<p>No more questions? Come on 10,000 hits!</p>
<p>Ok, Moat, since you asked for it, what was the exact day you got your rooming details last year? Or as best you can remember? Sorry Im very obsessed and anticipating this impatiently!</p>
<p>Not til August for sure. Probably not til the second week of August. Don't worry though, now that everyone has thefacebook pre-arrival it will be easy to contact your roomate and see exactly what kind of annoying music they like to listen to. Just kidding.</p>
<p>Haha, I listen to Country, among many other more palatable genres...But yeah my roomie definitely needs to be forewarned about that....</p>
<p>Ummmmmmmmm, also, how strict are they with prerequisites for certain classes...Like for every psychology class in the department, they claim to require Psych 1, even though a class like Intro to Sleep does not depend on any psych 1 material....how flexible do you think they would be with letting someone into a class like Intro to Sleep without the prereq?</p>
<p>I know a ton of people who took Intro to Sleep who had never taken Psych 1. I'd shop the class and see how it is, if it looks like you'll be ok without the stated prereq then go for it, but if it seems over your head then maybe don't. You could also talk to the prof.</p>
<p>How common is it that classes are closed to people who want to shop? Do any get filled before shopping period? Like Intro to Sleep, specifically? Sorry for all the ?s!</p>
<p>Everyone is allowed to shop all classes, unless its a strictly capped class with just 15 people or something like that. Intro to Sleep is not like that (I know because it used to meet after Intro to MCM). Also remember that people who are preregistered for a class may end up dropping it during shopping period. I wouldn't worry about getting into any class, especially not Intro to Sleep, unless it was a strictly capped class like a small seminar like a writing class or TA3.</p>
<p>At Brown, can students from different classes request to live together ON campus, i.e., if I'm going to be a sophomore can I room with someone who is going to be a junior?</p>
<p>Yep, it would be great for you also because then you would get a better number in the lottery. I know a few people who ended up living with upperclassmen and got GREAT rooms. As a freshman of course, you have to live with freshmen.</p>
<p>Ok so I have a question. I went to <a href="http://registration.brown.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://registration.brown.edu/</a> and saw the classes I registered for.</p>
<p>One has under Permission:</p>
<p>Required and Filed</p>
<p>Does this mean that the permission was granted, or that it's being processed?</p>
<p>Honestly, I have no clue. You'll likely find out for sure when you go to class, just ask the professor if they know or if you need permission for the class. But I wouldn't worry too much, it sounds like the permission was granted to me.</p>
<p>Thanks MTM. Sounds to me like I have a spot, even if the paper work isn't completely through (my concern was that I didn't get one of the 20 available spots per section).</p>
<p>Someone I just spoke to said he had two classes, "Required and Not Filed" and one "Required and Filed" so that further comforts me.</p>
<p>Nice to see the lab section I wanted listed next to my Chem too. Even if it doesnt mean much, it does mean less hurdles during shopping period making sure I can switch to a better day.</p>
<p>Yeah, with the lab section you'll probably have to sign up again in class, but you'll likely have an easier time with it since you're already "registered" for the lab you want.</p>
<p>I took intro to sleep during my first semester at Brown and it was honestly one of the most boring experiences of my entire life. The lectures were insufferable and the fact that they happened once a week for two and a half hours at a time did not make the situation any better.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the material offered in the course was so damn interesting, I still remember most of it today although my major coursework had nothing whatsoever to do with that area of psych. Once I got past the disaster of the in-class time, the time I spent on my own working on the material was actually great. part of that can be chalked up to having had a study group full of people in my dorm, and we split up the material and sort of motivated each other to push through it.</p>
<p>Neither here nor there, I guess--I suppose in the end I would recommend the course for the material--but be forewarned, Mary Carskadon is drab at best despite her brilliance and how well-celebrated she is in the field.</p>
<p>As for permission and what it says online, don't worry about it at ALL. What it says about permission turned out to be completely inconsequential, to the extent that if you come to the end of the semester and it says "permission not filed" but your prof gives you a grade, then that's it, you have the grade and it doesn't matter whether you got a permission slip signed or what. No one really has any idea what any of that stuff means, and Moat is right--your prof will tell you what you need to do once you are in the class. But don't sweat what it says online, as long as you are preregistered for the correct classes.</p>
<p>I have heard very iffy things about the Sleep class which was aptly named.</p>
<p>Thanks Lisa.</p>
<p>I emailed the registrars office last night, figured, why not.</p>
<p>Got a quick response today that said I am all set on all my classes.</p>
<p>So that's pretty cool.</p>
<p>Yeah, I've heard that the prof for intro to sleep is incredibly important in her field and a nice lady, but that the class doesn't need labs because you sleep enough during lecture.</p>
<p>I distinctly remember her making a lecture-topic-related example of someone she caught falling asleep in class. It was something about what point in the process of falling asleep you stop being able to hear and comprehend your auditory environment...she walked right up to him and woke him up and asked him if he remembered what she had said 7 minutes earlier, and he didn't (surprise), and she explained when she had seen him nod off and how it related to what she was talking about.</p>
<p>One of the funniest things I have ever experienced in class.</p>
<p>Incidentally, while we are talking about course selection, there is one professor I cannot recommend highly enough, and that is Michael Vorenberg of the history department. I was not a history concentrator and I didn't take a class with him until my final semester at Brown, but honest to goodness, if I had stumbled upon him sooner, I seriously might have concentrated in history. He is the most charismatic, funny, intelligent, and helpful professor I have ever had, bar none. He could make watching paint dry the most interesting thing in the world, and that is a quality to be appreciated in a history professor. He teaches civil war (I think), American legal history, and other random classes as they come up. Take a class with him. TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM.</p>