<p>I have already posted this in the FSU forum, but I want opinions from other college students as well.</p>
<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>
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
<p>What are your opinions on the difficulty of this schedule?</p>
<p>I have no idea how hard art classes are. For me that would be terrible but I cant draw to save my life. I am in engineering and we are expected to take around 17 hours to graduate on time. I think you will be fine.</p>
<p>Hell if you fall asleep in art class with your head on a piece of paper. The smudges you leave behind could be considered ‘modern art’. Worth at least a B without even trying. I think you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>As a side note, the same tatic DOES NOT work for math…Trust me, I’ve tried it, all through out HS as a matter of face…Fact*.</p>
<p>Art classes take a LOT of time. my roommate is a studio art major and she can tell you that any decent art class takes a ridiculous amount of time because if you mess up at all, it is very difficult to fix your mistakes and often you have to redo complete sections to fix one little mistake. That seems manageable, but if it’s not you could always drop one.</p>
<p>17 hours is not bad in general, and I don’t know much about art classes, but personally I would die if I were taking 17 hours of art, english, and language, all things that would take up so much of my time.</p>
<p>A warning for you, don’t take Japanese just because it’s “cool”. It’s bloody hard, and a lot of people drop it after realizing they’re going to have to work at it a lot harder than something like Spanish or French they might have taken in high school. Of course, if you’re going to work at it, it’s fine, but you might be low on free time if you combine that with all those other classes.</p>
<p>Schedule doesn’t look too bad, but I really can’t speak for how easy or hard an art course will be. I think since none of them are upper level courses that’s something to consider. If those were all upper level courses and this was your first time taking that many courses at once i’d tell you that it might be a good idea to shave a few credits off, but since they’re all lower level i think you should be fine. In general 17 credits really isn’t that bad. My first semester of college I took 18 credits and did pretty well. This semester i’m signed up for 15 and i’m thinking about bumping it up to 18 again.</p>
<p>17 units at the sound of it doesn’t seem too bad. But units aren’t really a good indicator of courseload. Taking many art classes may be time-consuming, or maybe not. Perhaps try taking the courses and dropping a class if it’s difficult to manage.</p>