<p>I know i depends on the major, but how much d'you guys study? and d'you have time to hang out and stuff? </p>
<p>is double majoring in econ and psychology gonna be hard?</p>
<p>A lot if you want good grades/ are taking Japanese or Chinese and want passing grades.</p>
<p>Less if you don’t care.</p>
<p>And Econ and Psych wouldn’t be too hard, though you wouldn’t have a lot of electives left. Plan from freshman year fall.</p>
<p>I’m taking Japanese this quarter and its a lot of work but its not too difficult. I’m sure that’ll probably change soon though…</p>
<p>I’m only a freshman, but I find myself studying quite a bit; I’m doing coursework several hours per day (and moreso on the weekends) and I’m still pressed for time. ><</p>
<p>How time consuming are history, political science, literature, and area studies (specifically slavic studies)???</p>
<p>Sorry to keep adding onto this but how many hours/week are you engineers spending on schoolwork outsude of class on average?</p>
<p>My son, a freshman, tells me the workload is similar to what it was like in HS. He kinda wishes he had more, crazy as that sounds. By contrast, he complains that his best buddy, an engineering student, is studying all the time…every minute. So, it depends on your major, your course load, and I think, what you can handle. I worry that the workload will come crashing down on him, but so far, it’s not been an issue.</p>
<p>Engineering at NU is demanding like everywhere else but is probably more demanding than most other places <em>for freshmen</em>. </p>
<p>In most other schools, you may have one or couple computer science or intro to xyz engineering (for which you’d have to decide what your major would be) courses. Other than that, you take phy/chem/calculus courses mostly with other science majors/premeds. Such curriculum has not changed much in the last several decades. Here’s a sample; <a href=“http://eece.wustl.edu/ContentFiles/Degree/WUSTL_BSCHE_Table02_080501.pdf[/url]”>http://eece.wustl.edu/ContentFiles/Degree/WUSTL_BSCHE_Table02_080501.pdf</a>. Note how “MATLAB” lasts just one semseter and it’s not clear whether you’d use it again after the first semester? </p>
<p>At NU, you start with an innovative curriculum with lots of engineering, even without declaring your major. In engineering analysis (EA), there’d be case studies and maybe a final project for each sequence. EA integrates materials from computer programming, mechanics, physics, linear algebra and you apply them to your cases/assignments. Because you’ll get to integrate and apply certain skills/knowledge over and over for 4 quarters, some of those skills get so reinforced that they become your second nature. You’ll probably become pretty proficient in programming in MATLAB by the end of fourth quarter even without being a computer sci/engineering major. You also have Engineering Design & Communications (EDC); your team would be spending two quarters learning communications/presentation skills and designing a product for an industry client. Teams would deliver presentations in front of clients and classmates at the end. For many, this curriculum forces them to step out of their comfort zones. But you will get more out of such curriculum than the traditional one.</p>
<p>I should add on that NU is easier than my HS was. Or so I thought- others from my HS thought it was WAY harder. But then, I’m statistically at the top of NU’s class (I fell back to NU, basically), and they reached TO NU.</p>
<p>So basically, it varies based on how smart you are, in effect. </p>
<p>Yes, this sounds arrogant, but it’s just stating facts.</p>
<p>The workload’s not bad. It’s just the readings you have for some of the classes that are annoying. More than the hw, staying on top of the reading is sort of the downer for me. <em>shrugs</em> Btw, I’m an Econ major. Double majoring in Econ & Psych wouldn’t be hard, but both require you do lots of reading every night. I love my time at NU so far, though. However, I am beginning to loathe the quarter system…!</p>
<p>you can take overloads, 5 or 6 classes is not that bad</p>
<p>the trick is to absorb as much as possible during lectures, because in my classes (econ&math) exams very rarely require knowledge outside of them. i never do the readings really and have good grades.</p>
<p>How would the workload be for legal studies (pre-law track) and econ double major?</p>
<p>I would actually argue the opposite of drizzl- as long as you do the readings lecture is frequently irrelevant and redundant. Though that depends on the class.</p>
<p>As for legal studies, Im on econ major, and I was thinking about doing the legal studies double because I had already accomplished a decent number of the requirements without even trying, just based on distros and econ major requirements. I decided against it because I have no intent in going to law school and I didnt really want to do the required research segment. I dont imagine it would be very time consuming. </p>
<p>As for a general statement, workload really depends on a couple of things.</p>
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<li>Your goals – aspiring premeds, investment bankers, and rhodes scholars are going to be aiming for high numbered GPA targets. I personally am choosing a career track that wont care about my GPA so I devote more time to extracurriculars I enjoy.
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<li>Smarts/college study ability- Some people just “get” studying or their major, and will put in substantially less work than you have to for a certain class for the same grade. </li>
<li>Major/classes-- surprisingly, the least important of the 3 from my opinion. Save a couple, the hard engineerings for example, most majors dont differ much in workload. But those of you who choose to take Modern Materials and Society (highly recommended) for your science requirement probably are going to do better than those that opted to take orgo 1 instead.</li>
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<p>Yeah it really all depends upon the type of classes, that’s why when you overload you should be smart about it and not take like 3 lab science classes one quarter with 3 other classes haha, my bad</p>
<p>I took an overload one semester. Luckily that fifth class was only Pass/Fail.</p>
<p>You may not get the most accurate answers here. Since the ones who studies all the time will probably not post on CC.</p>
<p>^ I beg to differ. I think my answer was fairly accurate. You do get a lot of readings in most of the classes, and I think they play a rather crucial role in your success at NU. Studying all the time does not equate with good grades, may I remind you.</p>
<p>Yea if you don’t keep up with the readings, you’re pretty much screwed at the end when you have to write a long paper incorporating stuff from them.</p>
<p>To do well on the quarter system, break down assignments into smaller tasks and work on them everyday. I loved highlighting because when I later needed to find a certain topic I could scan the important parts. Do not try to read an entire book near the end of the course. Cramming never works.</p>