<p>Hi all, I'm new to the forums and figured this was the right place for a question regarding some classes. Before I ask I'll let you guys know some background info on me. I will be a sophmore in college next semester. my major is Mechanical Engineering, although the only class I have taken towards that major is calculus 1. That being said, next fall I plan on making up ground since this year I only took generals. My question is would it be a bad idea to take Calculus based physics, Chemistry, and calculus 2 in the same semester? I did fairly well in calculus, but I'm aware that calculus 2 is harder. Thanks.</p>
<p>I took those 3 classes all at once and did fine.</p>
<p>Depends wildly on the school and your ability, but as long as you are willing to put in the hours, you should be fine.</p>
<p>That your adviser didn’t stop you from taking only general ed classes is a really big problem. You need to figure out what is going wrong in advising because something is going horribly. It might be you (not going to advising, ignoring the advise) it might be the adviser, but there is a huge problem out there. You should have at least 4 technical classes done, and ideally 5 or 6 (Calc I and II, Physics I, Chem and some type of Engineering Introductory class or programming or CAD class). If you had to take pre-calc that could explain some of it, but you still should have 2 or 3 classes.</p>
<p>This does vary by school a fair bit, but I’ve never seen an engineering program that has you at less than 3 technical classes at the end of the 1st year and most are at 4-6.</p>
<p>Yeah I know what your saying, I just switched into the major spring 10’ and I was kinda in a hole because I couldn’t take Calc based Physics because its a year long class, and chem was filled so all I got got done was calc which I did have to take precalc.</p>
<p>wow yea, if that was your advisor that let you do that I would raise hell at the adv office…that being said calc 2, chem, and physics should not be too bad, you just have to be willing to put the time in b/c the courses themselves are not terribly difficult.</p>
<p>Taking those 3 classes will be fine. When you get into your upper ME classes, you’ll be taking 3-5 per semester… and those will be much harder. Taking these 3 will be practice for later.</p>
<p>Part of being an engineering or math/science major is the ability to handle a Calculus X, a Physics X and a Engineering/Computer Science course all in the same semester/quarter.</p>