<p>I was wondering if taking BILD, Chem6, Math10, and DOC (Marshall writing GE sequence) is too much for freshman year. Someone advised me that I should drop either bio or chem because having two sciences and a math might be too hard (especially if I have med school in mind). I'm planning to take organic chemistry and physics sophomore year, so I don't really want to add bio to that. Any advice/tips?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I honestly say take bio as soon as you can, you might be able to do it… BILD 1 with Patrick Gentry is really easy… he tells you what is gonna be on the exams and Math 10 is not that hard… if worse comes to worse just drop whatever is hardest</p>
<p>It doesn’t sound like too much. I would stick with that schedule and try it out for a couple weeks. If you feel like it’s too much work after then, drop a class. It’s much easier to take too many classes and drop one than take less class and realize that you should have taken more.</p>
<p>What class would you advise to drop? Someone else said to drop DOC if anything, but it seems like almost everyone completes their college’s GE writing sequence freshman year.</p>
<p>^It depends. I think you will know what class you should drop if you decide to do so. It will depend on how you personally are doing in them. I remember my freshmen year people suggested that I take 3 classes so I was considering dropping MATH 10B. I’m glad I didn’t because MATH 10B was my easiest class. I would have been slapping myself in the face if I did that. I just highly advise you to not drop classes until you get here and get a feel of how they will be for you.</p>
<p>I think it’s not too bad. If your schedule looks really good (like all the classes are bunched together around the same time, then you’ll find yourself having lots of free time). 4 classes are definitely doable for most people. For DOC, it’s true that most people finish the series in their first year but there are still a lot of people taking DOC during their second year which is absolutely fine. I don’t recommend dropping DOC1 because people tend to take DOC in order (like 1 in fall, 2 in winter, and 3 in spring) Basically, you DOC1 is only being offered in fall so if you drop it, you’ll have to take it later next year.</p>
<p>And then it’s completely cool taking DOC2 in winter first but I personally think taking DOC1 first makes you get used to the format of the course because the professor knows that all students are new to DOC.</p>
<p>I took BILD1 before and it wasn’t that bad. You can also take BILD3 in fall, pretty much have to memorize stuff. MATH10 should be pretty easy. CHEM6 can be the hardest one. It depends though if you’re a science person or not.</p>
<p>I’d say add a fifth lit/history/g.e. class after the fall quarter starts, so that if you do decide on dropping chem/phys/bio, you’ll still have four classes.</p>
<p>Low div lit/history (maybe even MUS classes if you’re into that) classes are really easy peesy–they don’t take up much time (although this seems to be only with people who felt confident in their high school english classes; those that weren’t told me they struggled with lower div lit/history but they still got good results anyhow).</p>
<p>DOC is fairly simple too. Knowing what your TA wants/likes in the assignments is definitely something that’ll make it easier (even if you don’t feel what you’re writing is “correct” or how you’d really want to write the assignment).</p>
<p>But, if you only wanted phys, chem, bild, and doc I would say drop bild and take it the following quarter. DOC is a 3-part series and you can’t take DOC2 if you didn’t take DOC1 (nor can you take DOC3 if you didn’t take DOC2).</p>