<p>I looked up classes, but most of the scheduling is inconvienient. Would it be stupid to take calc at 8 in the morning, then animal bio at 9ish and organic chem at 10ish? Then take a 7:30 class till 9:30 in one day? I need all these classes and there's basically no other classes to take for my major because they're not offered now, full, or require prereqs. Plus, I'm not a morning person, so I'm thinking I might sacrifice calc for the spring.</p>
<p>2-3 hour blocks of classes isn’t that bad, but honestly…if you’re not a morning person, those 7:30 and 8am classes are going to be awful. My first semester, I thought 8:40 was fine because high school started at 8am - and I could not have been more wrong! Early classes in college feel a million times earlier than they do in HS, and I’d seriously take that into consideration if you don’t like waking up early in the morning.</p>
<p>Thanks countryangel926. Now I’m thinking animal bio at 9, then ochem at 10. They are back to back. the 7:30-9:30 class is a night class. And I was also going to include a 2:00 to 4:30 class so I have enough credits to be full time. 2 of these classes will be once a week courses.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry about misunderstanding the 7:30-9:30! But yeah…9am classes aren’t as bad but now I can’t do anything earlier than 10 haha.</p>
<p>That doesn’t seem like a bad sequence. Do you already have AP credits?</p>
<p>Um, no. I took some college credits in high school, but that was two years ago. I’m a transfer. I’m now taking orgo lecture (lab is full), animal bio lecture/lab, exotic animal propagation & husbandry, animal welfare, & sociology. So I prefer to just take calc next semester so I don’t have to wake up that early!</p>
<p>8 am classes are awful. I had an 8 am language class every day during the spring semester. Going up the slope and inches of snow did not help my case! At least I enjoyed my class, but I can imagine calculus at 8 am being even more painful</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m so glad I didn’t choose it. Plus, I’m not used to walking up hills or snow. The 9 am class is even a pain in the neck. I like late classes, but most are offered in the mornings.</p>
<p>early classes are just personal preference. I hate waking up early, but I like finishing classes as early as possible, so I tend to take them (but madirocks is SOOOO right about 8AM language classes. x________x). My wednesdays actually start at 9:05 and end at 5PM this coming semester (with no breaks whatsoever), so you should be fine with those small blocks of 2-3hrs. I prefer getting them all done in sequence because I tend to not get anything productive done during those unavoidable 1.5hr breaks that sometimes have to be included in my schedule. Also, it makes you more flexible for work hours (should you choose to have a job)…as in you won’t have to go to work and leave early to go back to class if you just get them all done in the morning. On a side note, exotic avian is a good class–doesn’t require a ton of work or studying, the professors are VERY passionate about their work/birds, and you’ll learn a fairly good bit, but it’s not necessary to attend every class because you’ll be given a packet of notes. It’s definitely one of those classes that you don’t have to worry about (as in having a really full monday schedule is doable since you’ll only have two assignments and two prelims for the entire course and therefore won’t have to buckle down and do homework or cram for the class on Sundays). Also, joining the Cornell Raptor Program will help with Dr. Parks’ lectures (hint hint ;)).</p>
<p>Cornell Rapture Program? I’ll take a look. Does it include community service, because I need it to keep my Tradition Fellow. Plus, I rather get community service working with animals. Do you know how hard Animal Biology is? Also, I changed my schedule once again. I accidently signed up for sociology in the Arts and Sciences, so I removed myself because it won’t count as a human diversity credit. Instead, I took a 4 credit archaeology class. I needed another humanities or social science. It’s like the only class that fits my schedule, plus looks interesting. I think I chose good classes, beside orgo :/</p>
<p>meh, screw orgo. 
