<p>Hey, so it looks like you guys are arguing about he said she said business over the units. I decided to take 22 units because I felt like it. I do better under stress and I get better grades when I take more classes. I know, I am weird…I am such a nerd. I agree, someone could take 4 (5 unit) classes which is equivalent to 20 units vs. someone who takes 7 (3 unit) classes…which is 21 units. Obviously the person with the 4 classes, five units each will probably have a much more difficult time. I was dedicated to school and work this semester. &nd, hopefully I can be a role model to everyone. It’s not about being smart, it’s about WORKING HARD. Good luck everyone! =]</p>
<p>@Pinoiako916 The dividing line between bioengineering and biomedical engineering depends on the school. At UCSD bioengineering is synonymous with biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>7 Units, was actually my toughest 4.0 semester yet (had the same professor for both and he was pretty tough). Looks like I maintained my GPA for UCLA .</p>
<p>Marine Biology: A
Cultural Anthropology: A
Statistics: A
English 205: B</p>
<p>I was like NOOOO when I saw that B, since it marked the difference between a 3.8ish and a 3.7ish, which is the 1st GPA I’ll be reporting when I apply for Fall '12.</p>
<p>Differential Equations: Waiting. 75% chance B, 25% chance A
Discrete Math: B
Physics (E&M): C</p>
<p>My Physics teacher was totally unreasonable. Aside from one person everyone else that got an A had taken the class before somewhere else.</p>
<p>I’m also ecstatic that my community college days are over with ^_^</p>
<p>@ UCKitty: Do some investigation and find yourself easier teachers/classes. More than one of my friends ended up taking classes at another nearby college and was surprised to find that all of their problems were black, their hard ones were blue. At my college, the rare easy problems were blue and most were red. (Black = easy, blue = medium, red = sorta hard, red with a dot = you’re probably going to hit cramster). Half the problems were red with a dot ;)</p>
<p>The lectures can also hold a ton of weight - A lot of physics teachers seem to feel its their life’s duty to show you the derivation of every last formula - usually at the cost of not driving the concept into your head that’s necessarily to solve any related problem. (Oh! Read the book! … shouldn’t the proof be in the book and the concept taught in class? Oh… that’s how it’s done… so we have two redundant crappy sources. Grr)</p>
<p>Then again, it may be that they are hired for their excellent math/physics skills but since they thought basic things such as critical thinking and English were “useless liberal arts crap”, they also became horrible teachers >></p>
<p>UCKitty: in the physics book our school was using, black = easy/normal, blue = slightly more challenging, red = quite a bit more challenging, red dot = the kind where you have to think outside the box and be very familiar with the underlying concepts to solve it. </p>
<p>What I was saying, is some teachers/colleges prefer the red/red dot types and others simply give out black problems with an occasional blue. In the case of my friends, they both said that the other colleges used different books, but the problems were nowhere near as difficult. </p>
<p>I even remember one teacher would regularly pull questions from tests that came from MIT teachers. The problem is, that’s MIT - your grades are community college grades and will be regarded as such when you transfer. What your teacher deems as acceptable with a C, might be underestimated by another school when they see “community college” in the name.</p>
<p>The point is you want to be careful - it’s never black and white where an easy teacher will not teach you the necessities and a hard one will teach you well. I had the luck to take one of the “easier” calc 2 teachers at my college and remembered far more from that class, than I did from the “thorough” calc 1 teacher I had. I ended up having to relearn half the stuff he taught us later on because I was so stressed by his asinine teaching tactics lol.</p>
<p>Some teachers can make a hard subject easier, others … well. Calc 3 for example, you’ll have to have an open heart and a tight upper lip because the MIT lectures and the lecturer I had were about the same in quality (but lots of people hated my teacher). He was actually very reasonable though :)</p>
<p>Thing is, when you apply to a college they see grades, they don’t interview you and they don’t check your teachers out.</p>
<p>Honors Organic Chemistry: A (5 units)
Analytical Chemistry: A (4 units)
Calculus: A (4 units)
Biopsychology: A (3 units)
Biopsychology Lab: A (1 unit)
Intro to Atheism: A (3 units)</p>
<p>@wwlink
Sounds like my physics prof lol…
They way he teaches his class is a C meant you understood everything taught to you and you understood it well.
An A means you can teach physics… too bad its only the grade that carrys over :(.</p>
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