<p>would anyone like to recommend a 53 professor? i basically took this class in HS but didn't get as great an understand of it (and 54) as I had hoped so I'm going to take it at Cal also. (I got a 5 on AP Calc BC anyway so it's fine)</p>
<p>Furthermore -- given the nature of "Berkeley time" would it be possible to schedule a class from 2 - 330 and then from 330 - 5 on the same day back-to-back without being late to that second class? :D</p>
<p>What kind of R/C should I take? I'm interested in literature .. I like 19th century Russian literature as well as notable fiction from 1700s onward. At the same time I don't want to have an extremely difficult time..</p>
<p>I think Hutchings would be a great choice for 53. My friends who've had him all say he's an effective lecturer with loads of corny math jokes. I've looked at all of his exams and they're all fairly easy in spite of the sometimes low averages, which I think are a result of people studying the wrong stuff. You can check them out on his course websites from 2007 and 2003. </p>
<p>The Berkeley time thing--yes, I and many other people like to schedule classes back-to-back so that we spend less time on campus. It shouldn't take you more than 5-ish minutes to walk between classes.</p>
<p>R/C: Slavic R5 series, maybe? I think I saw in another thread that you were premed. Keep in mind that most med schools require a year of R/C.</p>
<p>that's a heavy, yet (i'd venture to say) normal beginning engineering schedule for incoming freshies. most eecs i know did something similar to that, with differing classes in math and physics levels (due to AP's). hutchings is probably your best bet for 53, though i don't know who else is teaching it in the fall. </p>
<p>as for the back-to-back scheduling, YES! it's something i like to do - string hours of classes together so that i can go to campus and leave campus once a day, rather than multiple times, which can be a hassle. berkeley time is sufficient for travel between classes, as long as it's not something crazy across campus like tolman to kroeber</p>
<p>Yea.. looks like a rather standard first-year EECS schedule. Most usually do one Math, one Science (Chem/Physics/EE), one CS, and a breadth, each varying depending on the individual's level.</p>
<p>Whether to skip 61B or not is your decision. A 5 in AP CS AB does not give much information - you could have scored a 96%, in which case you must be very comfortable with using data structures and should skip 61B; or you could have scored around 80% (like what I estimate my raw score to be), in which case you should take 61B. 61B is actually much more in-depth than my high school's AP CS class, and I learned a lot in it. Take a look at the CS47B excercises at the last page of this document to determine whether you're ready to skip 61B:</p>
<p>Thanks Orochi.. if you had asked me to look at those exercises just over one year ago I probably would have had no problem with them. But it's been over a year since I've really messed with data structures and I'm quite rusty. I guess I'll take 61B..? (do I still get AP CS AB units even if I opt to take 61B?)</p>