<p>Right now, I am choosing among "Career Options for Biomedical Research" (Sidney Yip and Bruce Rosen), "Pangenomics of Common Human Diseases" (William Thilly), and "Read More About It: Medicine and Biology in this Week's News" (Vernon Ingram and Lisa Steiner). I am really into biology, specifically medicine and neurology. If anyone has done these programs or know more about them, can you please give me some suggestions. The viewbook didn't give me enough details, so I am still very much undecided.</p>
<p>Steiner is a fairly boring lecturer, although maybe she's different in a small group setting.</p>
<p>Maybe google the people giving the seminars to see what they've worked on in the past and which ones sound like people you'd be really interested to get to know based on that. That's what I did when I had it down to three that all sounded really cool.</p>
<p>Oh, or if applicable, use <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratemyprofessors.com</a> to see what other people thought of them and pick who you want to be your advisor.</p>
<p>sort of off topic, but does it matter that I submitted the advising application 6 hours late?</p>
<p>I got my Freshman Advising Seminar today in the Freshmen Advising Folder...that is my last choice actually...is there any chance I can drop the seminar? Also, is the seminar one or two semesters? If it is two semesters, is the second semester P/F/NR too?</p>
<p>I'm sort of confused...</p>
<p>When was the application due? I never remember signing up for an advising seminar, I just remember choosing "non-residence-based advising seminar" earlier. Is it too late to sign up for one?</p>
<p>If I go to the "Freshman Advising Seminar Assignments" section, it tells me that I will be "advised by a tradisional advisor". What does this mean?</p>
<p>I got the seminar about Stress and Facture, taught by some nuclear engineering prof. Anybody else in that one?</p>
<p>Nope, I got "Meteorite Kills Dog" by Timothy Grove.</p>
<p>zking, it means you didn't sign up for a specific seminar, so they didn't put you in one. The application involved choosing your top n seminars, or so, much like the HASS-D lottery. Traditional advising is not-a-seminar, which is what it appears you've currently got.</p>
<p>You could try contacting the ARC.</p>
<p>so, may i drop my seminar?</p>
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If you have been assigned to a Freshman Advising Seminar, you cannot drop it. If you have an issue with taking your seminar and want to switch or drop it, you must meet first with Dean Donna Friedman in the Academic Resource Center, 7-104.
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<p>Why would you put down a seminar choice that you didn't want to take anyway?</p>
<p>no, i might audition for wind ensemble (six-unit credit too); so, if i make it, i have to choose between wind ensemble and my freshman seminar due to the 54-unit limit for the first semester; may i do so?</p>
<p>I didn't know freshman seminar made you ineligible for music stuff..uh oh.</p>
<p>there was a warning, which was printed on the ARC site, on the same page as the seminars.</p>
<p>It's basically just the credit limit. It's not that you're ineligible outright, so much as that you have a certain amount of space and therefore only so many things you can do within that space.</p>
<p>If you must do both a seminar and extracurricular music activities, you could cut credit somewhere else, for instance.. you could take 3 classes. (Not that I recommend it, just saying..)</p>
<p>^ or do music w/o the credit</p>
<p>If you're serious about dropping the seminar, you should contact the ARC as soon as possible, so they can get you into traditional advising before you arrive on campus.</p>
<p>Yeah, like danielsjang says, you can take music performance classes without receiving credit for them.</p>