<p>I sorta decided to try engineering after my freshman year in college. I'm now about to finish sophomore year but I have a problem, I haven't taken physics I yet. Should I take it in the summer? The problem is not having physics by next semester will mean I graduate in 6 years instead of 5, which is already pretty bad. But the physics course is in the 5 week session. Why they don't do it in the 8 week session like last summer I don't know. Also, my local community college is offering it in a 6 week session (although they're offering physics II in a 12 week session >_>). I got an A in calculus 2 and have a 3.7ish gpa (although thats mostly from easy classes like economics and history and gen eds) so yeah thats all the information I can give to you. Is taking physics in the summer a good idea?</p>
<p>If you’re someone that needs time to absorb information it might be a little on the tough side. I imagine you’ll either be getting lots of homework that you’ll have to do almost every night or you’ll get very little homework and be expected to learn all of it on your own.</p>
<p>If you think you can really buckle down and study the material nightly (or pay attention for the long lectures) then a summer session might be perfect.</p>
<p>Never mind this thread, another class I needed to graduate in 2012 is closed for the fall so I graduate in 2013 regardless of whether I take physics in the summer or not</p>
<p>But you should take it over the summer if you would like too. </p>
<p>My sister took Physics I over the summer and she did pretty well (B) (And she’s not the high GPA person. Also, She’s more of a Chemistry major than Physics/Calculus). She only had two exams and with condescended amount of material, so I think it was easier. </p>
<p>Right now, I’m taking the same professor but the exams are a lot harder because we get 3 exams and they cover more detail :/</p>
<p>I dont mean to hijack your thread but, which physics course is considered “harder”; physics mechanics and heat or physics light and optics? Im debating taking the light and optics over the summer at my local CC. Im boarderline A in physics mechanics right now. The light and optics is also in the 6 week term.</p>
<p>IMO is would say they’re pretty on-par with each other in terms of difficulty of the content, but personally I developed some skills in my first two physics classes that made thermo/optics a little easier (i.e. learned to use study guides/ books of problem sets).</p>
<p>I took physics I in 5weeks at a university last summer. It wasn’t impossible but it wasn’t a cakewalk either. Our professor broke tests down into 10 mini quizzes which covered about 2 days of material each. Having 2 labs a week was quite annoying though. As long as the professor gives you some kind of indication of whats going to be on the test you should do alright. I had to hire a private tutor for 1-2 times during the second and third week just because some of the material was difficult to absorb quickly. Overall it wasn’t too bad i got a B+ but studied like 4 hours a day outside of class. Funny thing was i was barely passing all the mini quizzes but aced the final because everything just seems to make logical sense at the end of physics. Anyways good luck and don’t drop the course if you start off bad, a lot of people did and did well at the end.</p>
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<p>So true. As I am studying my old tests for my final, I keep hitting myself because I missed problems that are easy for me now.</p>