<p>Get ahead in freshmen. Dont believe them when they tell you to take the first quarter slow because thats bs. Start out strong so you dont have to play the catching up game for the rest of the year. I did that and it screw my units up. i had 13 units and ask if its okai and the adviser said its perfect for my first quarter. and because of my workload i was only be able to get 8 units. I started taking 17 units each quarter. its hard for me to take whole bunch of easy class and get like 20 units since i need to take the science classes. Like this quarter, i have 17 units but i have 23.5 hours of class each week because of bio, che, and phy labs.
Also taking fewer units will get you bad registering times and therefore hard to get in classes. The people with more units get to register first.
Your classes only gets harder, so dont take it easy with easy classes or your have to work double times with harder classes.</p>
<p>unless…you wish to spend 5-6 years in college…</p>
<p>valid perspective momotudy</p>
<p>I can understand why advisers tell students to take the first quarter slow. So many people goof off & party hard - so much so that they don't go to class & wait till the last minute to do any assignment. I knew so many people who got put on academic probation after the first quarter. For students who are strong academically & will actually work, there isn't much need to take it easy the first quarter.</p>
<p>I took 13 units my first quarter too, (followed by 16 & 15 unit quarters for the rest of my time). I agree that I could have handled more. I still graduated in 4 years as a chem major so it's not like it screws you over permanently. I even got to have part-time status my last quarter because I only needed 10 units to graduate (love that reduced tuition rate).</p>
<p>Just wondering what's the average starting salary for chem majors? That's no doubt one of the toughest majors in academia.</p>
<p>A B.S. in chem makes you a lab-tech (30-35 K). A Masters lets you start a bit higher at 45-50K and a PhD lets you have the best jobs at 80K+</p>
<p>Hence while I'm in grad school...</p>
<p>I picked up a flier from school last week that lists starting salaries for various academic majors, and I remember seeing that starting payscale for a B.S. in bio and chem was on the low end. That just seem so wrong and unfair. I tossed the flyer away somewhere, but I will try to find it later.</p>