<p>ECO100 sucks both semesters with both professors. I personally experienced Reinhardt, who was scatterbrained, longwinded, and disorganized, and flooded our inboxes excessively with random crap. From what I hear, Farber was even worse...so...take your pick.</p>
<p>(also: I took 5 classes w/ both a writing and freshman seminar ...I didn't think it was terrible, but it was definitely a lot of work.)</p>
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I took 5 classes w/ both a writing and freshman seminar ...I didn't think it was terrible, but it was definitely a lot of work.
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Touky - what, if anything, did you feel you missed out on by taking 5 your first semester. If you could freshman year start over, would you still take 5 classes?</p>
<p>i took eco 100 first semester w/ farber. god i hated that class. (and got a crappy grade in it). lectures/precepts were boring, but usually understandable (if you managed not to zone out/fall asleep). however, all our problem sets and tests had crap we had never done before. the highlight of that class was the streakers that visited on the last lecture before winter break.</p>
<p>as for taking 5 classes, why the hell would you do that? take it easy first semester, and then do it 2nd semester if you still want to.</p>
<p>An upperclassman told me one of his friends managed to handle SEVEN classes in one semester. But I guess he was one of those crazy-genius kids who also played fifty three varsity sports and was the president of everything and still managed to handle it and sleep.</p>
<p>Sheesh.</p>
<p>the people that take 7 classes are the same people that never go out. thats why you never see some people at the street.</p>
<p>Or maybe he took three of them pass/fail...</p>
<p>so is taking econ 100 second semester slightly better? It'll be my first time taking econ and I don't want to be completely turned off first semester...is Econ 101 better?</p>
<p>7 classes would equal not being able to do anything else. There's no way to physically do that much and have time to get involved in activities (or...y'know...engage in human interaction). Not enough time in the day. As...erm..."appealing" as that might be, I think I'll stick with my four and have fun with it! Woohoo! :D</p>
<p>you can't take more than one course PDF. there is no "right" order to take ECO100 and 101. the professor in the fall is reinhardt (who is much better than farber). he is a fun professor and the class is a great first class at princeton. the class is not extremely demanding and be careful because they switch the professors frequently so in the spring it could be farber again or someone worse. it seems liike Bogan always teaches Macro and all of her classes are the same. she does a good job teaching the material, weekly problem sets, weekly readings of the economist and a rigorous midterm/final. some people love her same people do not like her teaching style. but ECO100 with reinhardt will, if anything, make you like econ more and you should capitalize on the ability to take the class with him.</p>
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is that per semester?</p>
<p>yes, per semester. you get 4 PDFs overall, you can't use more than one per semester.</p>
<p>Well a lot of the classes that people would normally want to PDF are listed as NO PDF (art classes, theatre classes, one interesting course on skeptism and magic...). Makes you wonder what's the point :confused:</p>
<p>the point of PDFs is basically to fulfill distribution requirements...or take courses that you wouldn't normally take. like when i took ART101. half the class was probably taking it PDF, and fulfilled an LA. or when nonscience people take "gut" science courses PDF. or in a semester when you are taking 5 classes and you want to make your workload more manageable. if a course is listed NO PDF there is a reason. the subjective courses (ie: DAN and VIS, can't be PDF b/c as long as you show up its pretty hard to fail), requirements for some majors. classes that are somewhat popular. and courses where the professor doesn't want slackers (ie: POL 315 and POL 316, the robert george classes...making those NO PDF keeps the un-serious people out of the class)</p>
<p>ok. thanks for explaining. </p>
<p>You need 17 courses by the end of sophomore year. Does the Writing Seminar count as a <em>course</em> for when you graduate? We may be counting it as a 5th course for freshman year, but is it counted as one of the 31 courses you need to graduate??</p>
<p>WRI counts. FRS counts. Languages count etc.
JPs/Task forces do not count. (except maybe in BSE). does not count towards the 31...but the 31 # assumes you only take 3 courses each semester senior year.</p>
<p>Most engineering (all but CS?) does not have JPs, they have Independent Work, which is listed as a course, and optional in most departments.</p>
<p>i was wondering how crazy it would be to try to do premed at Princeton and take advantage of advanced standing</p>
<p>does anyone have any experience with advanced standing?</p>
<p>Don't do advanced standing.</p>
<p>Yeah, advanced standing is dumb. Why would you want to do college in just three years, especially at a great place like Princeton? What's more, employers aren't going to be ultra-impressed by it, so what's the point? I would rather hire a 23-year old who has had four years of maturation under his belt, than a 22-year old who's just done three years of college. You get seperated from the rest of your class, and I just see no reason why anyone would do it.</p>
<p>I have enough AP credit to cut myself one semester short, but I'd rather get the extra education (and perhaps an extra certificate). Don't get that many opportunities in life to take Princeton classes.</p>
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<p>That's the best argument I've heard against advanced standing. Seriously, while I understand finances are an issue for some folks, think about it: this is your one and only chance to be at Princeton. Might as well take advantage of the full four years :)</p>