<p>I want 3BL Lab 511 or 512, which are on Friday afternoons. Is this lab phase 1 worthy?</p>
<p>Other courses</p>
<p>Chem 3B
French 3
Latin 1
IB 160 Evolution (this class is a required course for all IB graduate students, so it will fill)</p>
<p>Definitely, as it is only 2 units so you can still sign up for 2 other 4 unit classes during Phase I. My experience with Chemistry classes has been: if you are in the lab, then you'll have no problem getting into the lecture.</p>
<p>The problem is that I have to phase 1 French, or I won't get in; that's five units right there. 5+2=7. 3.5 units left for phase 1 at that point.</p>
<p>Chem 3BL doesn't have to be taken concurrently with Chem 3B-- you can take it the following semester or whenever you choose to as long as you have finished Chem 3B. So, it doesn't matter if you sign up for it in phase 1 or phase 2. But if you insist on taking it in the same semester, then phase 2 it since there are 2 sections of it (almost 750 spaces).</p>
<p>By the way, good luck taking Chem 3B with Vollhardt.</p>
<p>It might turn out to be Viernes. It said Vollhardt on Fall 2007 but Viernes ended up teaching us that semester. If you want to get into a specific section, then you must sign up for in Phase 1. In fact, the lab fills up real fast, so you should Phase 1 it.</p>
<p>though would a Friday section actually fill up in phase 1? I am in a Chem 1A Friday lab this semester (taking 3A in summer), and my lab section didn't fill up until well past my phase 2.</p>
<p>isn't chem 3b only 3 units? so maybe you can try french, chem 3b/bl</p>
<p>is vollhardt really that bad? i heard pederson is teaching 3b over the summer but its all full so i'm planning to take 3b/bl in the fall. on pickaprof it says vollhardt actually gives about 5% more A's, but about 15% less B's. how's viernes?</p>
<p>I don't know, when I took Chem 3BL, the labs filled up real fast, even the Friday ones. I saw a bunch of people being turned away on the first day of classes. And 3bL is 2 units.
I heard bad things about Vollhardt, like how he uses PowerPoint to teach o-chem, which sounds really stupid.
Viernes is all right, he's really boring but he is thorough in his lectures. Definitely not as good as Frechet, but he is tolerable. He is very picky on his midterms, so you have to watch out what you write on his exams. There is also a project that you have to do on a chemistry paper, but that wasn't too bad. All in all, Viernes was a good but not spectacular professor.</p>
<p>I had Frechet for 3A and Viernes for 3B. Viernes isn't terrible. He's not very lively (especially when you just finished with Frechet), but his midterms are fair and not that difficult. If you develop good study habits, getting an A is pretty easy... there's nothing intrinsically difficult about Viernes's class.</p>
<p>Just intrinsically difficult about organic chemistry.</p>
<p>Right. O-chem isn't an easy class no matter who you have it with... I just meant that I don't think Viernes does anything that makes it more challenging than it should be.</p>
<p>so is this ok?</p>
<p>freshman year:
fall
- chem 1a</p>
<p>spring
- chem 3a+lab</p>
<p>summer
- chem 3b+lab
- bio 1b+lab</p>
<p>sophomore year:
fall
- bio 1a+lab
- physics 8a+lab</p>
<p>spring
- physics 8b</p>
<p>umm Bio 1B and Chem 3B don't mix well in a semester, they are totally immiscible in the summer. You will have lab every day M-Th.</p>
<p>Also chem labs suck in the summer. Assuming you are premed (actually even if you aren't) and you want to take something next summer, do this. (Bio 1B labs are built into Bio 1B and Physics 8A-B)</p>
<p>freshman year:
fall
- chem 1a</p>
<p>spring
- chem 3a+lab
- bio 1b</p>
<p>summer
-chem 3b+lab or bio 1a+lab</p>
<p>sophomore year:
fall</p>
<h2>- bio 1a+lab or chem 3b+lab</h2>
<p>spring
- physics 8a</p>
<p>summer or following fall
- physics 8b</p>
<p>You need to know your physics for the MCAT. Taking it earlier makes you more prone to forget it.</p>
<p>BTW if you are premed you will need a fourth semester of chemistry somewhere. Generally, I hear people take MCB 102 or MCB C100A (aka Chem C130).</p>