Can you take two classes that conflict each other?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>My ECE 35 and PHYS 2B lectures are both at 9:00 AM on Tues and I was wondering if UCSD forces you to change your schedule or can you just keep it? I was planning on just never attending the PHYS lecture and just do the readings from the book.</p>

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<p>Did that last quarter with ECE15 and Math20A; I had to miss math lecture once a week for ECE15 discussion. They didn't care. I don't know about missing all lectures though.</p>

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<p>lol i mean just missing the Tuesday PHYS 2B lecture</p>

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<p>they won't do anything; for an entire quarter i went to my roommate's TA training seminar and signed her in so she could go to cell bio.</p>

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<p>Only time I care is when the two finals are scheduled at the same time. I did it once with POLI13 and some Math upper. The only reason I kept them is because I knew the final was a paper.</p>

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<p>There are two things ton consider: make sure midterms are not on same day and time and the same applies to the final exams. Other than that, you're good to go. I would also let the TAs know as well especially if they only take homework at the conflicted lecture time.</p>

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<p>2B doesn't have a midterm but you should make sure that your professor doesn't have a quiz on Tuesdays. If you have Grinstein, however, you should be fine since he has quizzes on Fridays.</p>

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<p>yeah i have grinstein... but i heard his quizzes are harder than the other professor's quizzes? :O</p>

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<p>His quizzes are hard, but that's just physics in general. You get a cheat sheet, make good use of it. What REALLY sucks about Grinstein is the homework; it's unnecessarily tough and there's a lot of it.</p>

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<p>ah i see.. thanks for the info
can i also ask if he does curves? and if so would it be based on the students' grades?</p>

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<p>if it's not based on class performance, how is it still curving?</p>

<p>fwiw, every single one of my professors curved final grades based on student scores. some classes weren't necessary (like if the prof had been teaching long enough to know how to write good exams), and others had depressing ideas of what curves were like (ie, hum).</p>