<p>Hello folks.</p>
<p>I have been foraging this forum for a while now, but was too lazy to register until now. Now that I have an account it'll be fun to contribute at long last!</p>
<p>Here's my problem: I am a strong student from a very competetive high school, and want to take more classes than time allows for. I also don't want to burn out. This probably sounds familiar.</p>
<p>Here are the details:
I am majoring in chemical engineering, but may very well transfer to pure chem or even something else.</p>
<p>I made a spreadsheet in Visio and swapped around classes to create a full free semester so I can study abroad, and never take more than three difficult classes at a time. (I took 9 AP tests in high school.)</p>
<p>Schedule:
Chem 4A (required of all chem frosh)
Math 53 (this is rumored to be difficult)
Engineering 7 (no clue what this is. It's a prereq for 141 and 150B though)
A breadth elective like Italian 1, which I will own.</p>
<p>Problem (revisited):
I want to take linguistics, philosophy, psych, English, and maybe more phys/math just to be more well-rounded. I also want to continue learning both Spanish and Italian, but this simply isn't a possibility. To my astonishment, there isn't even a Spanish club where I could at least speak the language. What do I do???</p>
<p>This problem almost kept me from enrolling at Berkeley. Now it's facing me head on; I have to send my frosh advisor my core class list tomorrow. Can you guys please comment? Major thanks in advance!!!</p>
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I made a spreadsheet in Visio and swapped around classes to create a full free semester so I can study abroad, and never take more than three difficult classes at a time. (I took 9 AP tests in high school.)
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nice to see crazy planning-ahead skills.
if your confidence in your abilities translates as expected at the college level, then your schedule looks good. E7 is an intro programming class. you are given weekly homework and labs and it is all in MATLAB. it will be a lot of work, definitely more than chem and math, though it is manageable.
if you are anxious to take language classes, go ahead. and start early. however, keep in mind that they are FIVE units and thus require much time and energy. if you have a background and can speak italian, then kudos to you and your scheduling foresight. as for being able to take all the classes you find interesting, i'd say, yes there are so so many things that i find interesting, but you ultimately will have to choose which ones are most appealing to you in the long run. also, which classes have the most potential to contributing to the skill-set that you have that relates to your major or your career path? language? psych? english? it depends on the person, but good luck with choosing!</p>
<p>Also, people already know how many slots are left in a given class; how come when I logged onto telebears it said that only after CalSO (6/20/08!) will I find out when I can begin signing up!? Am I disadvantaged?
Thank you, and sorry about the verbosity.</p>
<p>Search</a> the Online Schedule of Classes: Fall</p>
<p>just search for a class, and click on "Click here for current enrollment information and course restrictions". it will list up-to-the-minute enrollment information. if thing haven't changed, you will have your phase I appointment at calso. the same applies for all incoming freshman, so you are not disadvantaged in any way, except perhaps to those who have their calso's earlier than 6/20.</p>