<p>I'm just curious, I got it straight from the AE handbook. </p>
<p>Calc 1 (I got a B in precalc)
English Comp 1
Chem (General)
Computing for Engineers
Wellness (I can get out of this, right?)</p>
<p>only change with 2nd semester according to the website is simply physics and an Introduction to Aerospace Engineering. I already did the History class last summer. </p>
<p>So I'm just curious, how hard is this schedule going to be, for the average freshman majoring in Aerospace? I've heard many things about how the comp sci is the killer, but I want to know for sure what kind of stuff I'll be dealing with in the fall. </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>It’s not going to be that bad, at least not relative to other semesters.</p>
<p>Personally, I would take the first semester easy, though, and not take either Chem or CS the first semester. Instead I’d take Psych 1101 as an elective + Psych 1000.</p>
<p>Well I’m guessing that the science and CS will be the toughest courses there, so is Wellness Health (Psych?) I took psych last summer, too along with the history. </p>
<p>so is it going to be possible to rush/work/etc. and still do well</p>
<p>That’s a pretty reasonable and common schedule. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s far from hell.</p>
<p>Wellness is not a hard class. You just have to be disciplined enough to keep up with the textbook and not fall behind. That alone guarantees you at least a B and very likely an A. People get C’s and D’s in wellness because they don’t go to class and don’t read the book.</p>
<p>my exact courses last year. chem will take lots of time, calc and cs will just be plain difficult and time intensive. english should be blowoff (besides project/essay) and wellness semi-blowoff, since they like to get you on the tests.</p>
<p>I can’t find this anywhere, what is Wellness? and is it possible to rush and/or work with a schedule like this and do well?</p>
<p>Wellness is health. Rush is only first week but if you have fraternity events then it might be harder. It’s possible.</p>
<p>I am by no means the normal student but if I spread all the work out evenly (which I hardly ever do) and shot for A’s…maybe 2-4 hours a night of homework average, but that’s me, could be different for someone else or if you get easy teachers.</p>
<p>One of my friends from high school rushed his first semester and still earned a 4.0. It’s definitely doable, but it is not easy.</p>
<p>How difficult/manageable would it be to take both calculus 3 and differential equations the second semester of freshman year?</p>
<p>It depends on what else you plan on taking.</p>
<p>If I follow the suggested schedule, I will have something like Calc. 2, Comp. 2, Wellness, Intro. To Computing, and a History course my first semester, and for the second semester, I want to have Calc. 3 and Diff. Equations along with the suggested Intro to Object-Oriented Programming, Social Science Elective, and Lab Science, probably Chemistry.</p>
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<p>It’s not that difficult - the classes are sufficiently different that there isn’t a dependency. The bigger question is: why? It would be rare to find a 1st semester sophomore class that has Diff EQ as a prereq. </p>
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<p>Yes, that’s a common schedule. The big issue is to stay committed to your grades and to not get too wrapped up with partying / drinking with the assumption that the classes will take care of themselves if you put in some minimal effort.</p>
<p>I’m going to be majoring in applied mathematics, and I’m trying to find a way to spread out some of the math courses so I don’t have several semesters with 4+ math courses. That would just be too much math to take at once. Also, if I could get it out of the way, I would be a prereq for the partial differential equations courses, and it would give me some room for other math electives.</p>
<p>it would be a prereq*</p>
<p>I think I know what one does in chem, calc, and english but I’m curious. What’s Comp Sci like? What about it is so time consuming?</p>
<p>You will be using a program called MATLAB. You will learn to hate it (at first) but appreciate it with another class. It is time consuming in that the homework (which is assigned weekly) is ridiculously hard and gets progressively harder. What makes the homework worse is that more than half the stuff you do for your homework will not show up on the mid-terms nor the exam. At least, that was the case when I took it and that may very well have changed now.</p>
<p>Also, you may complain and whine that there is no relevancy (at that point in time) as to the things you are doing in your homework, but you will see them…eventually. It may be the next semester, or it may be two to three years down the line, but it will come up again…</p>
<p>To be honest, that schedule looks like hell to me. It’s 16 brutal hours. I would drop CS, because it’s a time consuming class and Chemistry is a lab science course. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a doable schedule, but not something you want to go through first semester. Dropping CS will make a world of a difference. 13-15 hours is what you should try to go for first semester, unless you think you can handle more.</p>
<p>ok here’s a final question- after one’s exhausted the # of times they can change their major before FASET, can one change the major at FASET session?</p>
<p>a buddy asked me this and I have no idea. </p>
<p>thanks too</p>
<p>Definitely! That’s one of the ‘major’ (?) perks of going to FASET!</p>
<p>I’m 98% positive that as long as you change majors before your
major FASET session is up, it does not count towards the 2
‘freebies’ that you have!</p>
<p>NuclearE
Summer: english 1101
History
Fall: English 1102
Cal 1
Chem
GT 1000
Wellness
Spring: Physics
Cal 2
Intro NE
CS(or should i wait until sophmore year or and just take Wellness)
HOW DO YOU THINK THIS SCHEDULE LOOKS FOR AN AVERAGE STUDENT?</p>