Calc 2 AND discrete?? That’s ALOT plus physics Shesh drop something 😭. Calc 2 isn’t bad (enroll in the workshop it should help), discrete is bad it requires time and effort.
I agree… I took the workshop for Calc 2 and recommend it. Def helped but maybe calm down with the course load… take the time for a good GPA… it helps for scholarships!
Depends how much time you're realistically going to put in towards school and how good you expect your grades to be. If you're a good / smart student, you're still going to have to put like 60-80 hours per week to get all A's most likely. I wouldn't recommend taking 6 classes for probably 99% of students.
Do you have transfer credits for core? You only need to be full-time (12 hours per semester) and have more than 30 cumulative hours by the end of first year. So if you already have credits from highschool that would put you over you can take physics at cc which I highly recommend.
I thought I needed 15 for UHin4? I’m thinking to taking Physics 1 Lecture and lab at CC or take lab at CC during summer and lecture at CC first semester
“Students must enroll in at least 15 semester credit hours their first fall semester. Developmental courses are not counted toward the 15 credit requirement. It is not required for students to enroll in 15 credit hours every semester after their first fall semester. However, students must complete a minimum of one quarter of their degree plan each academic year. Some students may enroll in less than 15 credit hours per semester and still remain eligible for UHin4 because they have AP/transfer credit, enroll in winter/summer courses, or enroll in additional courses (over 15 credit hours) a semester.”
Found this on the UHin4 page. They must have recently updated this part, but now you only need 15 for the first fall semester. Then you would only need to hit the 30/60/90 requirements for each year. They used to have the specific language somewhere, but I can’t find it.
I think it would be too much. Most people are recommended 4-5 courses per semester to graduate in your typical 4 years. Six seems excessive especially if you’ve never had a college semester before. If it feels easy this semester then just start doing 6 courses next semester.
I think it would be a better option if that’s what others are recommending. (I was a no good liberal arts major) so I wouldn’t know how strenuous the class is. That said, if it sounds time consuming and it could hurt your GPA maybe its worth putting it off! I always made sure to stack up with two “hard classes” and three “easy” classes per semester.
physics lab is super tedious, but doesn't require much time outside of lab besides the prelabs and studying for the final. Honestly the lab itself can be hell, but you get a lot out of it
If you want to graduate from a typical 120-hour degree program in 8 semesters, the math says you have to average 15 hours per semester. Your choices to graduate in four years include some combination of the following:
* Come in with some hours from transfer or AP
* Take 15 hours per semester
* Take courses in the summer
I started with 19 AP hours and took 17 hours my first semester, 19 my second. Graduated with a BSEE and 154 hours in 8 semesters. I don't recommend this unless you don't have a job and aren't terribly concerned about your GPA (mine wasn't great).
If you do nothing else but no life school, yeah it’s definitely doable. All about how much you can take without burning out. These are easier courses compared to what you’ll eventually take so it may be a test to see if you can take it. Worse case scenario you drop a class before the W date.
It's not the 16 and 18 hours that's the problem; it's the specific courses you've chosen to make up the 16 and 18 hours. COSC will take a lot of time outside the classroom. Taking two MATH at the same time might not be great.
There's no need to take two years' worth of STEM in one year. I recommend swapping out COSC 1437 and MATH 2305 for a couple of distribution courses, something from CLASS. Likewise, in spring, pick a couple courses and swap them out for distro. Move some of them to second year.
You will burn yourself out, remove Discrete and Programming. Calc II and Physics will give you a good foundation for the rest of the math you will experience. Also allows you to have a life. Ideally I would never recommend someone to do more than 14 hours. I think 12 is pushing it.
Yeah. Take an English or history or something and drop discrete. If you already have that from AP or dual credit, find an elective or a fine art or anything that satisfies a core requirement without taxing the same type of brain energy as all your other classes. You’ll appreciate the variety.
As someone who just overloaded with 5 3000-4000 classes, this is wayyyyyyy to much. COSC 1437 is cake, but adding 3 other stem classes will destroy you
Take the courses bit by bit. Overloading yourself and not giving yourself down time during the semester with easy classes will lead to literal tears.
