<p>I noticed that you are overloading your courses. Is that particularly hard to do? Reading the course catalog, there isn't really much information about how acceptable that is other than the need to speak to an advisor.</p>
<p>I want to major in both Ethics, History, and Public Policy and Creative Writing. Four classes per semester is 288 units for a whole year. The core curriculum is 90 units, EHPP is 117, and Creative Writing is 99. That means I need to cut 18 units, and that is only if the Computing Skills Workshop and the Freshman Seminar are easy enough (if you have any information about how much time those two take it would be helpful) that I can just add them on as overload whenever I need to take them. </p>
<p>There are no courses I can use that count for both majors, but I can knock off one extra course that can count for the H&SS Gen Ed requirements. So that leaves me with one extra course, one computing workshop, and one freshman seminar to tack on to my schedule beyond 4 courses a semester. Do you think this is reasonable?</p>
<p>I only attended computing skills workshop when there were tests (i.e. it's really easy). Freshmen Seminar shouldn't be too bad... thought it's in a different college and I've never taken it. Though, I never heard anyone complaining about it.</p>
<p>Overloading your first semester Freshmen year is forbidden, I think - unless you beg and plead with your advisor and, by the grade of all that is good, he/she allows you to do it. </p>
<p>Overloading isn't that big of a deal. Of course, it's more work - but, at least for me, more work usually leads to better allocation of my time. Meaning that as the amount of my work rises so does the rate and efficiency at which I do it.</p>
<p>Yes, Walden is right. Computing Skills Workshop and Seminar, both are relatively easy courses. CSW mainly teaches you about ethics, microsoft excel and little bit of unix commands. If you attend seminar lecture regularly, you should be fine. Also, both are pass/fail courses.</p>
<p>5 courses? No wonder I was confused. It was just that on the examples of how to finish a major in the course catalog, the examples were all schedules that charted only 4 classes max. 5 classes makes more sense to me. Thanks.</p>
<p>DD is an applicant for Fall 2006 and has a question. Is there a separate charge for internet access in the dormitories or is it included under "fees"? Also, do you know when admissions letters are mailed? Thanks.</p>
<p>taxguy:
Dorm residents are randomly chosen, and thus mingling with kids from other schools is inevitable. Though, I must admit - many of the design/architecture students are in their studios the majority of the time so I don't see them as much. I have some friends in the art/drama schools; but they're usually busy with rehersals, practices and what not. </p>
<p>Antarius:
It depends on how hard the week is. Currently I have 3 problem sets due a week.
1) Economics Problem Set - takes about 30 to 45 minutes
2) Differential Eq. Problem Set - Around 2 - 3 hours
3) Concepts of Math PSet - 3 hoursish</p>
<p>It's all about how you organize your time. If you do your homework in advance and review your material then when tests come around you won't have to study as much. I can honestly say I've never sat down for more than 3 hours straight to do homework. That doesn't mean I haven't worked more than 3 hours in a day, but not straight.</p>
<p>I was wondering how I could learn about the capabilities of CMU for life after graduation -beyond contacting the adminstration. How does CMU help you find employment or get into grad school? Is there a student oriented website for this kind of info? My field of interest will most likely be computer science. Thanks!</p>
<p>sdavis: They send you email like every single DAY about job offers and interns. Just recently I got a surge of intern offers and your advisor/counselor sends them to you a lot. Your advisor is very helpful and can offer you a lot of options.
I don't remember the link but I think we were ranked #2 nationally for job opportunities and this shows in our career center placement reports as we have higher salaries and better job opps than schools ranked higher than us. </p>
<p>Besides email and advisors, there are many flyers/banners around campus and of course the popular Tartantrak. The system is very easy to use and lets you find jobs/interns easily.</p>
<p>I can speak mostly for Tepper but almost everybody gets MORE than one job offer junior/senior year. </p>
<p>There are also competitions throughout the year and just a look online can tell you what is happening at the moment.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon definitely does an amazing job hooking its students up with jobs and interns. You frequently see people walking around campus in suits interviewing for jobs. The good thing is that recruiters come to us instead of us going to them (at other universities). </p>
<p>For a comp sci student, I'm pretty sure you don't have to worry about searching for jobs/interns at all as you'll find a lot of recruiters banging down your door.</p>
<p>To AcceptedAlready
Thanks for your response. You mention CMU is ranked #2 in job placements. Very impressive. I was wondering where I could get this information? I would love to see other colleges -in case I don't get into CMU.</p>