<p>And we started in August, and the way my classes are structured, I've had midterms in them already. (3 equally weighted midterms make up the grades). And the Russian is biweekly exams, and weekly quizzes, and all that fun stuff that comes with a language.</p>
<p>lol your classes sound easy-</p>
<p>take a science</p>
<p>Yeah. I'd imagine sciences are a bit harder. Looking back in high school, History, English, type classes always came pretty easy for me, and I did well in them. (Well except for sophomore history...that teacher was crazy...!). </p>
<p>But also looking back, I did take a lot of math/science also. Geometry, Trignometry, IB Pre-Calc, IB Calculus, IB Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, IB Chemistry, IB Biology, Physics.</p>
<p>I'm not going to push my luck on sciences and get too creative there. Just need 9 credits as a Journalism student, and am already told I have to take Stats as one of them. (Which shouldn't be too bad, since I already took a college equiv stats course in high school). Then I'll probably stick to Calculus for another of my science courses, and then physics for my lab science course, and I'll be done with science. For some reason I found physics to be really easy to grasp. I think Chemistry would deifnitely be a course where I wouldn't do too hot (probably still should get a B though, since I find it difficult to shed 20% off my grade). Calculus should be pretty easy, since I already took it once, and have a good understanding of it right now, plus it will be needed if I want to take some upper level Economics courses.</p>
<p>Yeah, you should take chem, especially orgo - find out the meaning of hard work.</p>
<p>I find all my classes challenging except for swimming :) If I did no extracurricular activities, I'd have a lot of time to work, but debate and the newspaper take up quite a bit of time. Classes usually start at 8:30 and end at 4:30 for me, so my classes basically take up as much time as high school classes do. It depends on what schedule you get as well. As for what wutangfinancial said, I think that doing little work and spending all your college years partying and sleeping is just the biggest waste of time and money. I mean, why go to college?</p>
<p>Its been my experience thus far (only four weeks)
that my high school classes over prepared me for the amount of work I'd get in college.. so it SEEMS easier to me that a lot of other people.
Hopefully that will stay the same for all four years haha.</p>
<p>Most schools let you skip introductory classes (even if they're "required") as long as you make up the credits with an extra upper-level course.</p>
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Its been my experience thus far (only four weeks)
that my high school classes over prepared me for the amount of work I'd get in college.. so it SEEMS easier to me that a lot of other people.
Hopefully that will stay the same for all four years haha.
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<p>Yeah. Looks like that damned IB program, and those nights up late junior year actually are going to pay off for me.</p>
<p>Yeah, same here, except for tons of AP course (my high school didn't have an IB program)</p>
<p>College is easy if your major is relatively easy and you don't take any science/math related courses. They take up a lot of studying time compared to most other majors, and you really notice the diffrerence in college.</p>
<p>Lucky. I'm a Freshman taking upperclassmen classes and I'm not struggling, but it's not cake walk either.</p>
<p>Well, I'm actually also finding it kinda easy, and my schedule is the exact opposite. I'm in honors calc, physics with calc, chem, and philosophy. My hardest class is honors calc. I think the reason why I'm finding it so easy is because I do manage my time well. Most of my homework is due at the end of the week, like friday and thursday. I start it all on monday, or sunday, and then once i've done all the problems I know how to do, I go to the help sessions during the middle of the week, when there is usually no one there. I really do think its all about time management. As long as you don't wait until the night before a class to start the homework, then college is easy.</p>
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<p>Easiness is relative. There are people who breeze through math and science courses and struggle with humanities.</p>
<p>I'm a freshmen too, and what I've realized so far is that the key to getting good grades is organization. You have to make sure you orgainze your time well so you dont fall behind on any classes. Even if things are due in a month start them early so that when your done you have time to revise.
Also if you wait till the last minute all the work will start to pile up and then your screwed.
your right, college does seem easy now , but I'm pretty sure its only going to get harder as you go along. It definitly depends on school, major and proffesor.
I thnk your proffesor is most important because of the style of teaching and grading.</p>
<p>"I really do think its all about time management."</p>
<p>I completely agree. Good job being good about it; I'm still learning ;)</p>
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I agree it's relative. What makes math and science courses challenging is the effort required to get through them, but they will be easy if you're fundamentally strong in them. I'm more of a math/science person myself, so I speak from experience.</p>
<p>college IS easy. i challenged myself by taking lot of language classes. and i still get time to hang out with friends and play halo all day.</p>
<p>My son was worried his science major would be too hard, but now he's thinking it will be too easy. He claims he's the one of the few students who really studies and can't believe how some fellow students were even accepted into the same program. I'm hoping that he'll join a few clubs now that he knows he can handle the academics. Sophomore year's Organic Chem. is supposed to be difficult.</p>
<p>engineering isn't really that hard, but it's really time consuming. It's hard in the sense that it's hard to be motivated to do assignments, labs, and all that every single day.</p>
<p>What’s your major? If it’s communications or sociology or psychology, it’ll usually be easier than high school. I thought the same thing my Freshman year but then I realized why. I actually enjoyed going to class and the classes I was in my Freshman year, and the way the classes were structured (no pointless busywork, mostly just lecture and exams) was a better fit for me than how high school classes were. Granted, I don’t go to a very prestigous school, I go to an ordinary state school, but as time goes on (for me anyway) my classes get harder and sometimes more boring, but at least I know what I need to do to succeed in them. I also joined a lot of clubs to keep myself busy because I knew I’d have free time, and it’s working. I’m on my college speech team which is harder than taking any class I’ve taken in college, and it challenges me to think and do things I wouldn’t normally do. So…join a club, fraternity, or activity that interests you and once that starts consuming your life, college won’t be super easy anymore because you’ll have limited time to do things.</p>