<p>When should we start thinking about and registering for courses? What types of courses should we take? Gen Ed, relating to our major, fun stuff? I’m kind of lost. Or rather, I’m kind of lazy AND lost.</p>
<p>What school are you? What classes do you want to take?</p>
<p>I'm in SEAS.</p>
<p>You didn't answer all my questions.</p>
<p>Sorry. I'm not sure what I want to take; there's a list of recommended courses for my major and no room for random courses. Should I follow the list or ignore it and follow my heart?</p>
<p>DO NOT IGNORE THE LIST.
SEAS has so many pre-requirements for almost all of its advanced classes that missing classes your first year will surely come back to haunt you. Look at the recommended courses and compare them to the required classes for your major; always make sure to stay on track by reasonably following the course guide.</p>
<p>There's pretty much no way you can put off taking the intro sciences the first year, for most majors, and you probably need 2 semesters of math too. The course guide is pretty accurate in describing what your schedule more or less needs to look like. Go take the classes you want, that's what the free credits and SSH requirements are for. But remember that there are so many required classes that build upon each other in SEAS that you will be in a big hole if you miss a few classes. </p>
<p>Actually I suggest that you plan out your four years at Penn now, to see what kind of room you have in your schedule.</p>
<p>Happy, if you want us to help you, discoluse might be useful!</p>
<p>What kind of engineering are you? What are the recommended course for first and second semester?</p>
<p>I'm doing Digital Media Design. The recommended courses are FNAR123 or FNAR264, CSE120, MATH103 or 104, PHYS003, and I want to take CINE009 to fulfill the writing requirement. What professors would you suggest? I'm worried, because on Penn Course review all the math, physics, and comp sci teachers, and even the art teachers, got very low marks.</p>
<p>Choosing professors is an indulgence freshman year rarely affords one.</p>
<p>And those classes sound pretty good....you get liberal arts classes!</p>