<p>does anyone know about these two programs, I got an email about it and was wondering if anyone knew the details beside what they mention.
any advice would be awesome thanks!</p>
<p>if you have the opportunity to do summer bridge do it! you get priority registration which is to kill for.</p>
<p>i thought registration already happened for current students at ucsd though??</p>
<p>You only get priority registration if you do OASIS which is a two hour workshop twice a week per class you do it for. And priority registration means, with the exception of the upcoming fall quarter, you get to register before everyone, even seniors.</p>
<p>do you have to take any extra classes? i really want to graduate on time (although with budget cuts i doubt it) so im trying to figure all this out.
thanks alot for everyones help so far, im guessing OASIS is worth doing then?</p>
<p>Well, some people don’t think it’s worth it, especially if they have a lot of AP units already. Each OASIS workshop is four hours a week, every week. You can’t skip or you get dropped from the program and lose your priority registration.</p>
<p>yeah that was what i was afraid of =[
I have to work during the school year too so I dont want to be overwhelmed. I heard alot of good things about oasis but I wasnt sure what the “catch” was.
I guess ill have to weigh the pros and cons of the program</p>
<p>OASIS is especially helpful if you don’t trust yourself to be structured in studying/keeping up with class material. there are plenty of students who leave things until the last minute and find themselves trying to cram in three chapters the night before the midterm. however, the resources at OASIS are not better or more special than anything a non-OASIS student could get. each class has TAs and office hours and you’ll likely have several friends in the class to study with. </p>
<p>(i personally didn’t like the OASIS setup of large-group learning. i prefer to learn at my own pace and seek help for the specific topics i have trouble with. but to each his/her own.)</p>
<p>thanks astrina for the insight, im guessing you tried it out in the beginning but it wasnt really for you?
does the priority registration really make much a difference and worth the 4 hours a week of mandatory workshops?</p>
<p>I was never in OASIS. I was a long-time TA for the chem department and entertained working for OASIS, but didn’t like the way it was run. </p>
<p>Priority registration is always a good thing! However, depending on what your major is, it may not make much of a difference. Example: I was a chemistry major. Beyond the ochem series (which have so many spots open that it’s never a problem getting a spot somewhere), the remainder of your major classes are largely specific to chemistry majors, so there’s not that much competition. I didn’t have priority registration, but I was always able to get into my classes junior/senior year, including specific lab sections so I could be with my friends.</p>
<p>thanks alot for all your help I really appreciate it!
Im a transfer student and biochem major (under the chem department) so i wasnt sure if the priority registration is a big deal at ucsd. Ill take what you said and think about it then, cause if i have to work 20 hours a week, full time student (thats interested in some research), 4 extra hours of workshop seems like extra weight.</p>
<p>As someone who attended a few quarters of Oasis workshops (and knows quite a few people who attend it/tutor there) I can tell you it’s a pretty good program. The tutors I have had are extremely competent and explain the material in an understandable manner. However, the main reason Oasis helps is it allows you to ask a bunch of questions in a classroom setting and practice a lot of problems that resemble the ones on the midterm. There are probably 20 people max in each workshop so you will get lots of individual attention, and priority registration is a definite plus. However, I wasn’t in Summer bridge and therefore not obligated to meet all its requirements. I just signed up for workshops because they helped me study better.</p>
<p>Do you have to be in OASIS to attend the workshops? or are the workshops also free to all students. Im thinking of atleast applying with the code I got and see what happens. Im just worried the mandatory worshop will take time out of other things i like to pursue at ucsd</p>
<p>If you want to take a workshop you have to commit to it, you can’t just go whenever you want. However, if your schedule doesn’t permit you to attend the whole workshop the leaders are usually pretty lenient. For example, I only went to half of my Monday workshop last quarter because I had class. Also, you can email them and tell them if there’s a good reason you can’t make it to other random workshops. I know people who take 5 classes, have a job and still go to workshop. However, only certain kinds of people can handle that. I say sign up and drop it if you feel like it’s too much.</p>