<p>Can anyone tell me whether this schedule is too hard, or better yet, recommend which professors to take?</p>
<p>1.cohort
2. Calculus II [I am pretty sure I passed calc ab with a 4 or 5], but, would this be too hard of a course?
3. Microeconomics
4. ConWest-Animal Humans
5. Some science course [I am thinking of either General Physics or the cosmos class. I am not a science person by any stretch, but I particularly LOATHE biology and chem, so math related ones would prob. be best.]
can anyone elaborate how difficul these science courses are? I dont mind taking the harder one, but I have heard horrible things about physics. Also, I am waiting to take World Cultures until second semester, when one on russia is offered [hopefully with Cohen!], and I heard taking conwest and WTE simultaneously is death, so I am taking that second semester as well. Any feedback on this schedule would be grand.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you read my other response, but this is what I had to say about Cosmos and the Earth: “I took Cosmos and the Earth as my Nat Sci I, and I thought it was fairly easy. There is some physics involved, but physics was the only class I didn’t do well in in high school, and I did just fine in Cosmos and the Earth. Word of warning though: you MUST go to EVERY lab. If you miss even one, the prof will use it as an excuse to bump you down a grade.”</p>
<p>To build on that, I have to say that I was 50/50 on the class. On the one hand, I loved the subject (I had originally wanted to be an astrophysicist before realizing that I…suck at physics), but on the other, I wasn’t very fond of the professor, Adler. Luckily, you needn’t interact with him too much, as the labs are run by TAs. The math is definitely not difficult, and overall, the exams were also pretty easy, as they were mostly memorization of astronomical facts and equations. Overall, I’d recommend it if you want an easier Nat Sci that just requires a fair amount of memorization.</p>
<p>Definitely hold out for Cohen (if he’s even still teaching, as he went on extended leave after my sophomore year), but make sure you’ll have enough flexibility in your schedule later on to take it. It’s an absolutely wonderful class, as Cohen is a true expert on the subject of Soviet Russia. He’s one of the few people who has gotten access to the government’s collection of Soviet archives, and in one class, he showed us a video he recorded when he met Bukharin’s wife, who spent the entire time talking about how gentle and sweet of a man the brilliant Bolshevik was. He also manages to get awesome TAs. And of course, the subject is just fascinating; we started with late-19th century Russia (around the time Lenin began developing his theories) and went straight through the fall of the czars, the subsequent civil war, Soviet communism, and the collapse of said communism. So, it’s more like Russia since Lenin/Marx with the obvious emphasis on post-Bolshevik Revolution Russia.</p>
<p>you can’t push back WTE to the second semester, because by then you’re going to have to take Business and its publics, which is another writing course. I say skip Nat Sci (it’s easy) and take WTE instead.</p>