<p>The course i like is taught by a Buhle. He's a socialist and i havent had good experiences with those people... living in the USSR and all. </p>
<p>How much time do we get to have to drop a class if i find out that my CAP prof is a douchebag</p>
<p>Rabo: "The Idea of Self" sounds like a LOT of reading</p>
<p>There are so many awesome courses! How do they expect us to choose just 32?</p>
<p>Bull: My understanding is that once you're assigned to a CAP course, it's final. But someone correct me if I'm wrong about that.</p>
<p>In theory, it is final. But as a practical matter, that is simply not true. You'll find that a great deal of things at Brown work like this, and I love it.</p>
<p>(A point of note though: Buhle is supposed to be great)</p>
<p>BullMoose: I know, and if I can't put up with reading, I honestly don't know what I would study. I made a list of all the courses I might potentially take in my first semester, and none of them were math or science. Therefore, reading is kind of a given for me. At least the reading list for that course looked interesting and I know the prof is awesome.</p>
<p>baobab: If I get into my first choice cap class, i'll be in 3 classics courses first semester. Whoops. I feel no shame. If I wanted to take a mandatory wide range of courses, I would have applied to Columbia or someplace with a massive core.</p>
<p>Baobob: Any course numbered over 100 is advanced and probably has prerequisites before you can take it, meaning you probably can't take it first semester. Is English 171 a CAP course or first year seminar? (I highly doubt it). You should be looking at courses numbered 0-99, as these are the ones intended for undergrads, especially lower classmen.</p>
<p>Did you guys read the entire guide on CAP courses and such, or do you all just naturally understand this?</p>
<p>I want mine! <em>sniff</em></p>
<p>yea amor.. i read the "guide to liberal learning"... took about half an hour and cleared up all these questions</p>
<p>I scanned it, but got bored. Got the gist and moved on.</p>
<p>when is the deadline for all this stuff, i.e. when should i start to worry that I still haven't gotten it.</p>
<p>Deadline is June 29. You can register online, if you want. The course descriptions are on boca.brown.edu. There's probably a description of CAP online too.</p>
<p>Many of the English seminars require "written permission." Where do we get this written permission? When? Who from?</p>
<p>Edit: Rabo, how do you register for courses online? Do we have to wait until we get our Net ID?</p>
<p>No, you register with your first and last name and your email address and make yourself a password. So technically I guess you could register as someone else, although I don't know why you would.</p>
<p>your regular e-mail address or your Brown e-maill address.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone else feel like signing up for courses without having spoken to/met your advisor could be a bad idea?</p>
<p>Regular email address. It speciifies summer email.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, none of this is set in stone except for maybe the CAP course, because that determines your adviser.</p>
<p>Has anyone figured out a good starting place to enter into biology at Brown? Either BIO 19 or BIO 20 seems logical to me, but I'm not sure which would be a wiser choice. Does anyone have any insight?</p>
<p>I have the same question except for neuro...</p>
<p>On the website, Intro to Neuro is recommended as a good point of entry, assuming you have a strong high school background in bio & chem.</p>