<p>would I get in trouble if I tried to drop a fig now? I've decided that I realllyy don't want to do one anymore but I think it's too late to drop one? I'm in an engineering fig</p>
<p>I think you could email an adviser to get it dropped, but I think the real problem would be getting into new classes, as your current FIG classes would probably all get dropped.</p>
<p>Why drop the FIG? If it’s to get into another class, that might be understandable. Otherwise, a FIG can only help you. Attendance isn’t even mandatory.</p>
<p>I’m in business, but this should apply to everyone. My advisor said that if you drop any fig class, which means dropping the fig, all the other fig classes are dropped as well. And it’s pretty discouraged as once you drop it, the space you held is gone. Meaning, that space can’t be filled by another student (no idea why). You may want to think hard about it if one of your fig classes is an UGS or some other class that fills up really fast. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>I would suggest staying in the FIG. I was in one my first year and it was the reason my Freshman year was amazing.It’s a built in support group since all those people in your FIG are in your classes and I learned plenty of useful things from the mentors in the FIG. Why don’t you want to do the FIG anymore?</p>
<p>I did an engineering fig. Some figs do some fun things and some don’t. I remember they took attendence the very first day and from then on they just said that you can attend the meetings if you want to. I stopped going to my fig meetings after a few weeks and it was no biggie. You might as well stay in the fig if you need the classes and then if you don’t like the fig then just don’t show up anymore.</p>
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<p>Are you sure about this? A girl in our FIG dropped one of the classes we were in last Fall, but was still enrolled in the rest. Or do the rules differ after the semester starts?</p>
<p>I’ll go into more detail about my engineering fig to hopefully help answer the above post. I did a fig this past fall for Electrical and Computer Engineering. This fig granted everyone in the fig the same electrical engineering class and computer engineering class. I talked to the lady in charge of engineering figs and she said that dropping one of my fig courses (computer engineering) will not drop me from my other fig course (electrical engineering) or the fig. Half of the fig (including me) ended up dropping computer engineering which did not do anything to the other fig class or the fig. If I chose to drop the fig, then I am pretty sure I would have lost both courses. It turned out that as opposed to dropping the fig, you can just not show up to the meetings. I don’t know if this differs for business or other colleges. I’m pretty sure that for any college, you can just not show up anymore after the first or second week if you choose to do so.</p>
<p>Weird, maybe it doesn’t apply to everyone then… Even still figs are SOSO helpful for at least reserving places in classes that are hard to get a spot in. Talk more with your counselor!</p>