<p>This isn't your typical question about transferring. What I really want to know is how are the classes compared to community colleges?
Is it a lot more competitive and a lot more studying compared to community colleges?
Has your lifestyle changed because of this?
You guys should have taken your midterms already so how are they compared to tests at community colleges?
To the UC students: Is the "theory" approach to everything a lot more different than one would expect?</p>
<p>A whole lot more studying, on average im reading 500 pages a week. I had two take home midterms and 1 in class midterm. My history of East Africa midterm was a killer, two essay questions that came out to be 18 pages long. My History of California midterm was manageable only 8 pages long. While my easiest midtem was the in class, only six identification questions that required writing 3-4 sentences about each topic.</p>
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A whole lot more studying, on average im reading 500 pages a week. I had two take home midterms and 1 in class midterm. My history of East Africa midterm was a killer, two essay questions that came out to be 18 pages long. My History of California midterm was manageable only 8 pages long. While my easiest midtem was the in class, only six identification questions that required writing 3-4 sentences about each topic.
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<p>One reason why I am NOT majoring in history ;)
I think the responses would vary by major.
Now.. I'd like to know how a typical economics (BizEcon to be more specific) classes are like at UCLA and/or UCB.. and USC (Business).</p>
<p>It depends...in my upper division cultural geography class at UCLA, there's massive amounts of REALLY dense reading, but my professor gives us the midterm questions ahead of time. The reading is definitely a lot more, but if you know how to utilize study groups and do selective reading, it won't be that bad. My classes are pretty large- 100+, so there's very little discussion, and I haven't had any discussion classes yet.</p>
<p>Yes I am a history major and class size varies. For instance one of my classes contains about 180 students, while another one contains only 25. Also dont let the enormous amount of reading scare you a lot of it is interesting. Speaking on the topic of books, one thing that suprised me was how much my books cost. Coming from a JC where the price of books is ridiculous, I was shocked when I only paid 210 dollars for 15 books. Although some of them are paperback and novels I still consider this a deal.</p>
<p>eh.. i never purchase textbook from school bookstore... online always beats it with price.
the delivery time can be irritating sometimes, especially when it is late, it's always good to know that I'm saving literally hundres of bucks for doing it.</p>
<p>Now that the first quarter is over, any thoughts and reflections? How did you guys get on your first quarter report card? Any feedback? Was the final a lot harder or easier since its only been a couple weeks since you've learned the material?</p>