<p>I am enrolled for Orientation session 103 and just want some reassurance or clarifications. I am admitted into Chemical Engineering and want Civil Engineering now, can this be done at orientation so I sign up for all the correct classes. </p>
<p>Also I have the engineering announcement book showing what courses I should be taking, how do I make sure I get good teachers etc. Do I just search the classes on bruinwalk and find good teachers then at orientation try and get these or what? How can I avoid getting stuck with bad professors?</p>
<p>Will I get the classes I need since I am not in the first two sessions.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>you will most likely still get into the classes you need. maybe not your exact desired discussion and/or lecture, but they should still be pretty open for 103 (i went to 103). as for professors, just check the registrar to see who will be teaching, then look them up on bruinwalk and go from there. but sometimes you just cant avoid taking a bad professor unless you wait till another quarter.</p>
<p>ok thanks a lot! anyone else want to comment?</p>
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I am enrolled for Orientation session 103 and just want some reassurance or clarifications. I am admitted into Chemical Engineering and want Civil Engineering now, can this be done at orientation so I sign up for all the correct classes.</p>
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<p>YES, at BH6426.</p>
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Also I have the engineering announcement book showing what courses I should be taking, how do I make sure I get good teachers etc. Do I just search the classes on bruinwalk and find good teachers then at orientation try and get these or what? How can I avoid getting stuck with bad professors?</p>
<p>Will I get the classes I need since I am not in the first two sessions.</p>
<p>Thanks
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<p>You will get your courses, and exactly what VTEC said. There are no bad professors your first quarter usually. Either a difficult professor where you learn a lot, an easy professor where you don't learn much, or somewhere in between. Bruinwalk is the only resource people use to find out about professors outside of through networking.</p>
<p>If you get a "bad professor", either read the book a lot more, go to OH (a "bad" professor has the credetial to teach at UCLA; he/she is obviously able to present math at a highly intellectual level), or just keep studying so you can beat the other students who use the "bad" professor as an excuse to do poorly.</p>
<p>That's my advice for success.</p>
<p>Also, never try a study group; it doesn't work. Study groups are for slackers who study last minute and try to leech the top students for answers (but eventually fail).</p>
<p>You won't have to worry much about choosing the right classes. The prereqs for chem and civil engineer should be very similar, if not the same. (ie, physics series, math series, chem series, etc.) There's no hurry to officially change your major.</p>
<p>My advice is to look up the classes you want the day before you go to orientation, and try to plan out a schedule. Have a few back up classes in case you don't get into your top choices. And yeah, Bruinwalk's a pretty good way to gauge which professors are "good" or "bad".</p>