<p>Hey all.</p>
<p>I am going to be joining a university this fall. I am an international. My major is going to be Mechanical engg.</p>
<p>I have credits from AP and IB and am wondering if I should take easy classes, adapt to the new atmosphere or take credits and save time and money.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>bumppppity bump</p>
<p>Is money a big issue? Also, would you feel completely comfortable jumping right into advanced courses?</p>
<p>You tell me BillyMc, like isn’t there a reason why they are offering credits in the first place right?</p>
<p>And no, money isn’t THAT big of an issue but the way I see it, money saved is money earned…</p>
<p>i used enpugh credits so that i could graduate 1 semester early to get an extra job or ionternship befpore grad school plus ill save money</p>
<p>i am still taking plenty of easy classes</p>
<p>Calc 2 is pretty easy, it’s just memorization. It’s not like, say, Upper-Level Philosophy courses that require you to critically think and apply concepts.</p>
<p>^ It’s not rote memorization if you actually want to figure out how and why it works the way it does. Most of math is like that. Philosophy follows the same methods as mathematics, so I’m not sure why you’re trying to put them against each other since they kind of grew from the same realm of studies. Not only that, but calculus 2 is a freshman course, which means it’s not an upper-level class.</p>
<p>Anyway, you don’t need to waste time and ‘adapt’ to anything. Just take credits, you’re a mechanical engineering major, you’ll do yourself a favor by not taking any fluff classes when you don’t need it.</p>
<p>Never take easy classes. Instead focus on taking the ones that seem interesting. Its difficult to work like a dog for 16 weeks in a class that fails to interest you. Trust me, you will get good grades if you love hard classes because you will put more time into doing the work.</p>
<p>Calc II is not easy at all… I don’t know about you, but I had difficulty understanding series a great deal, conceptually understanding that part was pretty difficult. I found Calc III to be the very worst for the calculus sequences. Diff Eq. was surprisingly not as bad…</p>
<p>As a MechE, you are never going to have any easy classes within the engineering curriculum. Humanities and social science courses I found were the only real GPA boosters, but due to the intensity of engineering, you will take very little of these courses (at least less so than other majors).</p>