p>
<p>It’s doable. I had that exact same schedule last fall, minus the Genetics, while I worked 16 hours a week. Two of my friends had the exact same also, minus genetics, plus Geography. None of us really had a problem with time management. :)</p>
<p>OK, but did you LEARN? Do you understand what you studied? And can you apply it?</p>
<p>^Since when is school about learning? lol seriously though, these are the support courses everyone has to slog through to get to their major related courses, and as such there was tons of stuff I had to study that was a complete waste of my time. Like physics 2 is electricity and magnetism, and since I’m not an electrical engineer there’s precisely zero chance I will use Gauss’s Law again in my lifetime. So many of the lower division classes feel like you’re being tested on how well you learn in general.</p>
<p>So what’s your major, then? And you may not need to apply something, but you may need to understand it. I really can’t think of a single science or engineering discipline in which a semester-long understanding of electricity and magnetism isn’t helpful, with the possible exception of computer science and IT (depending on the domain you work in).</p>
<p>Aerospace, and I’m not saying a general understanding of electricity and magnetism isn’t useful, nor that everything we learned was worthless, but I’m saying we spent a large portion of that class learning stuff I will never use period. Learning how to use capacitors in electric circuits could prove useful; using Gauss’s law for dielectrics to setup and solve the integral of the electric field for a spherical capacitor to find the potential difference between the plates is not, unless I’m an electrical engineer who’s designing capacitors. Quite a bit of stuff I was like “Huh?? Why is learning this useful at all?” Like calculating the distance between the peaks in the diffraction pattern of a single slit. Really?? Who cares. If it’s only useful to 0.0001% of the people who take the class why include it? Let them learn that specialized stuff on their own. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>this schedule looks fine to me. 18 hours is pretty common at my school. at my school, the first week of classes you can add/drop as many classes as you like and you dont get a w. does your school do this? if so you can see if you think it will be too much or not</p>
<p>for a second i thought you guys were doing 18 hours a DAY…
and I freaked out, i almost rethought majoring in engineering</p>
<p>^Yeah, it’s 18 hours a day. Rethink again.</p>
<p>^Hipie speaketh the truth. Think hard.</p>
<p>Huh? A day?</p>
<p>I did 19 hours while taking an intermediate computer science course, an intermediate/advanced (for undergrad) physics course, English research paper writing, introduction to engineering I, and vector analysis. I almost went mad. Of course, I’d been going for two years straight without ever taking a summer off, so that contributed to my madness. And then I did one more quarter and I think I actually did go mad. So I’m taking a summer off.</p>
<p>If you feel fresh and ready for it, go for it. If you need a break, then give yourself one.</p>