<p>As an engineering student who just finished his first year, I would recommend taking either Phys211 or ME170 your second semester. If you look at the curriculum track for your engineering discipline, I am almost positive that most of them say to take Physics211 second semester.</p>
<p>What you’re doing is compressing the already difficult 4 year program into a smaller time frame when there isn’t really a need to do so. You aren’t hurt in any way by taking Physics second semester and I’m fairly sure ME is a sophomore level course anyway.</p>
<p>It will be difficult to juggle the labs, and even harder with the extra classes. Do you have any gen-eds you haven’t satisfied yet? You could substitute in one of those. Also, take a look at minor degrees and see if you could fit in an intro class for that minor instead. </p>
<p>I’m sure most CCers don’t care about this part - but your social life will take a huge hit. If you are interested in fraternity/club life, I guarantee that when making the decision, your amount of work will be a factor. Sure, you can go out once or twice a week, but until you live down there…you won’t understand how little that actually is.</p>
<p>There are many different types of students, and it is all based on your personality and what you want out of college. Just know that harder classes will take their toll on social life, it just depends how much you’re willing to sacrifice. </p>
<p>My experience from these classes:</p>
<p>102/103 will depend on when your last chem class was and how well you did. Took AP chem and only got a 4?(Or 3, whichever one doesn’t give you credit, I don’t even know.) Then you should be fine. For me, my last chem class was a regular class my sophomore year of HS, and I had some difficulty with the class. It’s a decent amount of work if you’re unfamiliar with it.</p>
<p>Phys 211 - Pretty easy, but never take a class for granted. Average amount of work, if you took a good physics class in HS you will likely have seen 70% of the material before. Weekly quizzes in discussion sections. </p>
<p>Engineering 101…it’s a pass/fail class that has no effect on your GPA. It is for engineering students who have ABSOLUTELY no idea what is going on in each field and is designed for them to get an idea. A representative from a different department comes in each week. You do nothing more than show up and take 2 online quizzes that can done in about 5 mins each completely with google. I would only take this if you have no idea what engineering you want to do. Otherwise just meet with each department individually.</p>