<p>Im taking chem6a, bild3, math20c and econ3 coming fall.</p>
<p>i need good gpa for med school so I was wondering how tough are these classes..</p>
<p>i know how its different for everyone, but overall??</p>
<p>is your priority in coming to college to learn, or to grade-grub by any means necessary?</p>
<p>and yes, it's different for everyone. the most accurate "overall" view you can get is from a professor who's taught the course multiple times.</p>
<p>those classes are all pretty straightforward, not very tough. if you are truly premed material, you should have no problem acing them</p>
<p>i think classes at any prestigious research institution like ucsd will be tough. but isnt that a good thing so you will be better prepared for med school?</p>
<p>It's all relative. Those classes aren't too difficult.</p>
<p>in a theatre class i forgot which one... all you do is watch movies.</p>
<p>how hard can that be?</p>
<p>as said before, it is all relative</p>
<p>I like the saying:</p>
<p>"When you and a friend are in the jungle running from a tiger, you don't have to run faster than the tiger; you have to run faster than your friend."</p>
<p>As you're planning on med school, you'll find yourself competing against a tough crowd. That's just a general answer to your topic question, I don't know about those classes in particular.</p>
<p>haha thanks</p>
<p>I don't know about everyone else, but those are intense classes! GenChem and GenBio both require an immense amount of time...and calculus requires a lot of time as well for going over problem solving...I would say each class requires 10-14 hours of studying a week. I'm not sure about econ because I haven't taken it. If you are serious about going into medicine, I say don't jeopardize your gpa by taking 3 pre-med classes in one quarter. I've been on the semester system for 2 years and cannot imagine taking all those classes in that system. If this is your first quarter, take it easy...if you plan your classes well, you should have no problem graduating on time. It's better to do well in your classes than get them done "at the right time."</p>
<p>10-14 hours per class? uh ... i don't think there are enough hours in the week to do that for every class you're enrolled in. studying shouldn't be a hard and fast number of hours per week; you should know when you feel comfortable with the material and stop there. there's lots more to college than rotting in the library for four years.</p>
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<li>one who never studied until exams rolled around (to each his own)</li>
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<p>^ you wouldn't understand cause you probably majored in theatre</p>
<p>cause theres no way your studying techniques would be work in engineering</p>
<p>astrina was a biochem/chem major.</p>
<p>I would say class difficulties can be very relative, although there usually is some general consensus. For example most people would probably agree that Math 20c is easier than 20b and 20e is harder than both. This may seem odd, but, for me, the easiest class i have taken so far is Chem 6a. I would study 2-3 hours before the exams and i got an A (w/ Dr. C), but I also saw many of my friends struggle with chem and i think that most people would think that chem is a difficult class. The reason i did well was that the class played to my strengths, but it can play to other peoples weaknesses so it can be very relative. I have heard that econ3 and bild3 are not that difficult. </p>
<p>10-14 hours per class on average is a little much (I put that much over the entire quarter in chem 6a, lol) maybe with a difficult class, professor, or chapter, but overall that is too much time and i think you should be able to understand a weeks worth of chem 6a in fewer than 10-14 hours, especially with backing from high school chem.</p>
<p>I am not sure why so many people speak of engineering as if it is so hard. Sure you have a bunch of classes to take and engineering projects to complete, but many of the engineering disciplines just take some of the easiest concepts from the natural sciences and apply them. Mechanical engineering is the perfect example; it mostly uses mechanics and statistical mechanics. These are hardly the most difficult subjects in physics.</p>
<p>lol.. 20b is harder than 20c? phew
and did u mean czwork by dr.c??
my professors are czwork for chem, wills for bio, verstra for math, and munteanu for econ btw..
hopefully they are not tough ones..?</p>
<p>True, it's all relative, and most people from UCSD are pretty cocky, so they'll play it off like it was no big deal. Uhuh... it's called hindsight bias. When these guys were taking the courses, they were slaving away and miserable. Now that they're done, they pat and overcredit themselves with the grand illusion that they encountered no problems.</p>
<p>Take it from an alumni. UCSD is known for being socially six feet under. You look around, and everyone is depressed. Nobody is thinking, "Wow, what a cake walk. Life is good." </p>
<p>LOL trust me. Behind the veneer austere, everybody is bordering suicide, but they'll never let you believe it.</p>
<p>My roommate, who was a structural engineer said it best, when he was looking for other classes to boost his GPA: "There is no such thing as an easy class at UCSD."</p>
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<p>Behind the veneer austere, everybody is bordering suicide, but they'll never let you believe it.</p>
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<p>Actually some of us aren't because we don't care about our grades. We get our sanity back, are able to enjoy learning and our education and are able to walk around campus happy.</p>
<p>It's nifty, you should try it sometime.</p>
<p>Maybe your structural engineer roommate could've embaraced his feminine side and taken ballet -- guaranteed A for every guy who takes it!</p>
<p>Arent some of the classes just based on the scale of T.A.s??</p>
<p>This could be a biased topic. IMO the humanity classes are harder only for having to convince T.A.s while Science/math classes are more so knowing the concepts and knowing how to think a certain way to manipulate them. </p>
<p>Not to mention art classes... My art professor only gave A's to people with exceptional talents which led me to take the class Pass/No pass haha.... art GE's...</p>
<p>I've gotten lucky with Math and Econ classes by writing every formula I know and applying it somehow to every problem. I would surprise myself by only missing 1-2 points in an 8-9 point problem even when I was just trying everything.</p>
<p>Classes that are MC scantron are harder such that you don't get partial credit, but the material is usually much easier.</p>
<p>And there are some easy classes--CSE3, COGS3, MUS13 all come to mind.</p>
<p>I always surface to recommend CSE12 to people looking for easy classes. But that's just because I'm a dick. :)</p>