<p>wow really cardinal? why do you speculate so?</p>
<p>my guy I was dating was a philosophy major...he's also the editor of stanford's philosophy journal called the dualist.</p>
<p>I think I was a little wrong about what I said earlier...its like philosophy majors score higher on the biology section on the MCAT than even biology majors. sorry!</p>
<p>and yea, its statistically proven... I actually found out from my spanish teacher (I know..you would think...unreliable source, right?) but one of her sons is going to med school next year and her other daughter wants to go into medicine...so she researches a lot of this stuff and thats how i found out.</p>
<p>Heh, I wouldn't be too surprised. Philosophy majors wanting to go into medicine are probably more self-selecting than bio majors wanting to go into medicine. Plus, philosophy (hopefully) trains you how to think...
...but the problem isn't that I want to be a doctor -- I don't really. If I did, it'd be much simpler. The problem is that I don't know what I want to be, but I DO want to major in physics, and I DO want to keep my options open... which are starting to seem like mutually exclusive pursuits.</p>
<p>dude, being a physics major open up so many doors.</p>
<p>my friends at MIT who are course 8 (physics) or 6 (EECS) don't even go into careers that they were trained for. Instead, they are recruited by wall street or i-banks to do quantitative analysis.</p>
<p>so don't feel like you HAVE to get a PhD in Quantum ChromoDynamics if you decided to major in physics at an undergraduate level.</p>
<p>do you guys think you have to be gay to take "Gay Autobiography." It seems really interesting and I have never been exposed to that type of literature. Can I take it??</p>
<p>ek
so it seems like almost everyone's going for 19~20 units for the autumn quarter?!!</p>
<p>haha stany... i'm sure they're not allowed to prohibit non-gays from taking the class. but keep in mind that you'll be one of the very few straight people in the class (or so i would think?)</p>
<p>Well, when I was on college visits, I met a couple of very cool and very straight girls at UCLA who were really excited to take a similar class. And especially considering how prominent the issue of gay marriage is (and how dear to the heart of many liberals it is -- and how many liberals there are among CA college students!), I wouldn't be surprised if there was a decent amount of straight kids in the class. Plus, I'd bet the gay kids would be happy to have straight kids who were interested in and sympathetic to their issues....</p>
<p>[nice to hear about the physics, by the way... I was just kinda having a panic attack, but I bet it'll work out OK]</p>
<p>the limit for any quarter is 20 units so i think that we are really overburdening ourselves. If we are already taking the most classes we can take, than I guess we arent allowing ourselves any time to adjust at all.</p>
<p>I guess we'll just have to show up and talk to our advisors, see what they say about our schedules and how they fit into a four-year plan for graduating and majoring in something... I'm wondering if I should just do SLE, Math, and then that Current Research Topics and wait to do real physics until the beginning of the 50-series in Winter Quarter. 'Cause the problem is, if I do the recommended physics major track starting with 61 in the fall, by Spring quarter I'm gonna have to petition to take more than the allowed number of units (or not do Ph.67, which they recommend with Ph.65)! Which is a warning sign that something isn't coming out right... The waiting to know what I'm gonna do is frustrating, though.</p>
<p>dude stan, i'm totally going to take gay autobiography in the spring quarter!</p>
<p>which books have you read that has gay nuances in them?
I thought Picture of Dorian Gray and The Color Purple had such an obvious homosexual theme to it.</p>
<p>entropic girl, i know what you mean about having a game plan before the game actually starts. it's frustrating to be left in the dark sometimes.</p>
<p>How many introsem should we take in freshman year? 3? One per quarter? </p>
<p>If timing works out, I want to take SLE, Math 42, and Psych 1.</p>
<p>Am I the only one that has no clue on what classes I will take? Everyone seems to have their schedule planned out. I guess I'm going to have to start looking at the bulletin sometime soon...</p>
<p>staticsoliloquy i just bought the Picture of Dorian Gray because I heard of the homosexual theme to it. It just really interests me how something that was so wrong back then, can be secretely showing through these books. If you have time read "Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. I caught up on that too in that book but I dont think my teacher believed me. I hope this doesnt make me weird that im a straight guy who is really interested in this stuff.</p>
<p>not at all, straight guy/gals who are supportive and are friends with gay/lesbians are called stag(male) and hag(female).</p>
<p>stany, i'm totally with you on the whole "leaving time to adjust" thing:</p>
<p>i was just surfing around advising and stuff and i found this page (it's like...help for advisors):
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/uac/advisors/advisor_role.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/uac/advisors/advisor_role.html</a></p>
<p>i found this part interesting:
"How do I keep my students from overloading in the first quarter?
You can expect that many of your freshmen will think they should keep the same pace of coursework as they did in high school. College is SO different. A good rule of thumb is to treat college adjustment like a 5-unit time commitment. When you add five to the number of units of course work your student wants to take, the total should be <20units. Even if you think your student is very capable (and certainly they are), use the first quarter to get a lay of the land before loading up on units."</p>
<p>wow that is some really godo advice! Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>i heard that for the final in the gay autobiography class, you either write a paper evaluating a work or you get to write your OWN autobiography. Yayness!</p>
<p>If my schedule goes according to plan, I'll be doing 17 units (SLE=9, Math 51=5, Seminar=3).</p>
<p>An easy way to free up your schedule would be to replace an intro class with a seminar, which removes two units, and will result in much less work.</p>
<p>Yall need to wait to pick your classes. Do you even have a bulletin yet? Yall don't even know about Introsems yet do you? Stanford is great because they give you the freedom to preview classes before you decide to take them. I strongly recommend doing this your first quarter (I didn't and it bit me in the a**). You should also consult upperclass students (like me) first. Advisers often don't know who's the easiest/best teacher of a class. But some do offer good advice/support.</p>
<p>And even if you got a 5 on the AP Chem, you're not a techie major (or so you think) therefore you should take take a class you know you'll get an A in like Geology 1 ('rocks for jocks') instead. Chem is very hardcore at Stanford, esp. 31 it's what I call a weeder course that gets rid of the weak ones who think they're premed.</p>
<p>Welcome to stanford guys, home of the grade grubbers.</p>
<p>Chem 33 is not offered in the autumn (i know very sad)</p>
<p>I'm going to start reading the bulletin because I have no clue either. I don't even know about these "tracks." Are they just for the science majors?</p>
<p>I think 20 units sound pretty scary. I'm probably going to start off with 15 at the most. I figure the whole "getting used to living alone and making new friends" part of the fall quarter will take up at least a few units worth of time :)</p>
<p>I really gotta work on my time management skills though, because I tend to procrastinate A LOT---can't even help myself! Are any of you guys worried about this?</p>