<p>Hi</p>
<p>I was signing up for classes and for many of my classes, there is a LEC (lecture?) and DIS (discussion) sections. DO I sign up for both or just one of them? I"m so confused please help O_O
Thanks!</p>
<p>You need to sign up for both; the system wouldn’t automatically add your discussion section to your schedule.</p>
<p>a lecture is where you go sit and listen to the professor talk, and the discussion is a smaller group with a TA where you do supplemental activities and/or review things from the lecture. so hopefully you can see why you have to register for both, but you have to register for each separately.</p>
<p>It looks like i"'m having around 1-2 lectures a day and 1 discussion a day Mon-fri…is it better to have 15 minutes between classes or an hour?</p>
<p>Right now, my schedule looks like
Econ 1110 (Intro to microecon 3CR)
Math 2210 (Linear Alg 4CR)
Japan 1101 (Intro to japanese, 6CR)</p>
<p>And i have to add a PE and a Writing seminar…</p>
<p>Also, where are some good ways to take classes over the summer to get credit (math/econ related)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Aside from your lunch break, it’s better to have smaller gaps between your classes. Otherwise, you’ll be hanging around with not enough time to go back to your dorm or to the library to get a decent amount of work done, but too much time to head to your next class.</p>
<p>That’s what I figured…I feel kinda lazy since I’m only taking those three classes + writing lab</p>
<p>I had a similar schedule in the fall of my freshman year…3 regular classes (including intro to mandarin, 6cr), FWS, and PE. It was an appropriate workload for my first semester of college, considering that chinese took up a lot of time (as I’m sure japanese will) and so did my writing seminar.</p>
<p>I never understood how kids in A&S could get away with so little class time per week yet still have a sufficient number of credit hours.</p>
<p>15 minutes is a good enough time between classes.
I don’t think you know which buildings your classes are located at, but if you get a class at the far edges of the campus, you might need more than 15 minutes.
Have you considered a bike?</p>
<p>I resent that statement Chendrix.</p>
<p>um…why would you resent that? It’s true.</p>
<p>Engineering courses have lectures, 2 hour discussions, and 3 hour labs.
My fall semester of sophomore year I had 27 in-class hours a week for 19 credit hours.</p>
<p>In arts, I would have had 19 in-class hours max.</p>
<p>I was wondering about discussions. see I was looking at what classes I have to take next year and some classes have a discussion before the lecture. So my question is what do we discuss if we haven’t been lectured yet?</p>
<p>you probably won’t actually have a discussion about the material for the class, but you should go anyway in case there is attendance or paperwork. there could be absolutely nothing, though, so then you can just leave!</p>