<p>First off I'm a sophomore chemE at purdue. I want to drop physics (electricity & optics) because the professor blows, and because I don't think I can handle the course right now (forgot most of my calculus 1/calculus 2 material..will remember it quickly though). I got a C in mechanics.</p>
<p>I'm facing a moral dilemma.. basically I can have either 14 credits this semester, or 17 for both semesters. If I do 14 credits now, I have to take online courses over summer to make up for 3 credits in gen-eds. </p>
<p>My question is, which of the following schedules would be tougher:</p>
<p>3rd semester
CHE 200 - Seminar - 0 cr
CHE 205 - Material Balances/Che calculations - 3 cr
CHM 261 - Organic Chem 1 - 3 cr
CHM 263 - Organic Chem Lab 1 - 1 cr
MA 261 - Multivariate Calculus - 4 cr
PHYS 241 - Electricity & Optics - 3cr
17 credits - 14 without phys, and my grades would be much higher in these courses.</p>
<p>I think I would find third semester easier... Calculus 3 is very easy, or atleast it was to me. So that means that you will have only two tough classes, which is E&M and orgo (I am a CS major so I have no idea how tough orgo is, but E&M shouldn't be that bad...).</p>
<p>Hm... doesn't calculus depend on the school though? From what I see right now, I have no idea what the hell we are doing (3d graphing.. weird??)</p>
<p>By the way it's electricity and optics.. not sure about magnetism. Either way, the material right now is like totally <strong><em>, the professor did like nothing but integrals and </em></strong> in lecture today.. and nobody had any idea ** was going on either...</p>
<p>Personally I think orgo is easy because I'm good at the courses where you study a lot and just rememorize ****.. (like AP bio), and I think material balances is very easy too.. I'm just worried about physics and math, honestly. I got a B in calc 1, and an A in calc 2, but calc 3 looks too hard.. and physics looks INSANE right now..</p>
<p>It might depend on the school... Calculus and physics are known to be weeder courses here at Illinois, but I thought they weren't that bad. (CS courses are so much harder...) </p>
<p>Isn't the physics your taking the second year physics?</p>
<p>yep. it just looks really hard, it's only the second week and we're doing stuff like gauss's law.. i had no idea what was happening in lecture today, the prof was integrating like everything..</p>
<p>If you think you can't handle physics 2 at current state, I would advise you to take the course at some CC during the summer. CC physics should be much easier than your current physics class at Purdue.</p>