<p>I'm not sure about the procedures to switch out of a freshman seminar, although if nobody around here knows, I'll stop by the ARC sometime this week and ask.</p>
<p>It isn't too much to do an extracurricular and an advising seminar. The seminar really shouldn't take too much of your time -- maybe 2 or 3 hours a week. I worked 8 hours a week freshman year and still did an extracurricular. :)</p>
<p>I hope so... :)
I guess I'm just put off by the fact that the seminars supposedly take 6 hours out of one's week? And the performing groups supposedly do, too... So, if I did both, I would, in essence, be taking 60 units of credit, according to MIT. </p>
<p>Wow, I can rephrase that sentence into something more coherent...</p>
<p>Both = 60 hours per week? Too much for a wee freshman?</p>
<p>Oh, just because you get 6 units for an advising seminar doesn't mean that it will necessarily take 6 hours out of your week.</p>
<p>Units are usually a reasonably good estimate, but seminars (advising or otherwise) almost always give less than their unit load per week. It's kind of like free credit. ;)</p>
<p>And performing arts ensembles only take up as much time as they have rehearsal, plus a few performances per term. It looks like concert band and concert choir have 4-5 hours of practice every week.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>So I signed up for an advising seminar even though I didn't know what time it would be at or what time field hockey practices would be. It turned out that we had games almost every Thursday- which was when my seminar was. In the beginning of the semester, we thought this might be a big problem, so my advisor looked into the options. He emailed whatever administrator is in charge of freshman advising and she gave him this solution:</p>
<p>If the conflict became a huge problem- like if I never showed up or something, I could drop the seminar from my official schedule (just like you would drop any other class), and my seminar advisor would continue to advise me as a traditional advisor.</p>
<p>Fortunately, everything worked out. I only missed a couple of sessions and didn't have to drop the seminar, which was nice. As Mollie said, seminars are like free credit. I got 6 credits to spend 2 hours per week playing with LEGOs. =D</p>