<p>First semester's over. Taking questions.</p>
<p>Same here...I think psquared would be willing to field questions as well...</p>
<p>I know who you are, what's psquared's real name?</p>
<p>I'd be willing to answer too</p>
<p>What classes did you guys take this semester? HOw hard were they?</p>
<p>Do all engineering majors take the same classes freshman year?</p>
<p>Most engineers will take frosh year:
-writing seminar
-chemistry or physics
-calculus 1 or 2
-intro to engineering or computer science</p>
<p>I had a lot of AP credit and took:
-writing seminar (mysteries)
-calc 2
-intro to engineering (nanotechnology)
-computer science 100 (java + honors)</p>
<p>I took:
-writing seminar (history one)
-nanotechnology (intro eng)
-math 192 (multi var)
-chem 211 (chemistry for engineers)
Credits: 17</p>
<p>I felt like this was the perfect amount, I think i could have handled 5 classes, but I enjoyed having thursday night, friday night and all saturday free. If i took another course, i would proabbly have had to either work on saturday or work on thursday nights.</p>
<p>You were in my nano class? What's your name?</p>
<p>i'll pm you now</p>
<p>is there any way i can take both chemistry and physics? i'll definitely have to take chem since i haven't taken AP in high school and i might not get credit for physics</p>
<p>You can take both chemistry and physics in the same semester. Since they are both lab courses that might be a lot of work, but since I haven't done both chemistry and physics in the same semester I wouldn't know. So, yes, you can take them both in the same semester, but for your first semester I would recommend spacing them out.</p>
<p>Wow, no courses outside of Engineering except the writing seminar? Is thereroom to take advantage of the liberal arts resources at Arts & Sciences after Sem. 1? I've heard Cornell engineers are busy people o.o</p>
<p>What are the courses like in general? The website calls it an optimal balance 'tween fundamental theory and practical...is it very concepts heavy? Can you tell at this point? What is an intro to engineering class, anyway? </p>
<p>Thanks, apologies for the pelting of questions.</p>
<p>how many hours of work do you generally have a day (a range would be fine)</p>
<p>zoogies, you are REQUIRED as an engineer to take 6 liberal arts courses in addition to your two freshmen writing seminars. You can take more liberal arts courses if you like.</p>
<p>The courses are a good balance. It depends on the professor and the course.</p>
<p>An intro to engineering class is a course designed to tour the concepts encountered in the upper level engineering courses. The intros usually correspond to a major or have some sort of specific major twist on them. Even though I'm CS, I took Nanotechnology, which was geared towards ECE and Materials Science. That course just reminded me, "wow, don't become an ECE or Mat Sci major." They give you some guidance and teach you some basics along the way. For me, they weren't exactly basics because it was out of my field, but I did fine anyway and learned a lot.</p>
<p>Some days (even weeks) I had no work at all. A typical week I would put in maybe 10 hours of work. I also took different courses than most people and ended up having a lot of free time (strangely). I think it's cause I placed out of the courses that gave people a lot of work: Chem, Physics...</p>
<p>is it a good idea to use that AP credit to go to more advance classes? wouldn't it be harder and you would have to work more? What precisely are the benefits of jumping to the more advanced classes?</p>
<p>hmmm...what are the chances of this happenin...u do so many credits/ yr that u actually finish a 4yr course in 3yrs+if i do VRY well in AP's, i finish it in 2yrs.
i would apprecitate it ifu could me an honest opinion on it</p>
<p>You can accelerate your college experience very significantly with AP credit. I had 47 credits, and I'm double majoring + getting an MEng in 8 semesters without a ridiculous courseload. Take as much AP credit as you can - the core classes that APs get you out of are (IMO) graded harder than other classes simply for the sake of difficulty. I don't think the workload is too bad - I took 5 real courses, a 1 credit project course and was on a project team and didn't find the workload to be too bad at all, but it really depends on what classes you take (no chem/physics or other lab courses here).</p>
<p>I'd say, on most days, I'd either do no work or I'd do 3-4 hours, with probably a 60/40 split between no work/3-4 hours and a few all nighters for big papers/projects.</p>
<p>I took a liberal arts class my first semester. Pick a liberal arts carefully - find one that interests you but that you'll be able to get an A in. I took Drugs and Society (sociology), which was an interesting class with nice grading.</p>
<p>Is your name Matt?</p>