<p>We had a discussion similar to this one I am about to pose a while ago, but I want to bring it up again. I just found out that I got a 4 on my AP English test, which exempts me from the Expository writing class. The thing is, I'm not entirely sure that I want to be exempt. It sounds like it would be a good class to take to build a foundation of college quality writing. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Well with a four you still have to take a freshman writing seminar, which is basically like expos but with a topic.</p>
<p>^ Or you can take Intro to Philosophy instead of English 2 like I'm doing...hehe.</p>
<p>I also got a 4...I think I might be taking Intro to Philosophy..which is harder, that or English 2?</p>
<p>Depends on each person. I thought I would love philosophy but ended up dropping it within 2 weeks. English II takes a lot of work to actually churn compositions out though.</p>
<p>Who's teaching Intro to Philosophy? I heard one of the profs is supposed to be amazing...</p>
<p>Susan Russinoff and David Denby are teaching intro to philo.</p>
<p>Denby I hear is supposed to be very good.</p>
<p>You could do what I did and go straight into English 2: from what I hear English 1 is just a huge waste of time.</p>
<p>do you guys know about tuftsreviews.com?
it's like "rate my professor" but for tufts students only.
And it includes notes about workload.
Check it out.</p>
<p>I ditto what wrathofachilles AND snuffles said. Denby is supposedly amazing, and my friend is signing up for the other course he's teaching this semester just because he was such a good philosophy professor.</p>
<p>undecidedly, if you go to jumboaccess.com and select Tufts, there's a link to the side of the page that says "Official Reviews". These were only released after this last semester. At the end of each semester, all students in a class have to fill out a professor evaluation. These were finally released. I think it's great because on ratemyprofessors you get the polarized reviews - only people who really loved or hated a professor will bother posting a review. So take ratemyprofessors with a grain of salt. Meanwhile I found the official reviews to be pretty accurate :)</p>
<p>That website is great! Thanks for the tip!</p>
<p>going to jumbo access and clicking on tufts or going to tuftsreviews.com is the same thing.</p>
<p>try it.</p>
<p>and if you read my post you would notice that i didn't suggest using rate my professors at all....</p>
<p>so yeah.</p>
<p>I think you kinda misunderstood what I wrote but whatever.
thanks anyway.</p>
<p>um, no, not really. I'm sorry that I didn't realize that tuftsreviews.com was the same website, but by saying something is "like" ratemyprofessors, you're suggesting that they are similar. I was pointing out only that ratemyprofessors should be taken with a grain of salt, as it only provides polar perspectives. And MY point - though apparently it was not clear enough and only served to insult your intelligence - was that tuftsreviews.com, before the Official Reviews was added, was virtually the exact same thing as ratemyprofessors, in that it offers a skewed perspective on the class/professor. I suggested that you check, in particular, the Official Reviews link, because I believe that will provide the most unbiased rating of a class, albeit sans comments (those are not released), since everyone in the class has to fill one out and those numbers reflect a much more accurate average.</p>
<p>I sincerely apologize for attempting to help you, but not reading between the lines of your post carefully enough. Far be it from me.</p>
<p>It depends on every person for english I and II. I personally thought they were very good at helping my writing improve beyond what I had prior. One of the things that most people regret upon graduation from college is the wish that they had taken more writing courses.</p>
<p>if you can, skip english 1 (expository writing). don't get me wrong, i don't think it's a waste of time but it's almost impossible to get above a B+ simply because if you get an A- or above, you are exempted from English 2. Therefore it's very rare for a person to get higher than a B+. So for those who cannot bear to get anything below an A-, i recommend you try to place out of it with AP or something. English 2, on the other hand, is a lot easier. My professor (Elizabeth Levell) was great!! She was the cutest and the most ethusiastic teacher I've ever had.</p>
<p>What was the subject of your English 2 class?</p>
<p>Other Worlds (i believe). It deals with the supernatural. We read a selection of short stories and a few novels. Some of the short stories we read were The Yellow Wallpaper and the Birthmark. The novels we read were BELOVED, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, and WOMAN WARRIOR. The interesting about Other Worlds is that the material we read seemed to deal more with one's own psychological balance than actual ghosts or spirits. Nevertheless, professsor Levell made it very very fun (at least for me).</p>
<p>The intro to philosophy courses are completely closed for the Fall (i looked on the Tufts class listings website)...except for the one taught by Russinoff who has a very bad reputation. </p>
<p>This is so unfair..they make you choose your advisor program before you get your AP scores. If I knew what my scores were then I would have signed up for the CAP course for intro to philosophy with Denby. Now I am stuck with something completely immaterial and pointless.</p>
<p>I loved Levell for english 1, though part of me was jealous that I wasn't in another class where the class assignment was to go home that evening and pick up an object in your room and write a page about it. She did help me enjoy short stories while analyzing them. Thankfully I was one of the lucky ones to get an A- though I inevitably ended up having to take english II :)</p>