<p>Soccer players: which of firm ground or hard ground cleats would you recommend? Thanks!</p>
<p>^(for the grounds at Berkeley)</p>
<p>heeey guys,</p>
<p>i’m trying to find a reading & composition class to enroll in, has anybody taken Raisch, J for com lit, or Ben Cullen… Ruth Baldwin?</p>
<p>my first choice (english r1a with Jordan) is full and i’m on the waitlist, how much chance do i have?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>R&C classes are the least likely to clear someone in from the waitlist. </p>
<p>however, there are so many options in R&C courses, don’t fixate on the english and comp lit classes as every R&C is fully in English and many are interesting in their own right.</p>
<p>Are there no options for international students to get aid there?</p>
<p>quick question:
I’m enrolled in MCB32 Lab Lec & lab, but I need to switch my lab section to a different one. I tried doing that on telebears but it wouldn’t let me. the lab section I want to switch into has 2 open seats and a waitlist. so how do I switch? do I have to wait until semester starts? thanks.</p>
<p>Your problem is that you waited until Phase I ended and Phase II started. You are again locked out of registering until your telebears appointment time. Once that time arrives, you can switch, plus any time from then onwards you can switch (if openings exist) during open hours, plus when Phase II ends you enter the Adjustment period where you can switch during your hours of access each day. Finally, when class starts there is usually some method to switch you can work with the GSIs, although it may only be permitted if you can find someone in the other section who agrees to swap places with you on a 1 to 1 basis, but at least that method does not require an open space first.</p>
<p>@rider730
thanks for answering my question…however I actually tried to do the switch during my phase II appointment (which was yesterday the 15th).
anyhow…I’ll keep your suggestion in mind ;)</p>
<p>The labs are all full, at least today, in spite of the schedule listing showing many with 2 to 4 open seats. </p>
<p>Did you verify that there were really spaces open - not just that the schedule listing said there were 2 open, but that you clicked further on the Click Here for Current Enrollment Information link to get the ‘live’, current status? The numbers shown on the display from schedule.berkeley.edu are generally from the morning or perhaps even from the last weekday night, after which time there could have been people registering or waitlist members clearing. </p>
<p>Telebears is the source of the live info from the link I referenced above. If the actual space was zero in the sections, then telebears won’t allow you to switch (obviously). The only way I can see to force something would be to gamble, drop the class entirely, then register putting yourself on the waitlist. You would be in a lower position on the waitlist, might not get into the lab at all, and in the worst case could find the waitlists all full blocking you from registering at all, but that would be the upfront way to do this.</p>
<p>Basically you need to haunt the live status, using the link, NOT telebears itself or you run the risk of hitting the max logins limit for the phase. When you are approaching open hours and you spot a lab with an opening, using that link, you can try to snag it by logging in at the start of open hours. Since the waitlist isn’t cleared until the weekend during phase II, you can jump the queue as long as there are openings at the start of open hours.</p>
<p>@rider730 I see! Thanks. To be hoenst, I didn’t know about the “live status” link so I thought there were open seats. I guess I’ll have to talk to my GSI or whoever in charge about the possibility of switching into another lab section. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Hi, my college is a partner school and I’m currently studying in Europe. I’m trying to go to Berkeley for a year on exchange and I wanted to know what the pre-law program was like. Anything on bio-ethics, intellectual property?</p>
<p>There’s no pre-law program at Cal or the States for law schools anyway. I’m a Legal Studies major and all the classes are taught by professors at the law school, as it’s the undergraduate program of Berkeley Law. The closest classes to bio-ethics or IP that I’ve seen are Law and Property I/II. Other courses tend to focus on theory or are very, very specific. For example, I took a course from a visiting Israeli professor on Israeli National Security Law.</p>
<p>Hi</p>
<p>I would like some information about the music and spanish programs at UCB. It’d be awesome if someone enrolled in these programs can give me an idea of what I’ll be encountering (I’ve heard UCB is pretty intense but just for certain majors).</p>
<p>I’m a transfer student,</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Just a 2 general questions: How many units do students generally take a semester? I know the number required to graduate (assuming you came with no credits) is 15 units/sem, but is it common to have a 17 unit courseload per semeste soph and junior year? And what is the general benchmark for “too many units”? 19?</p>
<p>Do students take it easy senior year on the courseload (because of grad programs, etc?)</p>
<p>thanks! i realize this is really general, but id like to know nevertheless</p>
<p>It really depends on what you can handle. Also, the unit counts of courses are not always the best indicator of workload. For example, science with lab, art studio, music performance, computer science with programming, and large term project courses can be more time consuming per unit than courses that are just lecture and discussion with tests and smaller assignments (math, economics, etc.).</p>
<p>I see, thanks. Also, can you tell me the workload for seniors second semester? Is it the same for all the other semesters or do they lighten up. (grad programs start fall after senior year right?</p>
<p>what are some easy classes to take? or any recommendations on classes that don’t require that much of a workload? yes i already know about decals and seminars, but im looking for actual classes, not about anything specific in particular. thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>I am a new OOS MechE major this fall, and I am currently getting somewhat tele-screwed for two classes, my chem requirement and elective. I am 28th on the waitlist for the only Chem 1A lecture that my schedule makes it possible to take, with a class size of 523. This is the tough one; this is a required class and i could theoretically pass it with the 3 I got on the AP test way back in sophomore year but I’m not sure if that would be a good idea. I’m already enrolled in a Chem 1AL lab; will that help my chances? Should I just skip the class and hope that I know enough for when ME40 rolls around?
Also, I’m 13th on the waitlist for Geography 70AC, which has a class size of 110. Is it reasonable to assume that I’ll get in if I attend the class? As of now (the end of my Phase II Telebears) I am enrolled in History 7A; I would much rather take Geog 70AC but would not be opposed to taking 70AC in the spring. Should I drop Hist 7A now and just attend Geog 70AC? I plan on taking this elective, whatever it is, pass/not pass.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Royal28</p>
<p>Would anyone please check my schedule to see if it’s just right or too easy? cuz I see a lot of other people’s schedules and theirs are way tougher than mine, which makes me a little nervous.</p>
<p>The following is my schedule
CHEM 1AL 1 unit (I’m taking the lecture this summer)
English R1A 4 units
MATH 53 4 units (I got a 5 on AP calculus BC exam)
NUSCTX 10 3 units
MCELLBI 90D 1 unit (seminar)</p>
<p>A total of 13 units, should I add an extra course, or I’m fine?? Thanks for everyone’s help.</p>
<p>Chemistry 1AL is probably more work than its 1 unit indicates. 1 unit is supposed to indicate 3 total hours of work per week, but Chemistry 1AL’s lab session is itself 3 hours, so if there is any out of class work needed like writing up lab reports, then it will be more work than its 1 unit indicates.</p>
<p>For math, you may want to check some old final exams to check your calculus knowledge:
[Choosing</a> an Appropriate First Math Course — UC Berkeley College of Engineering](<a href=“http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/new-students/choosing-an-appropriate-first-math-course.html]Choosing”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/new-students/choosing-an-appropriate-first-math-course.html)</p>