I will be taking 19 units this fall that consists of the following classes:
British Literature (3 units, online, late start class)
American Government (3 units, online)
Financial Accounting (4 units)
Calculus 1 (5 units)
Physical Geology with lab (4 units)
Does this schedule seem too difficult or is it doable?
What are you majoring in?
It could get overwhelming if you’re not used to it, for sure. I can see most of those classes being pretty heavy on out of class work (lab write ups, problem sets, papers, etc). Are you a freshman? If so I certainly wouldn’t recommend 19 credits right away on top of the transition to school.
MITer94 I am a business major. CheerOutLoud, this is gonna be my 3rd semester in college, so i’m a sophomore.
At my school the maximum amount of credits you can take per semester is 18, so perhaps I am not the best to judge. However it does seem that you have quite a few courses that are mostly quantitative, so likely consistent homework. Generally labs also have homework of their own, which can take a good amount of time. It depends on your own strengths and weaknesses. If it were me, I would move one of those classes to next semester if I didn’t have to take them all immediately together, but it’s up to you
I took 19 last semester, and it wasn’t unbearable. Definitely not the most pleasant semester - but I ended it with 4 A’s and 1 B, so it is not undoable by any means (and I still had time for about 6 hrs/wk of Tae Kwon Do and 10hrs/wk for the concrete canoe team).
If there is a reason for taking 19 (delaying any of them will push back graduation, require summer classes, or put you out of sequence because of prereqs, etc) I would go ahead and stick with it. If there isn’t really a reason for 19 I’d suggest dropping a class (or making one of them pass/fail, if possible). While 19 is doable, it isn’t exactly fun (not anything I plan to repeat…), so only do it if you have a good reason.
Thanks for all the advice. If I drop one of these classes I’ll need to take them in winter which I don’t really want to and also I need to graduate by spring 2016, so I don’t really have a choice.
I’m kind of confused. You said you will graduate during spring of 2016, but you are a rising sophomore? Are you attending a 2 year institution?
yes i’m in a community college currently, so i’ll graduate from here in spring 16 and transfer to a 4 yr after that.
You’ll be fine. Completely doable.
'also I need to graduate by spring 2016,"
is there a reason why you want to graduate so fast
OP is at a community college. It normally takes two years to graduate from a community college, so this is not abnormally fast in any sense at all.
I think this seems perfectly doable.
My 2nd year I had 21 credits each semester
Fall -
Honors Calculus I
Honors General Physics I w/ lab
General Chemistry I w/ lab
Intro to Anthropology
Beginning Spanish I
Spring -
Honors Calculus II
Honors University Physics I w/ lab
Honors General Chemistry II w/ lab
General Cultural Anthropology
Beginning Spanish II
I finished the fall semester with a 4.0, but just barely missed the A in General Chemistry II during the spring semester. It was a heavier workload than most semesters, but it wasn’t all that bad aside from the few occasions where exams in calculus, physics, and chemistry ended up all in the same week.
NASA2014 I don’t want to graduate fast, I just want to graduate on time which means getting a bachelor degree in 4 years which means I need to get out of community college in 2 years.