<p>I’ll need at least 12 hours a semster to maintain full time status though, so I don’t think less than 4 classes is much of an option.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how many classes you take. It matters how many hours they are worth. The 5 classes you have listed sound like a perfectly reasonable and expected Freshman course load. Your 2nd and 3rd years are when they hit you with weed-out courses. The 1st year is just to see if you can manage your time.</p>
<p>Ok, the five classes I listed are classes I’m taking a my CC. To cut down the confusion, I suppose I’ll give an example of a suggested 5 course engineering semester. This is taken from the EE flowchart from LSU.</p>
<p>Fall semester of Sophomore year:</p>
<p>EE 2730 - Digital Logic
CSC 1253 - Intro CSC
MATH 2090 - DE & Linear Algebra
PHYS 2102 - Gen. Phys. II
EE 2120 - Circuits</p>
<p>Now let’s say I had to take a semster like that. If I’m just studying and haven’t committed to any clubs or EC’s yet, how heavy would the workload from these 5 classes be?</p>
<p>Does that circuits class have a lab component? I generally recommend not taking more than one lab course per semester regardless of mix (within graduation schedule constraints). That said, that schedule is going to require an average of 40-50 hours of time commitment (class+lab+hw/study) plus an epic finals week. Logically it is doable, though personally I would rather space out fundamental coursework.</p>
<p>@Ghost - You’re gonna get destroyed. You’re trying to fit liberal arts ambition into an engineering spectrum, which is not a good idea - unless you’re just really smart. You might handle it, but your GPA will likely get hit pretty bad. If you weren’t that 11-year old Indian kid taking Calc 3 and owning the rest of the class, consider pacing yourself…</p>
<p>Re: #23</p>
<p>How many of those courses have labs? Labs can add a considerable time commitment to the course, so five courses which include four with labs can be a very heavy workload, but five courses of which only one has a lab may not be super-heavy. However, since non-theory CS courses generally have programming assignments (equivalent to lab in terms of work) and lower division physics courses generally have lab, it looks like at least two of the courses have lab workload.</p>
<p>Lol art2c, I see what you’re saying.</p>
<p>[LSU</a> College of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.eng.lsu.edu/students/current/flowcharts]LSU”>http://www.eng.lsu.edu/students/current/flowcharts)</p>
<p>There are the flowcharts, I’m looking at the electrical engineering one. Based on what I see, the lab components ,for courses that require them, are taken separately. Also, it doesn’t seem like I’m required to take the primary course the same semester that I’m taking it’s lab component.</p>
<p>So, for that schedule I posted in my last post, it would seem that that I won’t have labs until the following semester.</p>
<p>From what I seen engineers with As that finishes in 6 years get get better jobs than those with Bs in 4 years</p>
<p>That’s an interesting. Do you have a reliable source.</p>