<p>I am currently at FSU for the summer and I'm already experiencing college life and a couple of courses here at FSU. I am already registered for the fall, and my advisor gave me 13 credit hours. </p>
<p>One of these is Art "Success Strategies" and I really didn't see this as much of a challenge.... at all. I'm used to taking rigorous art classes with constant work, so the two art classes do not seem stressful to me either. My advisor placed me in all of the art classes herself without my knowledge. I can't take them out because I need them for my major (Graphic Design).
I decided to add Elementary Japanese 1 this morning (because I already have some basic knowledge of the language and I'm very interested in learning it), which added 4 credit hours to my schedule for a grand total of 17. My classes don't seem like they're difficult enough to be impossible to take all at once, but people keep gawking at me when they hear that I have 17 credit hours.</p>
<p>My Fall 2011 schedule:
1. ART1000 02 07980 SUCCESS STRATEGIES 1 FAB 0332 T 04:00 PM 05:20 PM</p>
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<li><p>ART1201C 05 07757 2D FOUNDATIONS 3 FAB 0301 T R 12:50 PM 03:20 PM</p></li>
<li><p>ART1300C 01 00251 DRAWING FOUNDATIONS 3 FAB 0330 M W 12:50 PM 03:20 PM</p></li>
<li><p>ENC1145 30 12578 FRESHMN TOPIC COMPOS 3 BEL 0243 M W 03:35 PM 04:50 PM</p></li>
<li><p>JPN1120 02 06293 ELEM JAPANESE I 4 BEL 0002 MTWRF 09:05 AM 09:55 AM</p></li>
<li><p>MGF1107 06 05086 PRACTCAL FINITE MATH 3 FLH 0275 T R 11:00 AM 12:15 PM
HTL 0105 F 11:15 AM 12:05 PM
Total Hours Enrolled: 17</p></li>
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<p>What are your opinions on the difficulty of this schedule?</p>
<p>My suggestion is to give it a try, but DROP by the last day of drop add if you do not think you can manage it. The biggest challange is that you have no breathing room in your schedule except for Friday afternoon. T/Th will be tough days, M/W not much better. And for every hour of class time you will have about 2 hours of out of the classroom work time :eek:</p>
<p>Hey SunnyFlorida,
What do you think of BSC2011C back to back with PHY2053C - with about 15 mins in between? I tested out of PHY2053C with AP, but I do not think I have all the basics needed for a certain test. I was in an I.B physics class studying the I.B. curriculum for physics, while I studied for the AP test on my own. I have had a lot of Bio I and most of Bio II from I.B in the past. Thanks for helping.</p>
<p>Agree with Sunny.</p>
<p>The problem with university classes is that they tend to snowball in difficulty and give little warning before you’re at risk of a weak grade.</p>
<p>English will involve significant time reading and writing papers. Japanese will involve daily significant work. Math almost always takes significant time. I don’t know about the art classes, but that does not mean they will be academically easy.</p>
<p>Fifteen minutes between classes is fine IF you are physically close to your next class AND the professor elects not to run over. Otherwise you risk being late.</p>
<p>As an FSU graduate 15 minutes works only if you don’t have to cross much of campus. While FSU has a fairly compact campus you still have the usual crowds to navigate, traffic, rain and friends.</p>
<p>Don’t forget fall is football time too! I got caught last fall with 15 minutes (or less) to get between classes located on opposite sides of campus. I had to get from the extreme east side of campus to the far west side of campus, often in less than 15 minutes when 1st professor ran late. I couldn’t do it on foot, even jogging some (maybe once or twice), and would end up at 2nd class late and not able to even find a seat. I ended up getting a bike which helped a lot even after having to park and lock and unlock the bike on each end.</p>