[Genryu]

First thing, I'm french, so the education doesn't work the same here. I was in a cursus roughly equivalent to an undergraduate degree. We had maybe 12~14h a week of lectures, and the rest was exercices, practice and projects.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Genryu
First thing, I'm french, so the education doesn't work the same here. I was in a cursus roughly equivalent to an undergraduate degree. We had maybe 12~14h a week of lectures, and the rest was exercices, practice and projects.

That sounds about the same as I had, actually.  Pain in the arse, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess.

EDIT; should add, actually, that last year I had less lectures than usual because our honour project takes up a large chunk of the final mark allocation - about a third I believe.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I'm not back in uni until late september. Looking forward to going back.
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[Knight Templar]

KT's Schedule through the first half of Summer:

Monday-Thursday

7:30(am)-9:30(am) US History 17.2

8 hours But 7:30 am really blows.

KT's Schedule through the second half of Summer and into the fall Semester:

Monday

7-10pm Russian (or) Chinese Beggining Language and Comprehension

3 hours But till' 10pm kind of sucks. I'm still going to High School as well though, so I guess it evens out.

[Stealth]

monday - thursday, 10:00 - 2:30.  taking four classes. government, economics, math, sociology.  then i work five days a week in the evenings.

[CP5670]

I am quite happy with my schedule.

MWF 9:00-9:50: intro to microeconomics (gives a required social science core credit)
MWF 12:00-12:50: advanced calculus 2 (confusing name for real analysis with several variables)
MWF 1:00-1:50: partial differential equations (a "for scientists and engineers" class, but it still gives a higher level credit)
MWF 2:00-2:50: number theory (this should be easy as hell but will give a high level credit)
MWF 3:00-3:50: general physical mechanics (will probably take the exam for this and replace it with something else, but it's what I have listed right now)
W 10:00-10:50: economics discussion (apparently they give quizzes during these sessions, so you unfortunately have to attend)
F 10:00-10:50: mechanics discussion

That's right, I only have to go three days a week, and since I am commuting from home, I can just stay home for the other days.
Most of the classes are also in one long bunch, so I don't have to find something to do for short periods between them either.

The Intel thing has been useful here, as the UMCP people are going a bit out of their way to keep me happy. They are letting me take a number of final exams for various classes to get the credits and grades without actually doing the courses, so I'm going to be busy with that for most of the summer. The only bad thing is that I really wanted to enter the complex analysis class as that's where my interest and strength is (so any work would be fun), but there is some inane restriction that you can't do a graduate class until satisfying a certain number of the BS core requirements.

This will be my first semester in college. It should be an easy introduction.

[beatspete]

Don't know what my timetable will be like for this year, though going by last year's 2nd year timetable, lectures in the morning, tutorials and labs in the afternoon.
I do Aerospace engineering, so I end up with more lectures and less essays/assignments to do than other people... which is good and bad.

[Stryke 9]

Ha-ha! Non-college-dropouts SUCK!

Can I get a "hell yeah"?

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Rictor
Setekh, I'm might as well ask since I'm sure everyone is wondering the same thing, what exactly is your area of study? From your courses, it looks like you're going in to become some sort of Religious Software Engineer Teacher, which uh...is the first time I've heard of such a profession

Or are some of those electives, and thats why I'm confused?

The only elective is Biblical studies, which I took for interest. Turns out it was my best subject... well, a bit of prior knowledge never hurt anyone. Anyway, the rest of my subjects are core subjects - education, software, maths.

As for long term, magatsu, I'm aiming to be a high school maths and computing teacher - probably more of the latter, but the first is a good feather in the cap for employment prospects. High schools over here in Australia can't get enough male maths teachers. I'm very hot property.

[Styxx]

Specially considering you can pick up stealthed ves... Er, I mean, yeah.

[Kosh]

Monday through Thursday:

8:40 AM-12:10 PM: Chinese
1 PM-2 PM: Technical writing
2 PM-4 PM: Arguement



And that's just my summer term schedule.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Styxx
Specially considering you can pick up stealthed ves... Er, I mean, yeah.

Haven't heard an AWACS joke for a long, long time.

[Rampage]

Here's my Johns Hopkins schedule (listed in time order):

Monday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50
4. Chemical Engineering Today - 2:00 to 2:50
5. Introduction to Chemical and Biological Processes Lecture - 3:00 to 4:20

Tuesday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50

Wednesday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50
4. Introduction to Chemical and Biological Processes Lecture - 3:00 to 4:20
5. General Physics I Lab - 6:00 to 8:50

Thursday
1. Calculus III Group - 10:30 to 11:20
2. Discreet Mathematics Group - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Group - 1:00 - 1:50

Friday
I'm FREE, but then I have work-study.


This is my first semester in college.  I replaced most of my frosh introduction courses with Advanced Placement credits.  I'm going to be looking forward to this experience!

Rampage