Should I drop the meaningless class or continue forward?

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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I am having a great time at University (love my courses). I decided to take a course load of 17 credit hours this semester.</p>

<p>3 of the courses are gaining credit towards my degree, the fourth, Environmental Science (4 credit hours) is not doing anything for my degree (will not count as an elective, even - I have them filled). </p>

<p>I decided to take EnvScience because I am genuinely interested in it.</p>

<p>However, taking this course uses up an approximate amount of time of 13.5 hours per week, every week for me. </p>

<p>While I am enjoying the course and see it as an easy A, it has no effect on my degree requirements whether I take it or not.
With those 13.5 hours, I could better focus on things such as calculus and chemistry (and my personal health..heh... sleep/work).</p>

<p>I am really leaning towards dropping the course, taking the 'w' on my transcript (Pft..) and saint 13.5 hours a week to work towards other things. </p>

<p>In this situation, what are your opinions? Have you been in a situation like this before where you decided one way or the other? </p>

<p>Simply put, I think I got a head of myself thinking I'd be able to go 17 credit hours while studying some tough, yet, enjoyable calc/chem/programming material.</p>

<p>Thanks all.</p>

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<p>Could you take the course when you have more time to devote to it? Could you take the class P/F so that you can learn the material but don’t have to worry about your grade?</p>

<p>I personally feel that students should take courses they enjoy, but if you’re sacrificing doing well in your other classes for it, then it’s not worth it.</p>

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<p>Do you need to drop the course in order to put sufficient time into your core classes? Or are you just wishing for more free time, or needing to improve your time management strategies?</p>

<p>In order to get the most out of the college experience, it’s important to do more than just the minimum required to graduate. That doesn’t necessarily mean taking extra classes you are interested in, but that is certainly one valuable possibility. Assuming that your college doesn’t charge you more for 17 credit hours than it would for 13, it’s also an opportunity to get something extra from your college tuition “for free”.</p>

<p>The question you should ask yourself is: what do you plan to do with the extra time, if you drop the class? What else might you do to enrich your college experience, and would that be more or less valuable to you in the long run?</p>