Mocha -- let's think of schedules! (& current students: advice?!)

<p>can '13-ers log in to critical review yet? i just tried and it wasn’t cooperating</p>

<p>Nope and it hurts my feelings:</p>

<p>You don’t belong to the Brown community. Access is denied.</p>

<p>My theoretical schedule:</p>

<p>A First-year Seminar, Hopefully COGS 0100E-- Reading science, understanding science
ECON 0110–Into to Econ (wheeee!!)
ENGL 0130–Intro to Research Paper writing (cuz I’m so disorganized when doing research)</p>

<p>and depending how I do on AP Calc on Wednesday,
either MATH 0170–Advanced Placement Calc or MATH 0070–Calc for Social Studies</p>

<p>or…</p>

<p>ENGN 1930G–Entrepreneurship I</p>

<p>I’m thinking: </p>

<p>LITR0710: Writers on Writing Seminar
LITR0110A: Fiction I
PHIL0990R: Rational Belief
SIGN0100: American Sign Language I, II</p>

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<p>ENG193 is probably going to be tough to get into and you should probably take EN9 first.</p>

<p>ENGL13 is typically not super helpful unless you’ve had a really poor formal background in writing. It’s certainly not going to be a huge help at making you an organized researcher.</p>

<p>No one who has had any exposure to calc should take MA7 under any circumstance, and certainly not someone who may place into 17 under some circumstances. MA10 is the step below 17 for those who have taken AB.</p>

<p>Thank youuuu! Back to ze drawing board!</p>

<p>Having revised:</p>

<p>For sure:
COLT 0610C - Banned Books
ECON 0110 - Intro to Econ</p>

<p>Either:
AMCV 1520 - Technology & Material Culture in America
or
ENGN 0090 - Management of Industrial/NonProfit Orgs</p>

<p>Plus an FYS:</p>

<p>COGS 0100E - Reading Science/Understanding Science
or
ANTH 0066J - So You Want to Change the World</p>

<p>What this says about me: I like social science.
LOL</p>

<p>Engin 9 is a great class, and not too hard.
Econ is also a good class – some people find it easy, some don’t.
Am Civ: I’ll PM you.</p>

<p>Poseur: yeah, I got that too. It actually kind of stung.
Shady Lane: Isn’t fiction 1 a sophomores and up only course?</p>

<p>nope! not that it says, anyway. </p>

<p>LITR0110A: Fiction I</p>

<p>A workshop for students who have little or no previous experience in writing fiction. Enrollment limited to 17 per section. This course is limited to undergraduates. S/NC.</p>

<p>Fiction 1 was the best course I chose to take first semester freshman year.</p>

<p>yaaaay, glad to hear it.</p>

<p>Re: Shadylane</p>

<p>"LITR0710: Writers on Writing Seminar
LITR0110A: Fiction I
PHIL0990R: Rational Belief
SIGN0100: American Sign Language I, II "</p>

<p>If you can get into Fiction I, this sounds pretty do-able and if these are things you’re interested in, a pretty good first semester. </p>

<p>Re: hollyert
“For sure:
COLT 0610C - Banned Books
ECON 0110 - Intro to Econ
Either:
AMCV 1520 - Technology & Material Culture in America
or
ENGN 0090 - Management of Industrial/NonProfit Orgs
Plus an FYS:
COGS 0100E - Reading Science/Understanding Science
or
ANTH 0066J - So You Want to Change the World”</p>

<p>Take as many FYS’s as you can. I wish I could take them still!
Sounds manageable.</p>

<p>completely things I’m interested. I am taking advantage of the open curriculum! </p>

<p>now I just need to get my dad to stop asking me when I’m going to take any “real” classes…</p>

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<p>Maybe those are your version of “real” classes? What are you looking to study? It would be a terrible schedule for say, a premed student, but great for others…</p>

<p>If you’re interested in the humanities but not sure what, I recommend taking at least classes in three different departments you may want to concentrate in first semester.</p>

<p>Literary Arts, with a lot of theater and sign language. I’m a novelist (I’m the annoying girl with the book coming out this summer) so my goal is I can make a living off that. And hopefully I can work out enough sign language to interpret if that doesn’t work out.</p>

<p>Looks like a pretty good schedule to me then. Actually, since you’ve already come so far in your writing it may be worth submitting a sample for one of the higher level fiction courses (they’re by sample only all the time, whether you’ve taken LR11 or not).</p>

<p>Oh, interesting, I didn’t know they were always sample-only, thanks.</p>

<p>I’m thinking about it, but I also think I might like to start at level 1. I’ve never had a real writing class, so I’m sure there will be stuff I don’t know. And there will be plenty of time to take the higher level ones…</p>

<p>They’re not really systematic curricula. It’s not like you’ll be learning set things about learning-- you’ll be doing writing exercises and critiquing each other’s work and receiving feedback on your writing and analyzing some professional work as well. So quite honestly, if you’re writing is already better than you’re going to want to be in the higher level class to deal with a higher level of scrutiny, better writing around you, and more complex/challenging exercises.</p>

<p>You may find you’re not quite ready for that level, but let the sample speak for itself.</p>

<p>Thanks, I think I will submit something. At least I’ll have an idea of where I stand.</p>

<p>Um…how does submitting samples work? Is it something that happens over the add/drop period or do I need to do it before I register?</p>