<p>I am currently in the process of planning my fall semester of classes and was wondering if students are able to successfully handle a schedule where one class ends and another class begins at the same time (for example, I am looking at having a writing class from 12pm to 1 pm and a chemistry laboratory from 1 pm to 5pm on the same day). Is this advisable and/or manageable? I would appreciate some feedback from current students. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, definitely do that.</p>
<p>There’s an unwritten rule at wustl where classes don’t start until 7 minutes after it’s official time. The 7 minute rule is why you’re able to do exactly what you want to do.</p>
<p>I knew a ton of people who didn’t know about this their first semester, so they put an hour between each class, and hated it.</p>
<p>Another note… the 7 minute rule tends to be invoked with nearly all washu activities- not just classes. So don’t be surprised when most meetings tend to start “late.”<br>
Personally, it takes me a while to get adjusted when I come back home, because I fervently believe everything should follow this.</p>
<p>How does one go about finding the course listings for fall 2010? i assume it is available through WebSTAC, but for some reason I am having trouble finding it</p>
<p>the course listings are here: <a href=“http://courses.wustl.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://courses.wustl.edu</a></p>
<p>I agree that having at least some of your classes back-to-back is a good idea - it’d be a really long day if you had an hour or more between every class.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, but that raised one more question. If the numbers on the site are right, I have to be one of the first 20 people to register for general physics I 117A, or the class will be closed out. that doesn’t seem quite right at this point in the summer; are more sections typically opened up or are those numbers just wrong?</p>
<p>More sections or more space is always opened up for the first year lab and math courses.</p>
<p>NWrnnr- they’ve purposefully done that so that the class isn’t full of upperclassmen. When it’s time for freshmen to register, they’ll open up room (or, alternatively, they may keep it so that you have to be on the waitlist, and they’ll add people 1 by 1, to ensure that freshmen/majors can get in)</p>
<p>They do method 2 for 197, I don’t know which of the 2 they’ll do for 117. But in other words, don’t stress if you have to be on the waitlist. My year I was 26 on the waitlist, and got in (I think up to 60 on the waitlist got in for my section of 197).</p>
<p>Also, I’d suggest 197 over 117. 197 has more homework, but you learn much, much more (and the prof is far better). Also, if you decide you don’t like it, you can always take 118… but it doesn’t work the other way. You can’t take 198 unless you’ve taken 197.</p>
<p>^this. If you can get into 197, it’s worth the extra work. Freshmen who want a spot in 117 are pretty much guaranteed to get in (they’ll move you off the waitlist or whatever) but I don’t think everyone gets into 197. they move physics majors off the waitlist first, then bring in as many more people from the waitlist as they can… All that to say don’t worry about 117 filling up, but if you can get signed up for 197 as soon as registration opens, I’d do that! And as Johnson181 said you can always switch from 197 into 117/118.</p>