<p>Can you make it in twenty minutes from the Bio Sci building to the West Duke building?</p>
<p>I have no concept of where things are on campus yet?</p>
<p>It's challenging, but a definate possibility UNLESS it's at a time when bus traffic is really really terrible. What time are the classes, and what are they exactly.</p>
<p>(I did gross chem to carr for my seminar last semester every wednesday...but I talked to my professor the first day of class and he understood...that comes with having 2 different campuses)</p>
<p>yeah, having 8:30s on west... more specifically, science drive, is rough as a freshman, because you either have to catch the bus that goes to science drive or take the one that just goes to main west and then walk to science drive. I found myself waking up right at 8, throwing clothes on, and then going to the bus stop in the hopes of catching the 8:08 C-3 (science drive bus, for those who don't know). More often than not I would miss it and end up taking a regular bus to west. Though it's really not a bad walk from main west to the biological sciences building... going to gross chem is a little more of a pain.</p>
<p>So i've been hearing a lot of complaining about these 8:30 mandatory small classes, especially the foreign languages. Actually i've gotten a lot of negative feedback about some languages in general, especially spanish. Thing is, in high school i loved going to my 8 person AP spanish class everyday. Yeah we'd get drilled a lot, but the teacher was cool about it so it really wasn't a high pressure situation. What is it about these classes that makes them so stressful? If a prof asks you a question and you totally blow it do they really get down on you or something? Isnt foreign language about learning from your mistakes?</p>
<p>In my language class, the professor encouraged participation but never made it stressful or high-pressure. </p>
<p>I prefer early classes so I can get classes out of the way and do work in the afternoon, but if you don't normally wake up early, I don't recommend it. Many of the professors take attendance, or there are in-class quizzes and homeworks due. Either way, you are expected to be there.</p>
<p>I think the problem with spanish, at least for me, has been that the intermediate levels (below 100) feel like a lot of busy work. Attendance is mandatory, certain homeworks are graded, there are tests, blah, blah, blah. Still, I would really like to become fluent in spanish. I'm looking forward to the 100-level classes because I have heard great things about them, like spanish 105 for oral communication.</p>