<p>To current students: </p>
<p>What is the craziest schedule you've ever had?
Whether it was 5 or more courses or 4 intensive courses?</p>
<p>(Just curious about the extent of workloads ppl survive through)</p>
<p>All times are per-week.</p>
<p>1.0 Writing 20 (2.5 hrs class, 2.5 hrs tutoring)
1.0 Chemistry 26S (50 min discussion, 10 hrs lab)
1.0 Chinese 2 (5 hrs class)
1.0 Biology 25L (2.5 hrs class, 2 hrs lab, 2 hrs discussion)
1.0 Public Policy 116 (2.5 hrs class, 1 hr discussion)
0.5 Education 172T (50 min class, 3 hrs tutoring)</p>
<p>Also 3 hrs/week in HCIP (Clinical extracurricular).</p>
<p>BDM, was this your freshman 1st semester? </p>
<p>Did you manage to do well that semester?</p>
<p>Freshman second semester. And yes, that was the best semester I ever had.</p>
<p>One of my friends at Duke has a friend who took Math 32 & Math 103 (had credit for 32..) during the same semester! However, since he's a math whiz, he did very well in both classes. But two maths.. that's something!</p>
<p>TO bluedevilmike: That sounds like an impossible schedule.. 5.5 courses as a freshman.</p>
<p>friend took:</p>
<p>ece 27
math 107
japanese 2
writing 20
chem 22</p>
<p>and almost died... i'd say my hardest was this last one:</p>
<p>math 108 - diffeq
ece 53 - electromagnetics
ece 152 - computer architecture
econ 105 - intermediate micro</p>
<p>it was hard because the classes were all exam based, it was during basketball season, and my random ECs</p>
<p>craziest schedule was for someone I knew who had no classes mondays, wednesdays or fridays, but was in class from 8.30 am to 9.45 pm on Tuesdays and thursdays- he was doing 5.5 credits though</p>
<p>Last semester I had</p>
<p>Bio 25
Chem 152
Art History 168
and Bio 48</p>
<p>Not hard, right? I mean, lots of lab time, but Bio 48 and ARH 168...not bad. Well let's throw on 12 hours of dance a week. That left me a schedule that was subsequently entirely red blocks from 8:30-4 or 5. 5 days a week.</p>
<p>Now in the fall I'm looking at Chem 165/167L (PChem...I've heard horror stories), Physics 54L, Art History 144B, Art History 186, and Chem 151 TAing. Leaving me the same thing basically, minus the 8:30s, and class a little later. I'm looking at 10:00-5:30 Monday-Friday. </p>
<p>Probably not the worst ever workload-wise, but when does one eat lunch?</p>
<p>(I probably shouldn't complain because, well, I'm not an engineer)</p>
<p>freshman spring semester (ridiculously demanding)
Bio118 - genetics/molecular biology
chem152 - organic chemistry 2
math 103 - intermediate calculus
chem26 - freshman independent research
polysci178 - U.S. constitutional law
physedu15b - weight training 2</p>
<p>Does teaching schedule count here? :D</p>
<p>First semester sophomore year:
ARABIC 1 - Elementary Arabic
COMPSCI 100E - Program Design and Analysis II
ECE 27L - Fundamentals of ECE w/ Dr. G (woo!)
ECE 52L - Intro to digital systems
MATH 108 - Differential equations</p>
<p>which will be outdone by my coming semester, </p>
<p>First semester junior year:
PHYS 211 - Quantum Mechanics I
PHYS 143L - Intro to Modern Physics (prereq for PHYS211)
ECE 51L - Microelectronic devices & circuits
PHYS 182 - Electrodynamics</p>
<p>There are reasons for what I'm doing schedule-wise, but that doesn't mean it won't be crazy.</p>
<p>Hehe...my schedules are pretty easy compared to these...but sweet because I wake up late all the time</p>
<p>This coming semester I'm taking two Econ and two MMS, and EOS 11...
No class Fridays, no class earlier than 2:50, once class meets once a week, one class (EOS) is really easy</p>
<p>Nice...I think its so ridiculous people have the above classes.</p>
<p>I don't understand how people can even double up science classes</p>
<p>To Joe Meyerowitz: How in the world do you take 3 physics classes in one semester even 2 seems horrifying</p>
<p>Anyway I thought my 1st semester freshman schedule was pretty demanding
but I guess it's almost nth compared to schedules mentioned here</p>
<p>Also I heard that you can take 5 courses per semester starting the 2nd semester of freshman year, but I didn't know anybody actually took 5 courses or more as a freshman-- Taking 5 classes sound like a wonderful opportunity b/c I was worried about too many courses I want to take during Freshman year and too little space, but I doubt I could manage 5 as a freshman unless about 2 courses are ultra easy-waste classes</p>
<p>My senior year was, erm, "fun":
[ul]
[<em>]Fall
[list]
[li]Electrical Engineering 63L<br>[/li][</em>]Electrical Engineering 181
[<em>]Mechanical Engineering 141L
[</em>]Mechanical Engineering 235
[<em>]Naval Science 145L
[/ul]
[li]Spring[/li][ul]
[li]Electrical Engineering 141[/li][</em>]Electrical Engineering 170L<br>
[<em>]Electrical Engineering 189L
[</em>]Naval Science 146L
[<em>]Physical Education 60 (Volleyball)
[</em>]Physical Education 72 (Social Dance)
[/ul]
[/list]</p>
<p>Wow I never knew college students were this intense.. I'm so proud to be going to Duke! Although it really shouldn't matter, I wish that Duke's ranking goes up 1 in US News Ranking 2008 (there was a thread about this somewhere) and sb found somewhere that Duke tied for 7th place w/ Penn but I don't know if that will be true in US News as well.</p>
<p>Can you guys help me out with my schedule under thread "Fall 2007 Schedule"
Seeing some intense schedules, the one i mention in the other thread seem in -comparable, but still if you guys can give a word of thought (im not sure if there actually is a phrase - word of thought) that'll be nice</p>
<p>Please don't hate me for asking, but when do the 2008 US news rankings come out?</p>
<p>Yeah, let us hope that Duke overtakes Penn and moves up to #6 at least!</p>
<p>my second semester jr yr sched was pretty sweet - i had class mon-thurs at 10:05 and again at 1:15. that's it. all were great classes - a bit more reading and writing than normal, but who can complain with that schedule. </p>
<p>time-wise, i've never had a truly bad schedule, except for that one semester where i had 3 back-to-back-to-back classes on friday which was a mistake. in terms of classes/difficulty, while there may be one let down per semester, i've been very lucky usually.</p>