<p>It's my first schedule. Someone told me to break it up so I have school only on 2-3 days, while I used the other days to study furiously and the likes.</p>
<p>Is this true, that for whatever classes I can, I'll stack them on the same day?</p>
<p>You can do that if you’d like–it really depends on your preferences. Personally, it can be extremely tiring to go to class all day long, and equally tiring (although in a different way) to sit inside for an entire day doing homework. I prefer to split up my class schedule just for the sake of variety. That way I never have to do one single activity for an entire day.</p>
<p>Do all majors typically study all day? (No free days?)</p>
<p>The CalSO counselors generally didn’t recommend doing that.</p>
<p>I would recommend spreading them out more. While having 1 free day is nice and can be helpful for studying/partying, I wouldn’t go more than that. Also if you have one free day Friday is the best option.</p>
<p>Free days are cool. I haven’t had friday classes since my first semester at Cal. :)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend that for an incoming freshman, unless if you have a very light load. To do that, you often have to cram many courses and sections in a single day, you don’t know yet if you have handle that. It’s the kind of thing you should do once you have experience at Berkeley and know what type of student you are.</p>
<p>Fridays are the only day that are good for free days.
In fall 08, I sort of had a free friday. All I had was Bio 1A lecture (which was webcasted) and my French 3 class from 11-12.</p>
<p>In my experience, completely free Fridays are hard to schedule.</p>
<p>Well, my one experience with it last semester was pretty bad so I won’t advise it. Grumpster is right. To do something like this, you should have 13 units (or less) of classes with at most one class with a lab section. Last semester, I had terrible Tuesdays and Thursdays with nonstop classes from 8AM to 3:30PM with only an hour of break from 10-11AM. 4 1/2 hours of straight lectures on top of an 8AM really killed my brain. Having a free Friday was nice, but it was not worth going through hell two times a week, not mention the fact that by 2PM I was unable to attention to my last lecture of the day and learn from it.</p>
<p>I think I might have Fridays free too…are you guys science majors with those extra lab sections or something? I’m an undecided major in L&S and pretty much have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons off…until I pick my last class. :/</p>
<p>Well, my current major is bioengineering and I was taking Chem 3A with the lab section and Physics 7A which has a lab last semester. Labs are really time consuming and classes with labs cannot be considered by unit count but rather by number of hours you spend in class. I spend about 20 hours or so a week in lectures, discussions, and labs.</p>
<p>this spring i had two lab classes and was still able to have friday pretty much completely off (all i had was an 8am bio 1b lecture, which is webcasted). it was really nice to have all of friday to do errands, homework or whatever.</p>
<p>I’ve had Fridays free both of my semesters at Berkeley (although I was unable to pull the same thing off with summer session) and had an hour-long class on Wednesday second semester, while having none at all on Wednesdays first semester. All this despite having a heavy courseload. That said, I had class all day TuThs, basically, and my attendance plummeted. Did this hurt me? Not really, but your mileage may vary. Some classes you have to go to, others you don’t.</p>
<p>As for how much you’ll study, it depends on how smart you are, how motivated you are, and how hard the class is. If you’re majoring in maths/hard sciences/engineering, you’ll be studying a lot, unless you’re utterly brilliant, or don’t care. If you’re majoring in something else, you have a lot more options on how to structure your time.</p>