<p>^Well, I wouldn't be going for two years anyway; it's not like I've already been accepted and am just now deciding not to go because of a room. Right now I'm in community college and living at home. I won't be transferring until I get my AA, it's just a matter of where.</p>
<p>I keep hearing about writing papers in college. In general how frequently are big papers assigned? And are they more common in engineering related classes like math and science or in humanities/English classes?</p>
<p>Hi I had a question,</p>
<p>In your first two years of college, I know its mostly General Ed classes? I also know that it varies by school, but what kind of classes are typically required? Are Art classes, public speaking, classes like those required? What about if you only took 3 years of a foreign language, will you have to take one more in college?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>About the greek life, are there frats that are like party at night, study during the day? like in the middle kinda</p>
<p>yes, there are FRATERNITIES that are full of brothers that both party and get good grades</p>
<p>Alot of fraternities and sororities maintain extremely high GPAs. It helps that just to be in a greek organization you usually have to have a good or very good GPA. If you go through rush, you can usually tell which frats (diesel, I know some places hate the use of 'frat' but I'm in one and I don't care, so I'm gonna use it =) ) party all the time and which actually care about their grades. Also, try looking at the greek life website or school website and you can usually find each chapter's average GPA. That should help a bit.</p>
<p>Awesome because it sounds like the greek life might be for me then.</p>
<p>if all you want out of a fraternity is to party, and i guess get good grades, you won't make it through pledging</p>
<p>Azhir: For gen-ed classes, it both depends on what school you go to and what program you're doing. At my school, if you're doing a science, then you don't need a foreign language at all. Public speaking is required for only certain majors (like management, communications, and a few others). You'd have to check on the schools you're interested in(most universities have curriculum guides/checksheets to look through on their websites). </p>
<p>For writing papers, science classes write papers geared towards lab findings, and occasional research papers. Humanities classes vary a lot. One of my anthro classes had no papers, another had three, so it really depends. Most of your english classes are going to be writing-intensive, so expect that.</p>
<p>Ok I have 2 questions. How did most of you guys find the social transition from highschool to college? As in where you more social in college than hs and did you find it easier to make friends, go out etc? Or was it the opposite, were you less outgoing in college and did you dislike the social scene?? And, is the freshman 15 really something I should worry about?</p>
<p>I don't think I should have a problem with pledging (i hope) because I'm very easy to get along with.</p>
<p>that's not what i was talking about...you're gonna have to do "stuff" that if you just want to party you're not going to do and either end up dropping or getting black balled</p>
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<p>if you want something bad enough, there isn't anything you won't do...</p>
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<p>What kind of stuff we talking about? I know pledgees(?) have to clean up after parties and stuff.</p>
<p>if you pledge you'll find out.
only thing i'll say is part of the "stuff" we had to do involved 15 shots of Jagermeister</p>
<p>"if you want something bad enough, there isn't anything you won't do..."</p>
<p>ooooh sounds like fun/torture</p>
<p>I have a question...</p>
<p>I'm doing some last minute shuffling with my schedule and I'm concerned about wether it's realistic. In order for me to get the classes I really want and am interested in, I would have to be taking 3 classes back to back from 9-2 on MW and just one course on TTH.</p>
<p>Some potential problems, of course, would be having tests for these classes all on the same day back to back... am I stretching it? If so, should I keep the current schedule I have (2 classes a day) even though one of them is really, REALLY boring? </p>
<p>I don't have time management issues since I've always been pretty responsible but this is more like STRESS management issues, haha. If anyone cold tell me of a similar experience or have any practical advice, I'd really appreciate it. :)</p>
<p>yeah it's not fun.
you'll pretty much hate your pledge semester and probably block out most of it from your memory. </p>
<p>i guess this doesn't apply to all fraternities, but any popular ones will most likely be something similar. i guess the ones that have trouble recruiting and end up with a small pledge(any fraternity that says they're small so they can have a tighter brotherhood is feeding you a line of BS) class figure they have to be kinda nice to their pledges so they don't drop.</p>
<p>Woman.Of.Troy: 3 classes back-to-back is actually really normal. I actually try to get them close together like that so my afternoons/mornings are more in blocks than random fragments. Everyday this semester I have 3 classes back-to-back, and I did about the same last semester, and I think it works really well. I only had one instance where I had two exams on the same day in two classes, but if you just study ahead of time, it all works out. </p>
<p>I know people who have had four, even five classes in a row some days, and although they deal with stress, it can be managed if you just stay on track. </p>
<p>If you're doing it during lunch time, throw a granola bar or fruit or something in your bag for between classes, then just eat later in the day. I actually like that cause it's not as busy at the vendors/cafeteria if I eat later.</p>
<p>christalena2- Thank you SOOO much for the input. Since I'm a transfer student, I didn't want to be presumptuous and assume that taking 3 classes back to back at USC would be the same as it was in community college. I actually prefer blocks too and getting everything out of the way early. :)</p>
<p><em>note to self: avoid small fraternities</em></p>