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<p>I take the blue line to get to the airport but take the silver line coming back. I take the silver line to South Station.</p>

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<p>motion12345, did you make that using BU student link or just off the top of your head? I’m interested in making a hypothetical schedule, but I can’t figure out how you did that.</p>

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<p>GladKen, you can go to the part of the Academic portion of the Student Link. Click on Registration and then go to the Fall 2010 part. It’ll have a “Planner” option… you can use that to make a preliminary schedule. It’ll tell you how many slots are left for each class too, so you’ll have an idea whether you’ll realistically get the course or not. It’s an awesome tool during registration too. You can transfer all of your courses over from the planner without individually finding them each, barring that none fill up. They do spend an awful lot of time for selecting classes during orientation though which can be kind of boring if you have a planned schedule. Print it out and bring it with you to fill out the handwritten forms.</p>

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<p>Thanks Lauren thats good advice. I can see why orientation would spend so much time on this- its tough choosing a good schedule! When you choose classes with a lecture and discussion requirement, do most people put it on the same day with the same prof? Or does that not matter?</p>

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<p>Here’s a practice schedule I whipped up. It looks pretty good from where I’m standing, then again I’m standing in a no-name high school. I have the sinking feeling there is something wrong with it. Please take a look:</p>

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<p>Gladken: At first glance I see that your Econ discussion and lecture are mismatched. If your lecture is “CC,” you need a discussion section that is like “C7.” Your current “A7” discussion section matches up to a different section of the lecture.</p>

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<p>Thanks toms1266, I didn’t catch that haha. Heres the revised version:</p>

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<p>Has anyone tried core humanities - Ancient World? The course outline is right up my alley and I know I can fulfill my writing requirement using Core instead of WR100, but I’d like to improve my writing as well. Does Core humanities also help with writing ability?</p>

<p>Any opinions welcome.</p>

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<p>First off, be aware that you’d be overloading. The typical courseload is 4 courses, and you have chosen 5. I’m not sure if you’re even allowed to overload your first semester freshman year; even if you are, I’m sure your advisor and the orientation staff will discourage it. Honestly, I’d just start with four too to get in the groove especially if you take Biology with the lab. You always can overload later. </p>

<p>A lot of people don’t love Core. I’m sure there are those who do, but I hear a lot of negative feedback from my friends. A couple of those who aren’t during full core are dropping out of it now. In my opinion, divisional is better if you took a lot of APs or got credit before BU. I get the impression you aren’t doing full Core though and just want to use it for Writing 100? If that’s the case, it’s up to you. It can be hard to get your chosen Writing class, and they can be hit/miss. I lucked out with mine.</p>

<p>As for your scheduling, it looks good in terms of matching up lectures with discussions and all. Good choice on Watson for Economics.</p>

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<p>Thanks Lauren. I’ll rethink Core and probably move Biology to my second semester. Since I’m taking a History in roughly the same area as Ancient World, I wouldn’t mind switching to WR 100 anyway. </p>

<p>Though I do think I can handle 5 courses (if there’s anything I can do, its study), I’ll play it safe my freshman year. Good advice!</p>

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<p>If you take 5 courses they charge you more. I can’t remember if you’re allowed to take 18 or 20 credits before they charge more for the extra credits.</p>

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<p>Anyone know anything about the physics department at BU? I’m interested in majoring in physics.</p>

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<p>Is this a good schedule? Is stuff too spread out? Mostly I was concerned, when I had a choice, with trying to go for the best liked teachers on ratemyprofessor.com lol. It’s weird though cuz like all my stuff is Mon Wed Fri so Tuesday and Thursday have almost nothing. Is that normal? Also, you guys are saying you can only take 4 courses; would Bio and Chem be the only thing that count as courses here or would the writing seminar and Sargent seminar things count too? Because I want to minor in music and I’d need to be able to take those classes as well…</p>

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<p>Moxess, the amount of classes seems fine. I’d try to squish the M/W/F lectures together so you don’t have as many random one-hour breaks. For me, the best schedules have a block of classes in the morning, then a break for lunch, and then a block of classes in the afternoon. It’s not a big deal if you have less classes on Thursdays than on other days, it happens a lot because a lot of classes are only offered M/W/F.</p>

