Scheduling?!

<p>Just thought I'd throw this out here, preferences and reasons are welcome!</p>

<p>How would you go about scheduling your classes?</p>

<ul>
<li>Everyday, mostly in the mornings so you'd have your afternoons/evenings free</li>
<li>If possible, find a way where you can have 1 or 2 days off from classes leaving time for study/jobs</li>
<li>Back to back classes (10 minutes apart usually)</li>
<li>Leave about half hour to an hour between classes</li>
<li>Spread out classes throughout the day</li>
</ul>

<p>etc etc.</p>

<p>For non-freshman, how were your schedules and did you like/dislike it? How'd you handle it?</p>

<p>Anything else about scheduling classes, feel free to throw it out here!</p>

<p>My classes never allowed me to have a full day off, although that would have been useful. I mainly organized my schedule around having enough time to go to work for 3-4 hours several times a week. I tried not to do any classes before 11am- it was too hard to wake up for them after freshman year. Other than that, my main consideration was how interesting that classes and professors sounded. I’d use internet ratings (a bit), and mostly talk to other people who had taken the class, or to a trusted professor in the department. I usually ended up with a pretty good schedule.</p>

<p>I prefer my classes back to back to back if possible and somewhat in the morning. I find it frees up time later because if I had an hour in between, I would waste it. Ten minutes is more than enough time to go from class to class. If you’re a morning person, schedule early. If you aren’t, stay away, you won’t wake up.</p>

<p>As a science major, its pretty hard for me to make a schedule with days off but most other majors can. My political science friend has class 2 days a week next semester.</p>

<p>Sounds good, thanks!</p>

<p>I’m definitely NOT a morning person, so I try to schedule all of my classes in the afternoon. I lived on campus freshman year, so it didn’t really bother me that I had classes that ran kind of late (my latest went until 10 pm). That’s what my first semester was like. My course plan forced my second semester schedule to start at 10 am almost every day, and that was pretty difficult for me. My goal is to have a semester with no Friday classes at some point during my years at SC 8-)</p>

<p>Class times are pretty well-balanced with the extracurriculars right?
Like club activities, jobs, etc etc.</p>

<p>And did you allow breaks during classes near lunch time? (If you had morning classes)
Early lunch, late lunch?</p>

<p>You have to learn to balance class and ECs on your own. If you plan on working, you should make sure the job can provide you hours outside of your class schedule. Jobs, classes and clubs obviously do not coordinate times with each other, so you will definitely run into some issues at some point.</p>

<p>I usually kept 12-1 free for lunch, but there were semesters where I had to have lunch before noon or after 2pm due to class.</p>

<p>I dislike MWF classes, not just for the obvious reason, but that they are usually only 50 minutes long, and that (imho) is too short for a decent lecture.</p>

<p>Time management of course! :)</p>

<p>@jbusc, you bring up a good point! Is that mostly for all classes? Or does it maybe depend on the professor and how well they can give a lecture in 50 min?</p>

<p>Early afternoon in blocks of 2-3 classes no more than 15 minutes apart from eachother does it for me. My brain is usually nice and warmed up during those times. :)</p>

<p>Are evening classes really that “bad” as everyone makes them sound? Walking back to dorms after classes, etc.</p>

<p>I personally prefer to have all of my classes over by 5. However, this can’t be completely avoided as orchestra goes from 7-10pm on Wednesdays. But yeah, back-to-back classes are the way to go. I generally like to start around 9 or 10am. Also, if you have a huge block of class during a meal period, make sure you have enough time to grab something to eat or bring food with you. And I generally try to get 1 or 2 days free if possible or make at least 1 or 2 days very light with classes.</p>

<p>Depends on where you live and what your sleeping/thinking habits are. Many people get burnt out by the end of the day (mostly morning people from what I’ve seen) and aren’t as sharp in the evening. Also, if you live on campus it should be fine, though some people that live far off campus might avoid it for any number of reasons.</p>

<p>I kind of like evening classes…but not too late.</p>

<p>The thing about MWF classes is that if it’s an interesting class with a good lecturer, 50 minutes is too short. If it’s not a very interesting class, then 3 days a week really starts to drag on you, even if the lectures are shorter :)</p>

<p>MWF classes also conflict with MW classes, since they can overlap the 1/2 hour increments.</p>

<p>I just prefer 2 day-a-week classes, to be honest :)</p>

<p>I’d prefer my classes end by 5 too akalboy. Good to free up the evening and have some time to do other stuff huh?</p>

<p>And thanks jbusc! Never thought of it like that!</p>