<p>Ok so this spring I plan to take engineering physics, chemistry 2, statics online, intro to electrical science, and engineering stregth of materials which is 18 hours is this too hard or too much? Which class should I drop that's the hardest?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>IMHO no one can really answer your question but you. And if you have to ask the question, the answer is probably that it is too much.</p>
<p>Why do you want to take 18 hours any ways? Are you trying to catch up or trying to graduate early? Why no humanities class in there? Most colleges require about one humanities class a semester.</p>
<p>You’ll never know whether it is too much until way into the semester. You’ll know it is too much because your grades will be low, probably in each of the classes. Dropping a class probably won’t be an option as it will be past the drop date. You’ll be in damage control. Remember that one’s ability to go to their grad school of choice is highly dependent on your grades, same with getting a job at the larger engineering companies if that is the route you take. Why risk your GPA with 18 hours?</p>
<p>I think that will probably be too many classes, although I’m not familiar with the intensity of some of those classes. If it was me I would drop one of the last two.</p>
<p>Two Don’ts: </p>
<p>Don’t bump unless it has been 24 hours.</p>
<p>Don’t make your life unnecessarily painful by taking 18 hours, especially if it is all engineering courses.</p>
<p>In a best case scenario, assuming you are a straight A student who is used to crushing everyone else’s exam grades, it will still be a ****ty semester that would leave you burned out.</p>
<p>Don’t take statics and strength of materials at the same time. Statics will cover a lot of basic material that strength of materials will take for granted.</p>
<p>How many of the five courses have labs? Courses with labs can be significantly higher in workload than courses without labs.</p>
<p>Engineering physics, statics, and strength of materials (unless that’s an actual materials science course on dislocations) all seem like they’d be covering a lot of the same material. The second two would likely expect you’d have taken the first course.</p>
<p>I think it sounds like too much, especially without any non-Engineering course to offer a change of pace on homework. </p>
<p>At my engineering school, we usually took 5 courses, but they were 3 credit courses (no labs)… so only 15 credits total. At CO School of Mines where my DD started, 17 or 18 credits (with labs) is common. But it is grueling - students often get overwhelmed. If there were “do-overs” allowed in parenting, I’d go back and veto her difficult 19 credit semester.</p>