<p>I am so not a morning person but I made it to nearly all of my 9 am's (only didn't go about 3 or 4 times, during the girly time of the month). It was so hard though... who can learn French that early in the morning?? </p>
<p>I honestly don't think I'd ever make it to 8 am's, I have had 8 am finals before that were brutal, and they were only one or two days out of the whole semester. It's so hard to go to bed early if you're in the dorms too, because there's so much going on til 12 or 1 am, or even later sometimes.</p>
<p>Amazingly, I didn't miss one session of my 8am back in the fall, yay! I swore I would never have an 8am ever again. I have an 8am this fall because the scheduling didn't work out to take the class at my local CC this summer. But it's fine, because I'm not motivated to study right now at all. </p>
<p>I second the point about not listening to your advisor too much. If you haven't declared and have no clue what your major will be, your advisor will be a random professor on campus. This is bad; this person doesn't even necessarily want or know how to advise you. They may not know about the foreign language requirement to get a BA, or the school-wide requirement to take a basic computer science class. If you don't already have a course catalog, look at the online one or call admissions and have one mailed to you. Be sure you know what you need to get done. If you miss a beat, it could mean a summer session, missing out on a semester abroad, or being in college for an extra semester.</p>
<p>for engineering(specific) majors at UMCP, we got a mentor and advisers. advisers are staff who KNOW EVERYTHING about scheduling and the requirements, mentors are prof's who just talk to u about ur interests. danger is when u are engineering-undecided. your advisers are idiots.</p>
<p>It's actually the exact same way here at VT. You have to be General Engineering your first year (for engineers) and you get some random idiot adviser. The one for my actual major knows what she's doing, but she wasn't my adviser until now.</p>
<p>Couldn't be, communications requires effort and putting in hours at the campus radio and tv stations and such. Some vague area of liberal studies perhaps?</p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshman & have two questions..1) Does anyone take more than 18 hours per semester -not allowed for me first semester, but I'm wondering about later- and 2)relatedly, does anyone graduate in three years?</p>
<p>Oh yeah I'm having the same difficulty with my early classes. I sleep around @ 4, and had hard time even making into 10 o clock classes. (9 o clock classes were worse) but because I didn't have any schedules open, I had to sign up for 8 o clock class next semester. I'm gonna die. this is going to suck.</p>
<p>I wish I would have brought a tv and video games in the dorm freshman year. That would have been so much fun.</p>
<p>and also, don't take junior level classes. I got all A+'s my first semester and I was too confident in myself so the next semester I took six courses (which was too many) including a 300 level class for my major in which I got the single A- that destroyed my perfect GPA for the rest of my college career. daaamn.</p>
<p>I have no advice because I'm going to be a freshman this fall too. But to all those complaining about one 8:00 am class, consider yourself lucky because I have an 8:00 am class every day. Not my choosing. I'm going to have to break my habit of going to sleep late. ;(</p>