I did very very very terribly in it despite spending so much time studying for it. The Cornell Raptor Program (CRP) let’s you work directly with raptors and you can put as much effort into it as you want. There are Saturday “work days” where you go to the raptor barns and take care of the birds (feeding, cleaning aviaries, beak trims/rehab cases/feather repair etc. as needed), but you can also do daily feeding, where you can come everyday to feed the birds and eventually do hand feeding. There are also education programs around Ithaca where birds are shown to the general public (there are a couple of training sessions needed first, though). It’s all very hands on and is great for animal experience and for the tradition fellowship hours.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken Animal Biology. Is that the basic 1000 (I think) level ansci class? I’ve heard it’s pretty easy, although it requires a little bit of studying. I’ll be taking Animal Physiology and its lab this semester. If you’re interested in taking those, the lecture is 3cr and the lab is 4, and I’ve heard that both require a lot of work, but they’re sooo worth it and the professors are awesome</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I thought all animal science majors require animal biology? I got a attachment from my advisor. It states:
For all students, the requirements of the major consist of:
- Foundation courses in Animal Science, normally taken in the first two years
ANSC 1100: Domestic Animal Biology
ANSC 1105: Contemporary Perspectives on Careers in Animal Science
ANSC 2120: Animal Nutrition
ANSC 2210: Principles of Animal Genetics
ANSC 2400: Animal Reproduction and Development - 6 credits (minimum) of Animal Biology Systems courses
- 6 credits (minimum) of Advanced Animal Biology courses </p>
<p>Oh, and I have Ganem for orgo. Do you know if he’s good or bad? I’m going to be ****ed if my prevet classes aren’t A’s. I thought I would take the challenge to see how I would do.</p>
<p>I’m a bio major 
Ganem isn’t that great, but he’s definitely a million times better than the second semester teacher (Dichtel, but that’s assuming he teaches it again in the spring). Neither is very good at explaining things and both expect you to rely heavily on the Loudon orgo textbook (which I absolutely hated because it was even worse at explaining things) but Ganem’s handwriting is REALLY bad, and he goes really fast. Dichtel writes more neatly, but he was way behind his proposed schedule by the end of the semester (although that doesn’t mean he was more thorough/a good teacher.) Ganem is better because although his tests are ridiculously hard, he doesn’t like to toy with you like Dichtel does. Dichtel thinks that a prelim mean of 45% with a standard deviation of 20ish (if I remember correctly) is perfectly acceptable (he actually congratulated himself during class after that prelim). They’re both really stingy when it comes to partial credit, too (which is what killed me in the courses. I could write my entire reactions and they could see every step in my thought processes, but I’d miss a tiny little thing and get absolutely no credit) and the test questions are generally given in parts, so you’re really f’d if you miss the first part of the question (because they don’t grade you based on the accuracy of your other answers based on your first…you’re just completely on your own for each answer). A tip about those lost points, though: ARGUE FOR CREDIT. I just took the grades I got in Ganem’s class without a word, but decided to try my luck at arguing in Dichtel’s and ended up with several points added to each of my tests.</p>
<p>Like I insinuated, orgo ruined my life and I hope and pray that vet schools can look beyond those nasty blemishes. D’;</p>
<p>Wait…so how many classes per day are manageable, regardless of start time?</p>
<p>I actually really liked Dicthel. If you can look past his exams, he is a very nice person. He is good at communicating with students, and he always encourages students rather than making them feel like crap.<br>
lavender19 just a piece of advice. Everyone at Cornell was an A student at some point in his/her life. Not saying that you are incapable of getting all A’s, but just be prepared to get grades that you have never gotten in your life. With hard work and a bit of luck, getting an A is certainly possible. If a class can have an average of 45% on an exam, it either means that everyone is extremely dumb, or that there were issues with the content of the exam.</p>
<p>risubu there is no set guide for how many classes are manageable. I have seen people take close to the minimum number of credits required, and I have also seen people take 30 credits. It all depends on the individual, but in my opinion, taking a bunch of classes during the first semester at Cornell is not a good idea.</p>
<p>Few things will change my opinion of Dichtel. Anyway, I have to agree with madirocks as far as manageable courses are concerned. Take twelve or twenty-five. It just depends on what you’re comfortable with. As for the number of classes you are physically taking in one day, it’s again, your choice. If you can’t get anything better than a 9-5 no-break schedule (like I’ll have this fall D;), then good luck to ya. As of now, the most I’ve had in one day is 4 (including a 3 hour lab) consecutive classes. I actually liked it that way because I got it all done in one shot and could devote the rest of my time to studying or working or whatever. If you’re one of those people who can definitely get work done in an hour and a half break between classes, then you could probably get away with spacing out your schedule. Based on personal preference, I like to have as few classes as possible on Tuesdays and Thursdays because most of my classes have night prelims on those nights (more time for studying during the day/lower likelihood of having a project/homework due that day)</p>
<p>^ Thank you both for your advice. That is scary how a 45% can be the class average. I am even more concerned about the fact that no credit will be accepted if there’s a tiny error in an orgo problem. For example, if I made a tiny mistake in my general chem class usually only one or two points will get deducted from a 10-15 point problem. So is maintaining four classes, a part time job, and volunteering in the cornell raptor program too much? I don’t have classes on Tuesdays or Thursdays, so I probably have to work. Maybe work late Saturday afternoons/nights.</p>
<p>I’d say that’s pretty manageable. Just remember that you’re a student first, so don’t overload on the hours at your job. I read somewhere that most Cornell students who have jobs work between 6 and 10 hours per week</p>
<p>Blastoise- I am curious as to why you really don’t like him. He was even funny at times during lecture As fas as partial credit goes, from time to time, they do give partial credit for certain answers. Since there is no actual way of showing your work in orgo (unlike gen chem), the grading system sucks.
No class on Tuesdays/Thursdays? I am so jealous! Your schedule seems pretty manageable. I also prefer having no breaks between class.</p>