<p>One’s habits change once one gets to college, even semester to semester. Thursdays this past fall, I was in class from 9 AM until 2:30 PM nonstop. I didn’t like it, but it was doable. A 1 hour break is really ineffective because you can’t get much work done in that time, too.</p>
<p>Re: Orgo - FWIW, my friends have noted that those who take orgo as sophomores stress out much less about it and even tend to do a bit better.</p>
<p>Sorry to interupt, but has anyone taken Japanese? I am very interested in taking it. I do have a problem though. I am completely illiterate in hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Having said that, my verbal japanese is rather good, and I will pick up the rest quickly because a lot of my family is Japanese, and I have been speaking it my whole life. Any advice? Will I be bored or what?</p>
<p>I came in with AP Japanese from High School, so I started in 300; I don’t really know much about the beginning level. </p>
<p>If you’re going to start from the beginning, you should probably talk with one of the professors to see what you should do: reading and writing is a big component of what we learn, but we also spend a lot of time on conversation and dialogues. If you’re a native speaker who just doesn’t know how to write, it might become boring. But then again, if you’ve only been speaking with your family, maybe you still have things to learn about keigo, etc. So it definitely is something you should talk with someone about.</p>
<p>I have a quick question about CHEM 0330. I’m playing around with my schedule on Mocha/Banner and I can’t seem to figure out what CHEM 0330 - M01 is? It says common meeting, but it doesn’t have a day or time.</p>
<p>^ C Hour - MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
D Hour - MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
I Hour - TTh 10:30-11:50 AM</p>
<p>Those are the only three times up there. The other ones are blank or TBA.</p>
<p>Having blocks is fine. Personally, I didn’t like having more than a lunch break between classes, because then I had blocks of time to hang out with friends and get work done. But it seems like most people adjust to whatever schedule they have.</p>
<p>@swim: I actually think your proposed class schedule is pretty good, but I recognize it’s changed a bit since you first proposed it. Remember, you really don’t need to have your plans set in stone until two weeks after classes start, so be sure to check things out, read the syllabus, and make sure you’re actually interested. And Howard was a great professor, at least for Into the Machine, but she REALLY enjoys creative, independent ideas (one of her favorite projects was a comic book rather than a final paper), and she also really likes to talk. I’ll admit I fell asleep a few times, but that was partly due to sitting in the sunlight (warmth makes me drowsy), and having a very, very long day on Tuesdays.</p>
<p>Without any programming experience, 15 or 17 are both great options. It really depends on the person, and what they want to get out of it, as to which is the better course to take. 19, however, should only be taken by people who have done a bit of programming before (i.e. found AP CS easy, or took courses beyond, or want to really challenge themselves). I foudn it helpful to look into some of the CS18 stuff over winter break, but it’s not needed. But learning on your own is always a good thing, so if he wants to, sure, take a swing at things. Or try to learn a basic language, and maybe look at [Project</a> Euler](<a href=“About - Project Euler”>Archived Problems - Project Euler) for some programming-lite, but thinking-heavy problems.</p>
<p>@anon345: CHEM33 has this weird system on Banner where you have to register for 4 different components:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The “common meeting” (M01): This is just to keep track of all the students registered for all 3 sections of CHEM33, so it does not meet at all. Consequently it won’t have a day and time.</p></li>
<li><p>The lecture (primary meeting) (S01, S02, S03): This will be the time slot you will be attending your lectures.</p></li>
<li><p>The “conference” (C01…): This is actually just the pre-lab lecture. You can choose to go to any one as long as it takes place before your actual lab. For example if your labs are on Wednesdays, you can choose to attend the pre-lab lecture on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays.</p></li>
<li><p>The lab (L01…): Self-explanatory.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks a lot chsowlflax17! </p>
<p>Although I will start learning JAVA in a little while, as you suggested, I was thinking of using the ‘shopping period’ to get to the right class, between CS 15 and CS 17. So, as of now, I will pick the class that feels right based on my SP experience.</p>
<p>How much time per week do you estimate CS 15 and CS 17 take?</p>
<p>^ Is it on CR?? They tell you how much effort they put into it.</p>
<p>^ I’m sorry, but what is CR? I’m not familiar with that term.</p>
<p>CR = The Critical Review.</p>
<p>^ .org</p>
<p>Useful reviews of classes. I’d put CS classes at between 6 and 10 hours a week… but if you’re one of the addictive-programming types (like myself) it could add up to a lot more.</p>
<p>That really depends. I found CS19 to take 15-20 hours (and I wasn’t struggling, they were just massive projects), and everyone finds 32 takes more than even that. 22, 31, and 51 though, are generally less than 6-10.</p>
<p>I was referring to what friends have told me about CS 15 and 17… but I think no one should expect CS to take less than 8 hours a week on average for the first few semesters.</p>
<p>Let’s see how I do next semester with 5 classes including 17… <em>die</em></p>
<p>Uroogla, did you say 15 and 17 would also take 15 to 20 hours? I see you mentioned CS19 above, but I assume the projects are bigger in that class?</p>
<p>I looked over the projects in 15 and 17, and they’re significantly less extensive than those I had in 19, so for the same person, 15 and 17 might take half the time. Those in 15 and 17 tend to have less of a background, though, so I’d expect hollyert’s estimate is about right (low for some people).</p>
<p>Most the people in 17 had some experience, though few had functional programming experience. I had none, and it always seemed to take me a few hours longer than my friends. I don’t remember a week I took less than 12 hours for 17 (but I also was addicted, and would do practice problems instead of other hw), and there may have been one week I spent more than 25 hours, but typically, especially when projects were due, I’d say 15-20. But some of my friends (some who really could have been in 19, but didn’t want to do the harder class) said they spent less than 10/week.</p>
<p>Junior year I took AP CompSci A and got a 5. But I haven’t done much in the way of programming since, and I would definitely need a refresher before writing in java again. Should I take 17 or 19? The CompSci class I took was pretty easy for me, so I didn’t do anything outside of class and I did go above and beyond the requirements on a few projects.</p>