Duke Senior taking questions

<p>hookem168 - the article, The Decline and Revival of Liberal Learning at Duke: The Focus and Gerst Programs is great! I wish it had been available when my D made her decision to attend Duke!</p>

<p>Is engineering at DUke tough? And by that i mean, do the engineering students study all the time and have terrible schedules.</p>

<p>Compared to non-premed Trinity students, Pratt students are in class/labs twice the amount of time. It’s pretty brutal.</p>

<p>^ Ahhh…and then 4 years of med school and 5 or 6 years of residency…sucks for you guys! :D</p>

<p>well, at least there are always jobs for engineers/doctors. anywhos, this thread is taking away from my watching Requiem for a dream for the 3rd ish time…ooh sweet trainspotting finally downloaded. toodles.</p>

<p>^ Dude, that movie messed me up. For real.</p>

<p>hopefully you didnt do drugs AFTER… watching it heh.</p>

<p>It’s an amazing movie. I’ve been on a movie binge for the past weeks, still got more to watch.</p>

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<p>Just a quick question.</p>

<p>Bryan Center (Psy 11 lecture) to Art Building (W20) in 20 minutes. Possible?</p>

<p>it’s possible, but you may be cutting it close.</p>

<p>Here’s a good website which maps out the campus:
[Campus</a> Destinations - Duke University](<a href=“http://www.campusdestinations.com/duke]Campus”>http://www.campusdestinations.com/duke)</p>

<p>is it possible to go from the biological sciences building to the sociology/psychology building in 20 minutes? if not, i’m so screwed</p>

<p>Yes, Biosci and Soc/Psych are both on west campus, it’s probably a 10 minute walk at leisure pace. You could either walk up to the main quad from behind the chapel, turn left and walk to soc/psych, or you could walk up science dr. and cut through the engineering quad to get there.</p>

<p>ok, reading that previous message, i just check the locations for some of my classes and from ECON51D to MATH32 lectures on three days of the week, i have to go from Bryan Center to Carr Building, in 20 minutes. That’s West to East right? Will that be too tight and will I need to find an alternative class schedule? There is a Math 32 class that’s an hour later, which would be a better option i think, but i’ve already enrolled and all Math 32 classes are full now. Any ideas?</p>

<p>I think you’ll be fine. I had a similar situation to this my freshman year and it was a little bit tight, but worked out fine.</p>

<p>You will all be fine, in my opinion. I mean, it would suck if you had those 20 minute breaks everyday, but 2-3 days a week of hustling between classes is something you’ll get used to. Just walk fast, waste no time getting on the first bus you see, and walk fast to your next destination. I’ve done Gross Chem (believe me…it’s far…they don’t really use it at all for class anymore) to Carr in 20, Biosci to Carr in 20, Soch/Psych to Carr in 20. In fact, sometimes I’d walk from Soch/Psych to my car in the back of the Blue Zone, drive to East, park a block off East Campus, and still make it (keep in mind this professor was generally about 10 minutes late…but anyone who’s spent some time walking to the Blue Zone knows this is a hike and probably stupid, but hey, I did it anyway)</p>

<p>how difficult is it to switch majors rom the school of the arts to the prat school of engineering; im am curently an undeclared freshman in the trinity school, but i am considerin to major in biomedical engineer; wat shuld i do??</p>

<p>not difficult at all, it’s as simple as filling out some paper work. Pratt will welcome you with open arms seeing as how the flow of transferees is usually in the reverse direction. </p>

<p>If you are seriously about switching to engineering though, I would suggest that you sign up for the engineering requirements such as EGR53 and math and such so that you don’t fall behind. It’s usually recommended that you hold off the transfer until the second semester.</p>

<p>From what I’ve heard you generally have to have take SOME math/science and IDEALLY EGR53 at Duke, and done well. It’s a rigorous program, and I think Pratt wants to see that you’re dedicated to working hard/finishing the program, as opposed to looking for an easy route to employment.</p>

<p>My advice would be to email the department and see what they suggest. They might urge you to take EGR53, or might suggest just Math 103/Gen Chem or something. But I don’t think you can blindly switch into Pratt with no proven track record.</p>

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<p>[Duke</a> University | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences : Academic requirements](<a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=transfer-to-from-pratt-school-of-engineering]Duke”>http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=transfer-to-from-pratt-school-of-engineering)</p>

<p>Actually a lot of Pratt kids transfer to Trinity. I’ve heard around 1 out of 3 Pratt kids eventually do.</p>

<p>Yep, more kids transfer from Pratt to Trinity. Transferring from Trinity to Pratt is more difficult, though, and happens much less often.</p>