<p>Just a few questions:</p>
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<li>Do a lot of peopel actually participate in the summer sessions or do they take the summer off?</li>
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<p>-Also, are summer session courses harder because they are done in a shortened amount of time?</p>
<p>-I am going to be a MCB major, will i still be able to graduate in 4 years w/o taking any summer sessions?</p>
<p>Thx alot guys</p>
<p>bump.........</p>
<p>Quite a few people take courses in the summer but I'm guessing this number decreases as students get older and get internships during the summer before their junior and senior years.</p>
<p>Summer sessions for difficult courses like organic chemistry, biology, physics can be more difficult because you are learning an entire semester's worth of material in a couple of weeks. But it can be easier if this is your only class. It's up to your personal preference - do you learn things easier in shorter periods or do you need more time to absorb material?</p>
<p>It is possible to do MCB in 4 years w/o taking summer.</p>
<p>Plenty of people take summer sessions. A bunch of my upperclassmen friends took session A (at the beginning of the summer) and then started working or went to an internship. I just finished my freshmen year and I didn't feel like going to those internship/job fairs, so I decided on summer school.</p>
<p>I'm taking Math 54 and History of Art R1B; it's a fairly easy load. The pace is very fast for both classes, but I think it is generally easier as long as you don't take more than two classes.</p>
<p>Berkeley comes at you in spurts- you'll have long lulls of "hey let's have fun!" punctuated by one week where all you can think of is, "GOTTA CRAM GOTTA CRAM!"</p>
<p>Over the summer, the cool down time is more than enough to excel. Over the summer, you gotta toughen up.</p>
<p>I know. I gotta toughen up.</p>