<p>Not saying this is the only/best way to do things, but just what comes to mind right now.</p>
<p>All the advising people will tell you that your first two years are for exploring and taking a variety of classes, and then junior year you should start your concentration specific requirements. However, I think that if you know what you want to do and are confident you're going to stay with it, I say do at least one class in that subject a semester. That way you can make sure its what you want to do early on, and you won't necesarily have to take tons of physics classes your junior/senior year, because you have a decent amount of required classes to get through.</p>
<p>For math, you'll need to take up to differential equations. Assuming you have credit for Calc BC, that means you need to either do 215/216 (Calc III and DiffEQ) or 285/286 (corresponding honors classes). Eventually you'll need to take physics 451, which is mathematics for theoretical physics. You don't need to worry about it now, just know that you're not completely done with math after DiffEQ.</p>
<p>For languages, you have a little bit more freedom since you're starting anew, so you don't have to worry about forgetting anything. One thing that's not widely publicized, but is a good option is the summer language institute. You can do an 8 credit class in 6 weeks during the spring or summer term, and cover all of either the first or second year of Italian. You don't have other classes to distract you, you're immersed in the language so you learn it better, it's an excuse to stay on campus for the summer, and it's a good way to finish your language requirement if you keep putting it off.</p>
<p>Great Books is a necessary evil, I suppose. Honors requires two "literature and ideas" course. The first one is either Great Books I or Classic Civ, though most do Great Books. For the second one, the main choice is Great Books II, but there's a list of about 10 other "approved" courses every semester you can also look into.</p>
<p>If you haven't read about distribution requirements...I'd go do that, since it dictates a decent amount of your schedule early on. Basically you need a certain amount of credits in classes outside of your concentration in various field like natural sciences, social sciences, humanities. I think a music theory class would count as InterDisciplinary, and econ/polysci count as social science.</p>
<p>So you have these requirements, and not enough time to cram them all in right away, so you'll need to put some off. I think language is probably the easiest one for you to put off until later, especially since you're starting off fresh. You shouldn't entirely forget about distribution requirements, but just keep in mind classes towards concentration kinda go sequentially, whereas distibution classes can be taken anytime. You can probably also afford to put of one or two of the math classes until sophomore year.</p>