<p>eatsalot, can you only enroll in classes you already have in your bookbag or is that just an easier way to organize potential classes?</p>
<p>Hilary, you have to have the course in your bookbag in order to register for them. It doubles as a way to organize potential classes too though. You can have as many classes in your bookbag as you want. When it comes time to register, you just check the ones you want to sign up for and click Enroll.</p>
<p>Have you received your Blue Book yet? It’ll tell you all about the course registration process. Don’t stress too much about the logistics; it’ll go smoothly.</p>
<p>I’ve read through the blue book and was confused about one thing for registration. Once the registration window opens, is all you have to do is click on the classes you want to enroll in from your bookbag and click enroll? What happens if you’re in the third registration window and your entire schedule revolves around one class that ends up being full, would you potentially recommend setting up multiple schedules in your bookbag?</p>
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<p>Before your registration window opens, you click the checkbox next to the 4 classes you want to register for. The day of registration, you log on to ACES and at 12PM sharp you click the “Enroll in Classes” button at the bottom of your bookbag.</p>
<p>If you’re in the third registration window, you definitely want to go on to ACES the day before you register and make sure that all of your classes are still available. If one of them is already full, you probably want to go through and make adjustments or find another class. I think they recommend that freshman do not waitlist for any classes. Third registration window normally requires a lot of shuffling depending on what classes you’re looking into (since all of the upperclassmen have already registered). Also, if you want a Writing 20 class that has the potential to fill up even if you get click “Enroll” at 12:00:02 PM, I would recommend putting some alternatives in your bookbag that probably won’t fill up even within 5 minutes. You’ll be surprised how quickly some of these classes disappear. Even if one of your classes is full, ACES will register you for the other three, so no need to worry about that. </p>
<p>This site: [Schedulator</a> | Home](<a href=“http://www.dukeschedulator.com%5DSchedulator”>http://www.dukeschedulator.com) is incredibly helpful. I find it far easier to look at potential schedules here than on ACES, particularly if you’re interested in classes with more than one section or meeting time. It does the whole multiple schedule thing for you 
(You do need to use this to supplement ACES though, because it doesn’t tell you which classes are already full or how many spots are left.)</p>
<p>These are probably really stupid questions, but:</p>
<p>1) I’m trying to find a list of all the Writing 20 courses offered for the fall to get a sense of what kind of classes there are. When I went to this website [Thompson</a> Writing Program: Course Listing for Fall, 2010 - UWP - Duke University](<a href=“Thompson Writing Program: Course Listing for Fall, 2010 - UWP - Duke University”>Thompson Writing Program: Course Listing for Fall, 2010 - UWP - Duke University) it doesn’t give me actual course names, just Writing 20.09, 20.80, etc. </p>
<p>2) I’d also like to find a list of first-year seminars, but can’t find one for fall 2010. Actually I did at school but I can’t seem to find it again.</p>
<p>It’s high time I took advantage of this wealth of information:</p>
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<li><p>Looking at the course schedules from the year that just ended, it appears that the Writing 20 offerings change from semester to semester (i.e. topics that weren’t offered in the fall are offered in the spring). Is this the case?</p></li>
<li><p>None of the Fall 2010 topics whose synopses have been posted to ACES really interest me, so I’m considering taking Writing 20 during the spring when more interesting topics may be available. Is this a generally a good idea? I guess what I’m asking for are the pros and cons associated with taking Writing 20 during a given semester (I’m in Pratt, if that makes a difference; not sure if I will pledge or be a true Cameron Crazie and camp out before UNC at home).</p></li>
<li><p>At what point during the year do spring-semester course schedules come out?</p></li>
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<p>Actually, disregard my last post. Reading in the Blue Book, “Half of your class will enroll in Writing 20 in the Fall and the other half will enroll in the Spring,” makes it sound as if Duke decides before anyone registers when every first-year will take Writing 20. Is this the correct interpretation?</p>
<p>^^ I don’t think so, but at the same time, I don’t think there is any disadvantage to taking it in the spring. Just personal preference.</p>
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<p>Kind of. Duke assigns half of the class to have “priority” for Writing 20 in the Fall. Those who do NOT have priority can’t enroll in a Writing 20 until after all 3 registration windows have gone by. Those who do have priority are eligible to enroll in a Writing 20 class when their registration window opens. Last year, I had priority but chose to take it in the spring instead because none of the topics in the fall interested me.</p>
<p>OK nvm I answered my first question</p>
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<p>Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the listings for Fall 2010 yet. They’ll probably be up closer to the end of May. Don’t worry it’ll be up. :)</p>
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<p>1) Yeap, they sometimes change. This depends on the professor.</p>
<p>2) It doesn’t really matter. From what I’ve noticed, there is one advantage and one anecdotal disadvantage. The advantage is that if you take it in the spring, you can ask all your friends which professors are the best/easiest/whatever you’re looking for. The disadvantage I’ve noticed is that the professors/classes got HARDER second semester. This may just be from my group of friends, but I took it first semester and had a significantly lower work load then they did haha. If you’re pledging/tenting, I’d recommend taking W20 first semester. Seriously, it’s nice to get it out of the way. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>3) Spring courses usually become available in Novemberish.</p>
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<p>Not sure the part about W20 being harder in the Spring is necessarily true. Several of my friends had tough W20 classes during the Fall semester whereas some of the same classes are of comparable or lesser difficulty Spring semester. Then again, this is anecdotal evidence; however, I can safely say that W20 difficulty depends much more with what class/professor you choose rather than which semester you take. Ratemyprofessor.com and similar sites are great resources to use for students contemplating W20 in the fall.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten my blue book. =( (Got a international address.)
And based on pass record I may not get it until June. Any recommendations of sites i should check out before that so I don’t miss out too much?(i.e. list of classes, info of windows—or do these need to be accessed with my ID and password? )
It would be really helpful. Thanks in advance. =)</p>
<p>Here’s the online version of the Class of 2014 Blue Book depending on whether you’re Trinity or Pratt: [Duke</a> University | Student Affairs | New Student & Family Programs | Blue Book](<a href=“Duke Student Affairs”>Duke Student Affairs)
Hope this helps! Let me know if you need any other links for our Class of 2014</p>
<p>I have a chemistry question. Is chemistry 32L basically the equivalent of gen chem 2? But it says online that after taking Chem 31L (gen chem 1) you can go directly to organic chem (chem 151L)and bypass chem 32L…why would Duke let you do that</p>
<p>Chem 32 was designed as a course to cap the chemistry sequence. It’s the sort of course where topics that aren’t as important or fundamental and are thus neglected are revisited and examined in more detailed. Things like nuclear chemistry, electrochemistry, etc are such topics. I’m not sure exactly what topics the class goes over but that’s what I was told as a chem TA.</p>
<p>The suggested sequence is Chem 31L–>Chem 151L–>Chem 152L–>Chem 32L.</p>
<p>Is it OK to space out organic chem over 2 years? I.e. 151L spring of freshman year, and then 152L fall of sophomore year?</p>
<p>Yes, it’s OK but be sure that you can retain the information from 151 during the summer, otherwise, 152 would be rather difficult.</p>