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<p>ironturtle</p>

<p>small dept, lots of professors, lots of grad students, lots of research opportunities, Junior Spring abroad at the LHC and CERN in Geneva, excellent PHD placements</p>

<p>[Welcome</a> to BU Physics (Boston University, Physics Department)](<a href=“Physics”>Physics)</p>

<p>"…We have been steadily growing over the past 15 years and now have a faculty of 38 within the department, plus 18 faculty from affiliated departments with joint appointments in Physics, and about 30 visiting researchers and postdoctoral fellows in residence. Physics at Boston University provides a stimulating environment for our approximately 100 undergraduate and 120 graduate students. Our research productivity is high, as we rank in the top 10 in private universities in statistical measures of the number of refereed papers, the number of citations per year, and critically, the number of citations per paper. In the latest US News and World Report rankings Physics ranked 36th, among the highest of all science and engineering departments at BU.</p>

<p>The Physics Department hosts state-of-the-art infrastructure for the University, including a variety of supercomputers in the Center for Computational Science, the Electronics Design Facility, and the very well-equipped Scientific Instrument Facility. Our faculty also direct the Polymer Center and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology."</p>

<p>Looks like 16-17 courses for the major (and prereqs)</p>

<p>[Sample</a> Schedule (Boston University, Physics Department)](<a href=“Physics”>Physics)</p>

<p>The lab tour sold my son</p>

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<p>Hanita: Thank you! I’ll try to fix it up a bit. And do I still have room for the Theory/Ear Training classes for a music minor?</p>

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<p>Ok so I did some stuff. How’s this?: PLEASE NOTE: I’ll have to be taking Theory and EarTraining/Sight Singing. Whether I get into Theory 1 or 3 or ET/SS 1 or 2, they’re offered at like the same time so I’d do Ear/Sight from 8:00 to 9:00 am and Theory 9:00 to 10:00am so please imagine those in there. And if you want credit for Jazz Band or Jazz Combo, you have to register for the 0 credit and the 1 credit versions, which explains that “schedule conflict” it’s showing. I think this is good because I’ll be up late on Mon and Wed and have no really early stuff Tue and Thur. All of that is assuming I get in the Jazz bands lol. So what do you think? Am I overloading or whatever?</p>

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<p>For whomever asked: one of my classes simply meets one time during the week for 3 hours, one is tuesday + thursday (with wed discussion), and the other two are MWF for one hour. Why would you take five classes? What’s the rush? As well, you want to be able to adjust to life at BU and how the academics work there in your first semester. Just chillax brah.</p>

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<p>Also, when does BU find out about our AP scores (and do they post them on Student Link?) I’m like 99% sure that I got at least 4’s on US gov, Micro and Macro econ, but I self-studied Comp Gov (and never found the curve for the test -.-) and kinda wanna know what I got before the third week in July (and I don’t wanna pay money to find out haha).</p>

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<p>You can find out your AP scores by calling college board on the first of July. Those jerks charge you $8 for the call (college board, one day you will get whats coming). So, you can choose classes accordingly after July 1. The College Board website doesn’t explicitly say when colleges receive scores ([Link](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>View Your AP Scores – AP Students | College Board)</a>), but I think its fair to say they receive them the first two weeks of July. There’s a rush delivery if you want them to get it within two days - $25. </p>

<p>I scheduled my orientation in July so I would know what my scores were before registering for classes.</p>

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<p>Hey Moxess, you cannot do that current schedule as you are only allowed to take 16 credits your first semester. They won’t even let you take the 18 credits that is allowed. But besides that, your schedule looks fine. But out of curiosity what is your major, because if your in Sargent, you usually take a different type of chemistry, known as CH 171/172. But good choice in your Chem Lecturer!!! (Abrams is the best haha, he will help you understand basically anything if you take the time to listen to him haha. Sorry for the tangent) Also a quick thing, you have up to the beginning of October? to add or drop classes. I’m only saying this because taking CH and BI at the same time will basically decimate your time. I know how you said you have nothing to do in the night, but if you wish to receive an A your going to have to put some work into both of those courses.</p>

<p>And to the kid who is planning on taking CC, all my friends who did it to eradicate, 3 classes by only taking 2, despise it. They told me that care is a complete waste of time. The only reason I would suggest on taking it, is if you have no AP credits what so ever, as it knocks our your SS requirements and HU requirements at the same time knocking out your WR 100/150 requirements.</p>