<p>I'm going to orientation in a couple of days (session 104), and just wanted to ask a question about scheduling (don't have any older siblings to get advice from :().</p>
<p>From looking at the basic ChemEng program, I've gathered that the classes I'm likely to take first quarter are: Math 31B, Chem 20A and Eng Comp 3.</p>
<p>Math and Chem are both MWF classes. Trying to decide if I should take a MonWed English class or a TuesthuRs English class. It would be nice having whole days off if I picked a MW one, but is three classes in one day too much? Thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Also - Scerri or Gelbart for Chem? Bruinwalk didn't have that much on Gelbart.</p>
<p>theres lectures and discussions. personally i think u should get ur daily dose of school =) u could do it but u need to make sure there are no conflicts. there may be conflicts between the Final examination dates, lecture classes, and discussion classes. luckily u have a planner to plan this all out.</p>
<p>maybe theres another lecture for one of the two classes at a different time? generally non GE classes have many lecture options as far as i can tell.</p>
<p>"and another: how about from de neve to royce hall in 15 mins? i know it's closer than public policy but how much i don't know"</p>
<p>yea i think it takes normally a little less than 15 minutes to get from de neve to royce. for me, i takes 20 minutes to get to public policy. either i'm a slower walker or you guys just walk really fast. </p>
<p>i've timed this one: from sproul hall to the bruin bear or from sproul hall to anderson (through north campus) are both roughly 6-7 minutes, depending on how fast you walk.</p>
<p>from my experience, most classes seem to end on-time. i mean, these profs have been doing the same lectures for years, they wrote the syllabus and they know their material well. i would say occassionally classes run late or profs run out of time to complete the day's material. very rarely did the class end early.</p>
<p>It's quite difficult to schedule classes when taking clusters - at least it seems so. I'm assuming the lecture that's being referred to is the Biotech 71a Cluster? I think it's gonna be tough to go that distance in 10 minutes. I had the same problem, so I just opted to avoid that (De Neve to Bunche/Franz) and take two final exams back to back on a Monday instead. =/</p>
<p>yea the clusters made it for difficult for me to schedule classes too... but that's just 2 quarters. the third quarter is the seminar, which is 3 hours on only one day, so that should make scheduling easier. </p>
<p>"how about when class begins? are there some stragglers who arrive late to class? like 1-2 min?"</p>
<p>it varies. most profs like to start on time. i've heard one prof would just talk about sports for 5 minutes to wait for stragglers. i had another one who played latin music for a few minutes before class started (granted, it was a colonial latin america history class). but i've had some profs who don't care if u come in late or not and just start lecturing. usually, this happens in big lecture halls where the prof probably won't even notice you in the back arriving late.</p>