<p>I was wondering if some engineering students could help me with my schedule! I was planning on taking math 53, E7, E28, and Anthro R5B next semester. I'm taking E28 over Physics 7B because I don't want an 8am or spelio. So I'm just going to take 7B next year. I was just curious as to whether this schedule would be too hard and thinking about the future, whether math 54, 7B, and ME40 together would be too hard. Thanks!</p>
<p>You must be a MechE. I myself took Anthro R5B two springs ago, yay!</p>
<p>Since I’m pretty old and experienced almost all the good and bad of the ME curriculum, the best advice I can give you is to spread out your upper-div courses. The lower-division courses are really easy compared to upper-division courses that it is ‘wasteful’ to take the lower-divs all at once. (of course you don’t realize this now, but you’ll understand me a couple of years from now) You should take the math classes and E7 and ME C85 as soon as possible, but some courses like E28, ME40 or even physics 7B can wait a while and it is ideal if you can split up those classes and take it at a later semester. In that empty class slot, you swap it with courses like ME104 and ME132 that has monster weekly problem sets which takes a LOT time.</p>
<p>Most MechE students take all the lower-divs before the end of their second year and as they take ME104, ME106, ME132, and another course all in one semester in their 3rd year, doing poorly in at least one course is just inevitable for most of them since the difficulty and the time you need to study on it rises up exponentially compared to the lower-division courses.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, salvage your lower-division courses and take it along with other difficult upper-division courses. Plus it feels special to be the young one in a class of old students and vice versa.</p>
<p>i heard e28 and e7 are both hard and a lot of work. the upper div classes are thaat much harder/ more time consuming??</p>
<p>E28 and E7 may seem like a lot of work. Once you hit the upper-division courses, you realize it wasn’t. I mean, for lower-divs, you can at least put a lot of time and eventually you will get the homework done, but for upper-division classes you will need office hours and outside help almost every single week; just putting the time is not enough b/c it’s that hard.</p>