<p>screw what everyone says.
Follw your heart and know what you can do.
I took 14 my first sem and I was really ****ed because i wasted free 4 credits that i couldve taken.</p>
<p>18 is not bad, if you don’t have any EC/work.
18+partying is perfectly ok. Know your limits though, don’t go overboard…</p>
<p>Yosup…you really need to figure out what is best for you and only you! Basing your decisions on what others tell you to do is crazy because everyone is sooo different. Have some faith, you made it this far. You are correct in preparing yourself to be in a much bigger pond than high school…so just stick with your chosen schedule and adjust your study habits accordingly. You will soon know what is best for YOU. During my s orientation, we learned that the U of M provides so many resources to help you. Get in a study group right off the bat for those tough classes and become familiar with the math/science centers/peer tutors/office hours. Maybe you will be just fine or maybe you will need some support…only YOU will know…but you want to go into Engineering. so there is no easy way to avoid the hard things…take a deep breath and enjoy all of the great times and tough times you will face in college. Your schedule, teachers, dorm placement, roomate are things you cannot always control…but your attitude and inner strength are things you can control…so stop worrying and asking others to tell you what to do and…just dive into your next phase of life head first!! Start believing in yourself and you will be fine!!</p>
<p>I agree with littlefalls.</p>
<p>My only advice is if in the first few weeks you are looking ahead through the syllabus and feeling swamped, be aware of the drop/add deadline and if once you start classes you feel you need to, you can consider switching up your courses or dropping something altogether. You don’t have to decide right now. In the first two weeks of class there is no W on your transcript for withdrawing. Sometimes when the semester starts and you get a feel for the professor and their requirements you realize you worried for nothing, and other times what you thought was going to be an easier schedule is perhaps more than you bargained for. It’s okay to tweak things, you just want to do it as early as possible in the semester so you don’t fall behind in any classes you add. Last semester I switched courses right before the deadline and I made it a point to email the professor first and ask about how the logistics of adding late would go and they were very helpful.</p>
<p>I am generally one to soldier through whatever schedule I sign up for with no changes, but last semester was the first time I changed something and I wondered why I’d never done it before. lol So just know that option is there for you if you need it. I am sure you will work all this out along the way and be fine.</p>
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<p>Yosup, to add to the above post, there is a little-known fact that you should be aware of and should ask your advisors about once you get to UM. If you are a first-semester freshman, the drop/add deadline is actually extended. I forgot what the window was, but basically there is an additional period past the official drop/add deadline where you can drop a class and not have a W appear on your official transcript; however, a W will appear on your unofficial transcript. It is only for your first full semester (spring and summer do not count, so even if you take summer 2010 classes fall 2010 will count as your ‘first’ full semester).</p>
<p>“^wonder how many of those freshman actually complete their 18 credits? Or is 18 credits really not that bad?”</p>
<p>18 is not that bad, but it’s probably more than you’re used to in high school.</p>
<p>I’m with square in that you should do what you feel like you can handle.</p>
<p>Engr 100 , Chem 130, 125, 126, Calc 115 and a 3 credit Humanities Public speaking(Mythological speeches).
All together 16 credits. For first semester…is it too much or a decent freshman start?</p>
<p>^ You should be fine, its probably a bit easier than mine since you’re in calc I, and don’t have UROP. But I heard 100 can be kinda time consuming (more so than 101) so be careful.</p>
<p>^
What about a similar 15 Unit schedule (Engr 100, Chem, Calc 1, Engr 200) with 10 hours UROP?</p>
<p>I’m hoping my Chem and Calc classes will be easy because I tested out of general chem and Calc but I’m taking those …
Sounds like it’ll be a time sink though.</p>
<p>^what the heck is engr 200?</p>
<p>He probably means that 2 credit ENGR class that introduces you to all the fields of engineering (dam, I wish I had room in my schedule for that class…).</p>
<p>But yeah blaw, your schedule seems really doable to me, but I’m gonna be a freshman too so im not really positive…</p>
<p>^That’s Engr 110…</p>
<p>^Oh yeah, I just assumed he meant 110, since thats the only 2 credit engineering class I can think of…i could be wrong tho.</p>
<p>If you haven’t figured out by now, the typical freshman schedule looks something like this:</p>
<p>Math 115
Chem 125, 126, 130
Engr 100/101
And an elective</p>
<p>The school doesn’t give you much freedom as a freshman, so you just have to get all the prereqs out of the way. We all had to do it, you’ll be fine…</p>
<p>Ok thanks, yeah like I said I was just worried because EVERYONE at orientation was telling me to take 13-15 credits max…</p>
<p>13 is too low. I recommend 15-16.</p>