<p>To those who skipped Chem 6ABC but didn’t take Ochem in fall freshmen year, what did you take instead for your first year? Physics ABC or no science at all?</p>
<p>There are so many choices for you to take. I took BILD3 (bio lower div) in fall. You don’t really have to take a science class in your first quarter if you don’t feel like taking it. You can always try to complete other GE’s first, like history, literature, etc.</p>
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<p>I did the Phage Genomics Research program in the bio department my first year, which was sort of like my science sequence since I got AP credit for chem, bio, and most of physics. For the rest of my classes my first year, I finished up the math sequence (took 20C), took the writing sequence for my college, chem lab, and did all of my GEs.</p>
<p>You can pretty much take whatever you want. I did all my pre-req courses and GEs my first year, but I know people who started with o-chem their first year or did upper division biology classes. You could also do physics your first year, and get it out of the way before o-chem so you don’t have to take both at the same time (but that’s coming from someone who hates physics, so take that with a grain of salt).</p>
<p>Is taking Ternansky for CHEM140A in freshman fall quarter like GPA suicide? I can’t decide if I should take CHEM140 (w/ Ternansky or Yang), PHYS1A (I’d be on the waitlist), or BICD 100…</p>
<p>I’m doing two programs of concentration for Warren so I’m a little limited in GE choices, because of prerequisites and stuff. So I’m going to take 2 or 3 GEs, but I definitely also want to take one of my major-required science classes.</p>
<p>Ugh this is really hard to decide, especially with so many waitlists</p>
<p>^PHYS 1A and BICD 100 are much easier than CHEM 140A if that helps you decide. And I applied to TA for BICD 100 so I could be your TA! But now I jinxed it and they probably won’t select me. :(</p>
<p>Yeah I think I’m going to sign up on the wait list for PHYS 1A and register for the BICD section that still has space. Also going to register for HILD 10A, PSYC 179 and Warren writing. If I do get in PHYS though, I don’t know what I’ll keep/drop…</p>
<p>Do you think 17-18 units is too much for this quarter?</p>
<p>That’d be really cool if you were my TA! (: how’d you jinx it though…?</p>
<p>Oh yeah random question about the discussions for BICD: I see multiple times and dates for discussions under the lecture; the section ID is only next to the lecture. So if I’m understanding the UCSD enrollment tutorial correctly, that means we can attend any one of the discussion times that we want - we don’t have to register for a particular time, so if we happen to be busy one week at the time of the discussion we usually attend, then we can just go to a different discussion that week. Is that right?</p>
<p>@king: hey I applied to be a bicd 100 TA too! good luck to the both of us and maybe we can be TA-mates : D </p>
<p>@archaic: that depends on the professor. When I took BICD, every student enrolled using the lecture ID. However, the professor announced afterwards in class that she was making us enroll into discussion sections via a different website. That is not very common practice; that was the only time that has ever happened. Usually section aren’t mandatory but professor makes them mandatory or add incentives for students to go. Just go to any section you like if they aren’t mandatory.</p>
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<p>I don’t know. I just did by talking about it. 
If so then no worries because I’m already signed up for a back up class and I’d be fine with either.</p>
<p>As far as discussion sections go, the biology department doesn’t have you sign up for your sections when you register for your classes like other departments do. The professor will let you know how the discussion sections work either by email, TED (UCSD’s class website thing), or during the first day of class. Sometimes they are mandatory and sometimes they aren’t. The professor will let you know. I haven’t had this professor before so I don’t know. And even then it’s possible that professors can change their policies between quarters.</p>
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<p>Yeah that would be cool. :)</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Just curious, why do you guys want to be TAs?</p>
<p>@KingsElite: oh right… When you first said you jinxed it, I was thinking of the game we played in elementary school where two people say the same thing at the same time and then one person gets a penalty. Forgot about the other definitions ><</p>
<p>^Pinch poke you owe me a Coke. ;)</p>
<p>Personally I want to be a TA because I’m planning to become a secondary school biology teacher so I think it would be a good experience helping people with biology. Especially with Genetics which I think is one of the critically fundamental parts of biology that some people fail to really grasp. It just sounds like fun.</p>
<p>Haha xD</p>
<p>Ohh okay. That’s pretty cool! Are you also getting upper-division elective credit for it (I think it’s 195?)</p>
<p>^Yeah I am. If I don’t get the TA position then I’ll be taking Ecosystems and Global Change instead. Either way is fine. It’s my last quarter at UCSD before I graduate and I just want to graduate without something dumb happening. :)</p>
Can we submit ap bio labs for credit? Where would we turn them in and what class would they count for?
@chemistrylove What are you referring to?