Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Haven't you noticed? Almost everyone here is very, very smart. (And before you accuse me of arrogance, note that I include myself in the "almost".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I have no doubt that he is very smart. Still, 6 courses is 150% the normal course load. Even if the classes are easy, the sheer amount of time required seems overwhelming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 150% the course load? A full undergraduate course load here is five courses normally, and for engineering students here it's typical to have six or seven courses a semester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Same here. I'm taking five, as noted, and I've been judged by some of my triple-major friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Yeah, it should be doable, with a bit of a stretch. I've always thought of five as a normal load, and I did six one year myself. Two of those were humanities courses, which meant that everything was fine until term papers were due, and then it was awful for a while. Now that I think about it, I did a few all-nighters that year. Yeesh, those are horrible. Staying up when you're really tired is not that bad if you can just react to things, but when you're sitting in front of a blank page and have to create stuff, it's excruciating. Try not to do those if you can avoid it. But if you can't, they are doable. Just really not fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Also, different schools are organized in different ways. The standard undergraduate program in the US is four courses at a time, but there exist programs with expected courseloads that are greater or fewer; presumably the course expectations scale with the courseload, so that if 3 courses count as full time they meet for more time and assign more work, whereas if 6 courses is expected, the limits to what they can assign are lower, and the limits to how long they can meet must be lower if they want students to be able to find 6 classes without time conflicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 The standard course load at my university is usually four classes, but most science-based majors take five. I do have six courses, but humanities classes are absurdly easy to BS in, and all the seniors in my major tell me engineering communications is really easy. I wanted to get all of my humanities and core math classes out of the way before I hit the more advanced chemical engineering courses junior and senior year, such as physical chemistry. I also have to take a diversity class at some point but I have no idea what that means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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