<p>Under 'Days' my schedule says MWR. Does R stand for Thursday? Also, for my organic chemistry lab, the location says Boston dept. What does that mean? My lab is for 6 hours is that a normal time period?</p>
<p>R=Thursday, yes</p>
<p>Labs are generally scheduled for 3 hours for most of the major science courses. Some courses the labs will rarely take up the entire time, others will occasionally keep you late. For whatever reason, labs often show up as being scheduled for time frames that don’t quite line up with when they’re actually held, for reasons I’ve never quite understood - six hours is a lot longer than anything else I’ve seen, but I’d have to assume its a scheduling oddity (usually, the end time is what is inaccurate). That said, I took Organic Chemistry I and II, and the labs usually took the better part of three hours.</p>
<p>I took the lab courses in Hurtig Hall, and to my knowledge that’s where they’re always held for organic chemistry. If I remember correctly, they usually send out an email before labs start explaining where to go for your first lab, during which you’re shown where to go for all labs afterwards. They don’t give an exact location because, for whatever reason, they seem to hold all of the organic chemistry labs either at once, or in two or three time slots with many sections running in different rooms simultaneously. Why they can’t formally enter these sections into the system with their corresponding room number (like some other labs do - I did take a Physics lab where they similarly told everyone to meet in one room before distributing everyone).</p>
<p>Actually, having RAed a (CS) lab my last semester, its quite likely the reason they don’t formalize sections until the first section is because they don’t actually know what RAs are going to be available until the last minute.</p>