<p>Do you think I will be able to handle CHEM 3570 in the summer while working in lab 8 hours a day? This would be my day for whole month of June:</p>
<p>8-10am Class
10am - 6pm lab
6-7pm dinner
and then I guess I would have rest of night to study.</p>
<p>I heard Orgo in the summer, since it is condensed into a single month, requires full time devotion. Can I manage lab and orgo or am I setting myself up for a poor grade?</p>
<p>… bump</p>
<p>I don’t know how summer orgo goes…BUT I do know how working 8 hours a day in a lab during the summer goes and I know how semester-long orgo goes.
I think the most important question is which is the reason you’re staying at Cornell?
if you really need to take orgo, then try to find a lab position where you’re half-time or only come in a few days a week. or, if you need a job in order to pay to be here, you should look for something more low-key if you can.
if you are just trying to add orgo to an existing lab gig, just focus on the lab. working in a lab is not a real relaxing job. no matter what the field, you need to keep your level of concentration up to avoid mistakes, and in some cases you might be on your feet a lot. it’s very rewarding to be able to commit yourself full-time to lab work for a few months, and it wouldn’t be as fun if you were stressed about orgo as well.</p>
<p>also something to consider: I would imagine there are extra study/review sessions for orgo, or that is at least a possibility. would you be working at those times?</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. I am pretty sure I will drop orgo for the summer but I am still going to take sometime to mull it over.</p>
<p>The plus of dropping it would be 1- a more enjoyable summer and 2- i get to save all my stipend money from the internship</p>
<p>The downside, however, is this schedule: [Schedule</a> for Fall 2011](<a href=“http://www.schedulizer.com/67qc]Schedule”>http://www.schedulizer.com/67qc) for next fall. However, I guess I can always take biochem junior year</p>
<p>thanks again for input</p>
<p>Can you not take something simpler than organic chemistry in the summer? Introductory math courses (calculus, linear algebra, elementary statistics, etc. ) are usually a “sit down an hour or two a day after the class and work” kind of course, which might work well with your plan.</p>