<p>What's easier in terms of workload, a writing seminar or intro to psych?</p>
<p>Psyc is just exams. You have to participate in psch experiments, but that takes a few hours a semester and pretty mindless. If you keep up with the reading the only real work you need to do is review for the exams. It is a pretty easy class and I believe with the professor this semester, exams are open book.</p>
<p>Writing seminars you have to write and keep up with the readings enough to participate in discussions. They tend to be very easy as well. My writing seminar had a “heavy” work load in that we had to write about a page for homework before every class. Everyone got an A though, so it’s not like it was remotely difficult.</p>
<p>Both classes are pretty easy and good options for a first semester freshman.</p>
<p>venkat what writing seminar did you take? not that it’s probably still offered, but…</p>
<p>also, if a professor doesn’t show up on penn course review, does that mean they’re new or something like that? (the writing seminar I am currently signed up for–I’m constantly changing though haha–is not on penn course review and neither is the prof)</p>
<p>My writing seminar no longer exists. The professor was a PhD student who won a teaching award this past year.</p>
<p>If the professor is not in PCR then chances are he is new. For writing seminars I would suggest having the best professor possible in an area you have some interest in. The writing seminar I took was one I had little interest in (about childhood), but because I didn’t get into my top choices I was eager to sign up for anything. The professor had great ratings online and was very good in real life, which made up for a shaky topic.</p>
<p>what about if a prof has had great ratings in PCR for several classes/semesters, but then suddenly in the spring the rating dropped? the class I’m most interested in (if anyone drops it) is film renaissance, and Wolmart had great ratings, except for his spring writing seminars–so if that does free up, I’m worried something happened and it won’t be as good as it used to be.
Right now I’m signed up for Styles of Atheism with Linker, and I suppose it looks interesting…</p>
<p>also while you’re here, another question: is 4 classes on tuesday and 5 on thursday too intense? I currently have it set up for 2 on monday, 4 tues, 3 wed (1 of which is a math rec), 5 thurs (1 is an econ rec–what do you do in econ recs?) and 1 on friday…how does this sound?</p>
<p>What are your classes?
Generally you’ll have to prepare for a math rec by doing homework and you have a 10 minute quiz.
For econ rec you just review what you went over in class that week and go over homework.
It looks like you are taking a language and that will require some prep each day, but unless it’s a brand new language it shouldn’t be too difficult.</p>
<p>this is my schedule:
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math 104 (I didn’t find calc difficult in high school), writing sem, jap 311 (I’m pretty sure this will be fine, maybe even a little review…hopefully), mgmt, and econ</p>
<p>It’s a perfectly fine schedule. On TR be sure to eat during your 1/2 hour break and good luck being at a decent level mentally for your writing seminar after having 3 other classes right before it.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice!
I swear, this schedule (well, excluding the monday/friday) is sooo much worse than my high school schedule! I only had 2 hours of class on wednesdays and 4 each on TR. haha oh well.</p>
<p>and I just asked this on facebook but might as well ask you too: do you know where I can get the econ/math 104 textbooks for cheaper than the bookstore?</p>
<p>online at places like amazon, half, and ebay. At Philly colleges there is Better Than The Bookstore (Penn’s is located at 39th and Spruce) where students sell books to other students. There’s no shipping and if the book is in awful condition you can try to get a refund (unlike online, though that has yet to be a problem for me).</p>
<p>I would do amazon but apparently the econ book is customized in some way…math, I’m not so sure (I’ll guess I can do amazon on that at least)</p>
<p>Your schedule is pretty killer, actually… try to get your MGMT100 recitation moved to a different day if that’s at all possible since then you’d have Fridays off!</p>
<p>If you want to take PSYC001, though, I’m in the 3:30-5PM section… that said, getting the writing seminar out of the way is something to be done as quickly as possible. Also, most of the teachers in the writing seminars are not professors but PhD students or lecturers. Doesn’t make a difference, but yeah, that is one reason why they aren’t on PCR.</p>
<p>For textbooks, I didn’t get an ECON textbook since half the people in my hall took ECON001. You’ll surely have someone in your hall taking ECON010, so you might be able to get away with not having a textbook as well. For MATH it’s almost a guarantee you’ll be able to use someone else’s</p>
<p>scribbler, the only tough class you have is japanese, but because your faecbook says you went to Exeter, I’ll go with a good guess that you’ll do just fine in all of your classes.</p>
<p>Econ 10’s book is custom made for Penn, but you could possibly get away without buying it.</p>
<p>haha thanks venkat. hopefully that’ll be the case.</p>
<p>am i doing something wrong or is the bookstore really selling a new stewart calculus (for 114/104/etc) book for 120 when amazon has it listed at 160? it doesnt seem possible</p>
<p>yeah I was looking at that too UHSdebater…I have no clue whatsoever.</p>