Am I overwhelming myself? Taking 18 credit hours

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I’m currently a freshman in college and next semester I am planning on taking 18 credit hours. Here’s a breakdown of the courses:

US Hist to 1865 (3)
College Composition 2 (3)
Calculus w/ Analytic Geo 2 (4)
Physics w/ Calc 1 and Lab (5)
Fundamentals of Speech (3)

My first semester of freshman year, I’m taking 13 credit hours:

College Composition 1 (3)
Calc w/ Analytic Geo 1 (4)
Health Concepts and Strategies (3)
Introduction to Sociology (3)

I’m just wondering if I’m going to overwhelm myself with the classes that I want to take, taking into account the classes that I’m taking this semester.

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You will be fine. The calc components will over lap so you only need to study that once. Overall it is still only 5 classes which is a normal load. It will be a bit more work but definitely doable if studies is your main focus. If your a Division 1 football player then it might be too much.

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You need to average 15 credits per semester to graduate on time.
You only took 13 last semester. How did you do?
What are you majoring in?