<p>I’m going to orientation session 7…meaning the last one. I’ve been making schedules but it’s been sooo frustrating since most of the classes are already closed! I want to pick my schedule for M, W, F classes so I can have Tuesday and Thursday off. </p>
<p>With that said, to those fellow freshman that already went to orientation, what do your schedules sort of look like? Do you have any day without a class or is your week booked? Also, what do you guys think about the Freshman Topic Seminar…is it a waist of time? I feel like it’s taking up space and it’s only worth 1 credit!!! And finally, is anyone taking more difficult classes such as a natural science your first semester?</p>
<p>Not to worry. BC blocks out spots in Frosh classes for every Orientation. Thus, slots will open on YOUR registration day. Freshmen seminars are great if you like the topic. However, if you are a science major with lab classes, you might find the extra hour too much.</p>
<p>im going to that orientation too, i havent seen alot of classes closed when i go on the course schedule thing on agora. i also remember reading somewhere that they make it fair for people going to session 7 because they keep spots open or something to that effect.</p>
<p>I would not recommend scheduling all your classes for M,W, & F. This will make your work load excessive during those days. It is best to to have 3 and 2 classes. Somme classes are scheduled for evening hours. That may appeal to you. Good Luck.</p>
<p>I agree strongly with Ben, having a balanced schedule is definitely better at first. If all your classes were on 2 days, you would have to spend all of your off days doing homework. You would probably have to do work for most of the day. It seem nice to have 2 or 3 days with no class, but you will have to schedule your time carefully. For freshmen year, it is good to have balance, you can try some different schedules once you are more adjusted. I would only recommend scheduling full days off if you have a good reason, like you have a job or internship. Other than that, there really isn’t any reason to. </p>
<p>I didn’t take a topic seminar, but it seems that most people like them for the most part. Most of them don’t really involve any work, it is more just a discussion and you might have some light reading. It is graded pass/fail so there aren’t a lot of assignments. They only last until November so you’ll be done by finals. It seems like a good way to meet other freshmen.</p>
<p>No worries, they proportion out the slots in each class, so someone in session 7 is no worse off than someone in session 1.</p>
<p>I went to session 4. I have classes MWF at 9, 10, and 1. T TH I have one class at 10:30. I would definitely not want to pack everything into MWF, especially because if there’s a weekend trip or a chance to go somewhere or go home, I’d want to get out relatively early on a Friday. I’m taking my core classes in Theology, Philosophy, and Math, and the first course requirement for my major (English–I placed out of both freshman English core requirements with APs or I would have taken those) this semester, as well as one class as part of the Cornerstone program.</p>
<p>Some classes only run on MWF too, so a lot would depend on when your desired classes are held. I would definitely recommend choosing the courses you want, and then trying to get the best days/times possible, instead of trying to find courses that fit specific time frames (it does get kind of overwhelming at registration time, so it helped me stay more organized). What worked best for me was to be very sure of what my core and major (if you’ve decided on one yet) requirements are, and what I have gotten out of because of APs. I had a first and second choice for all 5 slots, so I got into most of my first or second choices.</p>
<p>I ended up enrolling in that “Courage to Know” course; I wasn’t planning on it, but I was having trouble getting into one last class, but I’m sure it’ll be fine…I have only heard good things about it, and it counts as 3 credits. A friend of mine that I met at orientation is taking one of those freshman topic seminars (so she has a total of 16 credits this semester). We asked around a bit, and everyone said that they’re really not much extra work at all. They said that the classes meet once a week, but the main purpose is to get the freshmen acquainted with their advisers and to have discussions, so it doesn’t require any amount of extensive work (hence why it’s only 1 credit).</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! This has helped me a lot.
I’m still deciding on my first and second choices for classes but I know I have to get on that asap. I think that it makes sense to distribute my classes over the week… I’m going to try to do that.
I can’t wait for orientation! :)</p>
<p>^CTK is a normal class worth three credits, so you will have to do some work for it. It is treated as a normal class. It depends in the professor, but my I felt like I had less work in that class than in my other classes first semester. You will have to do some reading, and write papers, and some projects, but most of the stuff we did was more reflection and the books we read were really interesting. Out of the 5 classes I took first semester, this was the least amount of work I had in each one.</p>
i’m more calm about the schedule thing now.</p>