<p>hello guys,</p>
<p>i had just posted a few hours ago trying to figure out what i need to do to make a decent schedule. thanks to all who helped esp. ferver :D</p>
<p>here are my classes
what do you all think?
****I have yet to add a 3 hour class so at the end it will be like 16 hours.</p>
<p>but for a first year/freshman what do you think of this. Again, i am trying to aim high but then again i dont want to overdo it this first semester. be honest, if that will be too much.</p>
<p>what should i take...what shouldnt i take? please dont be hesitant.</p>
<p>PS: i will be coming home on fridays so i wanna get the classes out the way in the morning itself...besides i am actually a morning person rather than an evening guy.</p>
<p>Also, i am trying to put in atleast 1.5 hours daily to lift (which is in the evening). i wanna go pro in lifting as a side thing but then again maintain studies with high A's. Lets see how it goes :P</p>
<p>here is the schedule</p>
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<p>just remove the spaces.</p>
<p>thank u again :D</p>
<p>If you’re new to analyzing circuits I would keep that schedule you have and try to get a 4.0. Yale Patt wrote the textbook for EE 306; it will be a difficult class.</p>
<p>“If you’re new to analyzing circuits I would keep that schedule you have and try to get a 4.0. Yale Patt wrote the textbook for EE 306; it will be a difficult class.”</p>
<p>i want to be doing software engineering…does that require analyzing circuits?</p>
<p>I’m talking about EE 302 which is an intro circuit analysis class. Depends on the professor, but mine was brutal. I’m on my 3rd semester as EE and I think EE 302 was the hardest class so far (I had professor Yu).</p>
<p>How was Yu by the way? I have him for EE 302 this fall.</p>
<p>Professor Yu is a very smart man. He speaks clearly and his lectures are coherent. His exams, however, were nightmarish. Each exam had five questions and had really oddball questions that required you to sort of “derive” things on your own. Sometimes there were questions that no one got right. The exam averages were usually less than 50. He only curves final averages, but he explains what your exam grades should be based on their positions in bell curves. Your exam grades are solely based on the performance of your classmates. I think he only wanted 10-15% of the class to get an A. He shared with my class his belief that A’s should be a rarity. </p>
<p>My real beef is probably not with the professor but with the textbook we were assigned. There were so few worked out examples and there was no solutions manual. I was at tutoring almost every day which wastes lots of time. My whole class was usually there from 9pm to midnight. It took hours to complete each homework assignment.</p>
<p>I checked out like 3 other circuits textbooks from the library to learn the material because I was having trouble. </p>
<p>If you already have experience with circuit analysis you should be fine. If you’ve never looked at circuits, make sure to find a book with worked out problems and go over lots of them. Also, suck up your pride and ask lots of question in class and visit the professor in his office hours frequently; he’s very articulate and can explain things well (I didn’t go until right before the final exam).</p>
<p>I remember other professors posted their power point notes with worked out problems so students don’t have to write much during lectures. Professor Yu writes everything on the board. In professor Yu’s class, I probably took the most hand written notes I’ve ever taken. I personally have difficulty writing and paying attention at the same time. If you find yourself writing too much, I recommend just writing the absolute minimum; maybe draw the circuits and work out the problems, but don’t write any definitions – those are in the textbook.</p>
<p>There were many people in my class that changed majors because professor Yu’s class was so hard. I don’t think 302 is intended to be a weed out class, but it seemed to be in my class.</p>