Class schedules

[mynameisntneo]

<p>I've been trying to wrap my head around the quarter system at Stanford, and I'm not sure I understand... could someone post an example of the classes they're taking/took this year? Like:</p>

<p>fall:
-class 1
-class 2
-class 3
-etc</p>

<p>winter:
...</p>

<p>spring:
...</p>

<p>The examples I've seen so far have either been 6 classes per quarter which seems over the top or 2 which doesn't seem reasonable.</p>

[fuzzylogic]

<p>This was posted in a different thread.</p>

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@jwj

First quarter: IHUM, PWR, and Math 51. Also had chem 31X in there for a while, but then dropped it because a) I thought it was pretty useless and b) my PWR was the worst class ever and sucked up tons of time with 0 knowledge gained.</p>

<p>Second quarter: IHUM, Chem 33, Med seminar, Stats 60</p>

<p>Third quarter: IHUM, Chem 35, CS 106A, CS106A independent study

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@Sly Si

Fall quarter: IHUM, Math 50H series, Physics 60 series</p>

<p>Winter quarter: Add a 1-unit physics lab and a math introsem</p>

<p>Spring quarter: Replace introsem with PWR, lab becomes 2 units

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@SalikSyed

Here's my schedule, not intense, but not really easy either. I'll include a kind of synopsis of my experience with each class Fall: Intro Sem (music dept) : Experimental instruments You get to build your own instruments, it was a fun class but a little too abstract and free-spirited for my taste basically the professor considered everything to be music (noise, scratching etc.) but he was a nice guy and very talented And thus anything really could be an instrument, they weren't traditional instruments.</p>

<p>Math 51: This class was very hard at first but everything came together by the end of the quarter ( a little to late ), I only took Calculus AB and got a 5, never took BC. I didn't know how to prove things (even very simple things) and I just was freaking slacker and did a sh--ty job on my homework, forgot to turn in some assignments. I hadn't really adjusted to the college level of work. I did ace the final miraculously and ended up getting a B+</p>

<p>IHUM Art Of Living (Great course! btw, I highly recommend it!) I didn't ever go to lecture, i did skim through most of the books and they were very interesting, especially Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. The class centered around philosophy and I had an amazing TF, so section was alway engaging and I think I learned alot about different ways of looking at life.</p>

<p>CS106a (see above) I'm lazy so i'm not gonna write a description for these: Winter: PWR (lots of work) IHUM Worlds Of Islam (Sucks so far, horrible teaching fellows and dense readings)</p>

<p>CS106x (pretty easy) CS103a (very easy)</p>

<p>Oh and if you want to jump into CS107 you should have experience with this stuff: Data Structures (Trees, Maps, Queues, Stacks, Linked Lists) and how to implement them Recursion Inheritence Pointers

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@celestial605

My first quarter: IHUM: Conflict, Cooperation, and Human Nature (no longer offered) CHEM31X BIOSCI20: Brain and Behavior CEE80N (I think): The Art of Structural Engineering

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[marlgirl]

<p>Freshman year</p>

<p>Fall:
IHUM: Human and Machine
Math 51
Physics 61 </p>

<p>Winter:
IHUM: The Fate of Reason
PWR 1
Math 52
Physics 63
Physics 64 (1 unit lab) </p>

<p>Spring:
IHUM: The Fate of Reason
Gay Autobiography (intro sem)
Physics 65
Physics 67 (2-unit lab)</p>

<p>Sophomore year</p>

<p>Fall:
Physics 105
Math 131
PWR 2
Social Dance 1
Physics 59 (1 unit course) </p>

<p>Winter:
Physics 112
Physics 120
Game Theory and Mathematical Models of Politics (intro sem)
Social Dance 2
Physics 41N (1 unit intro sem) </p>

<p>Spring:
Physics 110
Physics 121
History of Social Dance in Western Culture (2 unit class)
Core Peer Counseling Skills
Peer Counseling at the Bridge </p>

<p>My schedule is probably pretty normal, except for this spring when I'm taking it easy :) If you can call two upper division physics classes easy...</p>