<p>This is what my schedule for next semester looks like:</p>
<p>Engl 205 - Critical Thinking/Intermediate Composition
Engl 216 - English Literature II 1800-Present
Engl 253 - Fiction Writing
Engl 240 - Shakespeare
Huma 101 - Intro to Humanities</p>
<p>...****</p>
<p>Well, have fun. I'm not sure how that's gonna be (I'm more of a math person) but if I had to take 5 science classes, I'd probably die</p>
<p>Let me guess.. English major? </p>
<p>If not, maybe try to diversify a bit. :)</p>
<p>Have fun reading 10032402397409812741234 pages and writing 123213 essays.</p>
<p>Although I'm doing something similar this semester in that I'm a science major taking 5 science classes. While I'm not going insane, per se, I am definitely not going to do it again.</p>
<p>Good luck with that....</p>
<p>I'm taking an econ class, a history class, a french class and two classes in law. So I'm pretty screwed too.</p>
<p>TOO MANY ENGLISH CLASSES!</p>
<p>I would say drop 2 and explore other subjects. You most likely won't have that chance again after you finish college.</p>
<p>Will you go insane?</p>
<p>Without a doubt. </p>
<p>I'm an English major, and can barely handle more than two ENL courses a quarter. Try to mix it up a bit (unless you don't have any other choice).</p>
<p>you won't go insane, but sorry, it's just a stupid idea.</p>
<p>looks fun and hard at the same time. I don't think you'd go insane. Have fun!</p>
<p>I think that you'll get stuck reading so much material each night and writing so many papers that are due at the same time that you'll end up hating what you're doing, instead of loving it, which is counter to the point, right?</p>
<p>upper level engineering students have to take 4 or 5 classes a semester that are specific to their major and they survive...if you enjoy english there shouldn't be a problem</p>
<p>Don't worry. I'm taking 4 next semester. Oh the life of an English major.</p>
<p>ENGL404 - Shakespeare: Later Works
ENGL446 - Post-Modern British and American Poetry
ENGL428b - Composition Studies
ENGL280 - Introduction to the English Language
SPAN203 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
Two of your classes seem writing intensive and the others seem more reading intensive. Your classes seem to be at the sophomore-junior level, so they won't have a ****-ton of work anyway.</p>
<p>If you enjoy English, then it's fine. All 5 of my classes next semester pertain to Latin America in some way, and I love it.</p>
<p>i don't understand people who take so many classes in the same subject/same semester. if you know what you're doing early enough, you should never have to take more than 2 classes in a single department in any given semester to get any sort of major.</p>
<p>^jags - not true for some Honours majors.</p>
<p>yeah you are wrong...like i said engineering majors are jam packed with engineering classes junior and senior year...i'm only a freshman and next semester 3 out of my 4 classes are required for my major...after my 3rd semester all of my classes will be requirements in order to graduate in 4.5 years</p>
<p>Oh the life of an English major.</p>
<p>English is widely considered to be unrigorous. Only math, science, and engineering majors are truly rigorous in most people's opinions.</p>
<p>I rather like my classes for next semester:</p>
<p>AC101-Accounting 101
MA119- Finite Mathematics
PS101(H)- Intro to Psychology (Honors)
IT117- Advanced Intermediate Italian
MI109- Microbiology -Plagues, diseases and outbreaks</p>
<p>...although I SHOULD be taking AC102 but I picked the only college in the US where the 3 credits I had earned previously wont transfer!! and my college's AC101+102 are equilivalent to the AC101 that I had previously took.</p>
<p>I am not wrong. If you are seeking any sort of liberal arts degree, which english is, you shouldn't need to take 5 million classes. A major is generally around 11 classes, which over 8 semesters isn't that much. Of course there are usually other requirements, but if say you're getting a degree in english, you likely don't take more than 11 or 12 classes with ENGL in the course lettering unless you want to. For you engineering people, its also the same. If you're an electrical engineering major, you don't take 20 classes on electrical engineering--sure there may be core math/physics classes and basic prerequisite engineering courses that are required for being in the engineering school, but you don't take 20 classes in your specialty area--there likely aren't that many offered.</p>
<p>jags, you are right about English but it sounds like you grossly underestimate the pure number of "core math/physics classes and basic prerequisite engineering courses" that an engineering major entails.</p>
<p>Engineering at Smith, which is probably the most liberal arts-like engineering program you will find (and according to an engineering major there, won't give you enough technical knowledge to work as an engineer straight out of college), requires 88 (out of 128) credits in math, physics, chemistry, computer science and engineering. Any rigorous engineering program that would actually allow you to work as an engineer afterwards (without going to grad school) requires even more coursework in engineering...</p>
<p>And considering that the science classes required for the major are usually prerequisites for most engineering courses, I wouldn't be surprised if engineering majors had to take pretty much only engineering courses junior and senior year.</p>