<p>Personally, I'm used to getting the syllabus and leaving on the first day, but not this year! I had lectures in all of my classes except one. Also, all of my professors this semester are male, which hasn't been the case yet.</p>
<p>The faculty at the Smith School of Business are really top-notch and I love being reminded of that!!</p>
<p>I'm really impressed with my New Product Marketing professor's background-- he worked at McKinsey after getting his Masters, and then went on to Wharton for his PhD.<br>
For those of you familiar with QUEST, I'm taking the senior practicum this year. It's taught by Dr. Suarez, the executive director of the program, who used to be the Director of Presidential Quality at the White House for the Clinton administration (no jokes about presidential quality please! :)). Taking classes with him is always a treat because he has some great stories and really knows his stuff.</p>
<p>All in all, busy but interesting first days for me.</p>
<p>I'll speak for Astrogirl here....after such a grueling senior year in high school, with all APs and her personal pushing to keep all A's and end up as the val of her class, this semester looks to be shaping up as a "vacation" for D. She's got a couple of classes that will be a lot of work, but are in her major, so she's extremely psyched. She's also in a couple of Honors Seminars, but nothing has got her too worked up, at least on first blush. I'm terribly jealous.... I wish I were starting up in college again, with all the stuff ahead of her that she has. So far, everything with UMD has met or exceeded her expectations. (Just wish there was A/C in Denton rooms!!!)</p>
<p>Much better than high school! Basically we're doing eighth grade math in two of my classes (MATH340 and ENES102), so I have lots of time to hang out with friends. But the CORE classes are so bull****ty. The lectures are useless and the assignments are pointless. Write an essay on how buildings make you feel? W.T.F? If there's one thing making me regret coming to UMD, it's CORE.</p>
<p>I'd just like to add that UMD may be too much fun. In the dorms all I could think about was playing cards in the lounge, going rock climbing or swimming, etc. that I had to come home for the weekend just to get my homework done without any distractions.</p>
<p>My schedule is horrible:
Econ416: Economic Development
Econ422: Econometrics I
Math410: Advanced Calculus
Math406: Number Theory
Honrs299Q: Who Owns the Classical Past </p>
<p>This schedule is going to kill me. espicllay the two math classes.</p>
<p>a778899: i'm curious what CORE classes you're taking. they do get less bull****ty (usually), since for you they're CORE but for someone else they might be a requirement for a major.</p>