Am i going to kill myself next semester?

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<p>Okay so I finished with first semester with about 13 credits, which wasn't bad. Since I feel like I'm more adjusted to college now, I decided to load up a lot more. More specifically, 10 credits more. That's not the full story though.
Okay so ill be taking the following general courses (i don't want to give specific names for all of my classes for fear of revealing which school i'm from):</p>

<p>1 gen ed with a fairly easy prof from ratemyprof.com (4 credits)
General chemistry (4 credits. No lab because I did that first semester)
1 gen ed---more specifically, creative writing with a pretty easy prof from ratemyprof.com (3 credits)
Basic Stats for Research (3 credits)
EMT course provided by my school (6 w/lab e-credits)
East Asia (3 credits)</p>

<p>So that totals to 23 credits. However, I need to make the "6 e-credits" more clear. E-credits essentially contribute to full time status (if the rest of the credits I have are less than 12, which isn't a problem for anyways.) They will not be contributed to my GPA/graduating credits. However, I want to become a licensed EMT and volunteer at a fire squad over the summer. I mean, hadn't it been for my university, I would still take this course but instead over the summer, when I would have to pay half a grand. This course is free for me b/c of its competitive selection process. So this is why I'm taking this course. So in terms of formalities, I will only have 17 official graduating credits but technically will be taking on the workload of 23 credits. The EMT course alone will be 13 hours/week. I am taking alot of gen ed's because I'm trying to get rid of my graduating requirements as soon as possible, so sophomore year, I can focus on the more important classes. I already came into school with around 40 credits, so i have alot of the graduating requirements done as well but still, I would like to get rid of almost all the graduating requriements as soon as possible. I'm a premed major. Is this courseload too much? Should i chop it down?</p>

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<p>I would drop whatever this is: “1 gen ed with a fairly easy prof from ratemyprof.com (4 credits)” and go with that. Make sure you’re aware of just how much work 19 credits is, let alone 23 credits, even if they’re mostly with “easy professors”.</p>

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<p>I would drop one or two classes, I never really got why someone would want to blaze through college (unless money was an issue).</p>

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<p>I think you’re going to want to drop one class, not because of the total number of credits being too high but simply because of how few you took previously. It’s just such a large jump in credits, from 13 to 23. That difference seems like it would be huge…going up a few credits isn’t as big of deal, but 10 is. I’m in my second semester of freshman year too and I’m taking 22 (mostly music classes, which have lots of practicing time for various instruments I play, plus I have 3 additional classes worth 0 credits but still required, 13 classes total), but I took 19 first semester so that’s different.</p>

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<p>I think you’d be fine if you prioritize your classes over EMT training if they don’t contribute to your gpa or major. I would assume EMT training is time consuming, if you must take it this semester, drop a class or two.</p>

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<p>I would take the EMT course in the summer and focus on schoolwork during the year – if EMT ‘labs’ are anything like at my school, you’ll be up from 3 - 5 a.m. doing your rounds. Really takes its toll.</p>

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<p>No you’re not.</p>

<p>I’m doing 24 (27, but planning to drop 1) (all technical ECE classes), and working 10 hours/week.</p>

<p>Time management and discipline are the keys. :)</p>