<p>Need some comments on this matter.</p>
<p>Is it safe to follow the "model" in the back of the College of Engineering booklet? I did some research and planning into the courses I should sign up for in Phase I [mid-July for me cause I can't go to Calso due to work :/], it seems the outline "model" seem to work well.</p>
<p>Am I correct? Or the "model" need some tweaking?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>In EECS, you don't really have a choice of what classes to take.</p>
<p>The classes are already chosen for you until you get into upperdivision.</p>
<p>You have to go through the same gauntlet of Math 1A, 1B, 53, 54; Physics 7A, 7B; EE 20, 40; as the rest of us. :)</p>
<p>Thank you DarkPyr0. Appreciate your help a lot :D</p>
<p>Yes. And then once you get into upper-div, you can be a GPA whore and try to look for the "easiest" professors...for example, certain EE105 profs allot 45% A's. You can take any combination of upper-div courses you want as long they total 20 units.</p>
<p>For lower division courses, follow the model, but skip ANY courses you place out of via APs (Physics 7A, Math 1A and 1B, CS 61B are the easy ones). Once you get to upper div, it's a smorgasboard, but pick wisely, because you only have 4 years to take everything you want.</p>
<p>For first semester in particular, I'd recommend: CS61A, EE20N, Physics 7A/B (depending if you placed out of 7A), and either Math 1A/B/53/54 (depending on what you placed out of) or a humanities (you could swap a humanities in for the physics instead of the math if you wanted). Then pick up a seminar or a decal or something else that seems fun. This should put you at 18 units or so. If you're comfortable, then that's great, keep the 18 units. It will, however, give you the flexibility to drop a class and go to 14 units if it's too much for your first semester.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, it helps a lot cause I couldn't go to CalSO.</p>
<p>Hopefully I didn't miss out a lot by not being there.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention the CS 61 series D: </p>
<p>But I wouldn't reccommend EE20N for first semester, I took it my second semester and it was still difficult. The class is also filled with lots of juniors too.</p>
<p>Hmmm, DarkPyr0 may be right. They say Math 54 helps with EE20N, so you may want to wait until you take Math 54. I didn't find it too bad first semester, but I didn't really understand the material until I took 120. If I had taken it later it might have sunk in better the first time around.</p>
<p>eudean, nobody understands what's going on in that class :P</p>
<p>I took it along with Math 54. I found that it helped me in Math 54 rather than the other way around.</p>
<p>It feels like math 54 just touches on it and goes on a different tangent.</p>
<p>The only related concepts are eigenvectors and eigenvalues and for a brief time, differential equations.</p>
<p>Heh, yeah, EE20N is like the biggest mash of stuff ever. I think part of my problem was that Varaiya was teaching that semester, and well everything he says just goes over everyone's head. It was amazing how clear everything was after a semester with Gastpar in 120. It was also amazing (well, not so much) how many people thought 120 was hell the semester after I took it...guess who was teaching? That's right, Varaiya! I recall their GSI saying once (he was in the Cory lounge while students were begging for help) that he wouldn't understand what Varaiya was teaching in 120 if he hadn't already taken 123.</p>
<p>The new EE20N is different now. At the end of spring, they were looking for someone to write a new lab manual.</p>
<p>There aren't any state machines, most of it isj ust math now.</p>
<p>Yeah I heard about the lack of state machines. I looked at some of the stuff in the most recent teaching (since two roommates were in it) and it did look different, but it looked like a lot of differential equations stuff (I recall phase portraits, among other things).</p>
<p>Whatever, anyway, EE20N is a fine choice for a class to take, despite sucking, because you'll have to take it eventually no matter what.</p>
<p>OOOKKKK...<em>avoid Varaiya</em>...</p>
<p>Toaster, you probably wont' need to worry about Varaiya, Babak Ayazifar is pretty much taking over the class now. It's becoming "his" class, the same way CS61A is Harvey's class.</p>
<p>Varaiya is retiring, so nobody has to worry about him.</p>