<p>Hey guys, </p>
<p>I have session 105 and I have a few questions concerning orientation.</p>
<p>Is there anything I should do or have planned ahead of time so that I can setup a good schedule for myself? (Im looking to take Math 31A, Chem 20A, and a GE in order to transfer from Biology to Bioengineering).</p>
<p>Also, is there anyway to know which teachers are open so that I can just Bruinwalk them?</p>
<p>And finally, should I bring my laptop? I just bought it and my mom is against me bringing it. But is it needed and will it help me in any way? (Ex: Googling availiable teachers)?</p>
<p>As always, thanks in advance for your help!</p>
<p>You don’t HAVE to do anything ahead of time, but you can plan your schedule. On myucla you can literally plan your schedule. Use BruinWalk to look up all your professors. Plan on getting your 3 classes, but don’t plan on getting your first choice on the timings. Also, you might not get the EXACT G.E you want. Another thing to note is that Engineer Majors only have 5 G.E req’s (4 really for bioeng since life science 2 covers the science g.e) so take a g.e that would cover bio eng if you are switching. </p>
<p>You should read up on how to switch online. You will need a 3.5 MINIMUM, in the 2 science/engineering related and 2 math courses you take. You won’t be able to switch majors into engineering until you have completed two quarters at UCLA, so by 3rd quarter. And lastly, don’t count on it. Engineering Majors have a hard hard hard time keeping above a 3.5+ @ UCLA and they’re the ones who got into Engineering.</p>
<p>You don’t need a laptop. It helps if you’re going to be planning a lot of your schedule during orientation. It is helpful but not necessary. You can’t use your laptop to sign up for classes. You HAVE to be in your NSA’s room, and if you aren’t you’ll be locked from signing up. Only people in your orientation sesh can sign up for classes during 9-10 of the second day. There are two laptops in your NSA’s room to sign up and 10 people in a group. If all goes well, you finish in about 20-30 minutes.</p>
<p>You can look for your classes on the UCLA registrar site. There’s also a place to look up only GE’s or fiat luxes or other special courses, and it’ll only show the ones that are still open.</p>
<p>Most of the people I knew brought laptops, but it’s optional as YouSeeLuckyAce said. It helps if you’re going to be researching your classes there (you’ll have a lot of hours to do so) since there’s only a few computers available for anyone to use.</p>
<p>Pretty much what YouSeeLuckyAce said, bringing a laptop would be helpful, but you don’t absolutely need it.
I think Bioengineering is an impacted major at UCLA and is highly competitive, so you’ll need very very good grades to transfer into it. Just a FYI (:</p>
<p>I wouldn’t bring the laptop. It’s just one extra thing you’ll have to lug around.</p>