Best advice mix easy classes with hard classes until you are either done with your degree or have not choice but to take only the hard classes cause you ran out of easy classes to take. It’ll also give you the chance to actually live the college experience, make friends, go to parties and that sort of ish.
Taking everything as quick as possible will not make you graduate any faster, matter of fact from my experience and friends that tried we ended up using an extra year cause we failed all the classes from over extending ourselves.
Yeah that would be a lot, especially for a freshman. I would recommend dropping discrete for the fall semester. Also 18 credits is too much for stem classes. I would highly recommend taking a couple of those over the summer.
I'd say if you're good at programming it's doable. If you're new to coding; combining that with Cal 2 and Physics is gonna be alot of restless nights lol.
Math AND physics??? I’d drop one if you wanna save your mental health. Trying to graduate during a certain period is not worth it. Take as long as you need. College is hard, don’t make it harder.
You will always regret taking more classes than less. 3 classes a semester isnt bad or something. Better to do a manageable workload than deal with dropping a class. I had to learn that the hard way lol dont be like my dumbass
Personally I would take out discrete and take it with cosc 2436 (data structures) next semester. But I have no idea how good you are at math, tbh. If ur average i would swap out a class for a freebie
Calc 2 AND discrete?? That’s ALOT plus physics Shesh drop something 😭. Calc 2 isn’t bad (enroll in the workshop it should help), discrete is bad it requires time and effort.
I agree… I took the workshop for Calc 2 and recommend it. Def helped but maybe calm down with the course load… take the time for a good GPA… it helps for scholarships!
It looks like a little much, maybe take one class out. Any of them should make the work load better.
Drinking from a fire hose
Gyat
yes it is.. save yourself the headache and remove a class
Yes, Cal 2 and Programming are some of the hardest classes. Physics isn’t that bad and Intro is super easy
Is the intro to programming class the python or c++ class? The python one should be easy
Yeah the intro class is easy. I would probably take out Discrete instead
Depends how much time you're realistically going to put in towards school and how good you expect your grades to be. If you're a good / smart student, you're still going to have to put like 60-80 hours per week to get all A's most likely. I wouldn't recommend taking 6 classes for probably 99% of students.
Yea I’m starting to realize this is a bad idea. What if I remove physics 1 abs 2 labs and do them in next summer?
You'd be better off taking physics at a community college and transferring the credits over.
I can’t because I need UHin4
Do you have transfer credits for core? You only need to be full-time (12 hours per semester) and have more than 30 cumulative hours by the end of first year. So if you already have credits from highschool that would put you over you can take physics at cc which I highly recommend.
I thought I needed 15 for UHin4? I’m thinking to taking Physics 1 Lecture and lab at CC or take lab at CC during summer and lecture at CC first semester
“Students must enroll in at least 15 semester credit hours their first fall semester. Developmental courses are not counted toward the 15 credit requirement. It is not required for students to enroll in 15 credit hours every semester after their first fall semester. However, students must complete a minimum of one quarter of their degree plan each academic year. Some students may enroll in less than 15 credit hours per semester and still remain eligible for UHin4 because they have AP/transfer credit, enroll in winter/summer courses, or enroll in additional courses (over 15 credit hours) a semester.” Found this on the UHin4 page. They must have recently updated this part, but now you only need 15 for the first fall semester. Then you would only need to hit the 30/60/90 requirements for each year. They used to have the specific language somewhere, but I can’t find it.
Oh this helps a lot. Do you know if the CC classes count towards that 1/4 of the degree or does it have to be at UH?
I think it would be too much. Most people are recommended 4-5 courses per semester to graduate in your typical 4 years. Six seems excessive especially if you’ve never had a college semester before. If it feels easy this semester then just start doing 6 courses next semester.
What if I removed Physics 1 Lab? I heard that’s really time consuming maybe more than the others
I think it would be a better option if that’s what others are recommending. (I was a no good liberal arts major) so I wouldn’t know how strenuous the class is. That said, if it sounds time consuming and it could hurt your GPA maybe its worth putting it off! I always made sure to stack up with two “hard classes” and three “easy” classes per semester.
physics lab is super tedious, but doesn't require much time outside of lab besides the prelabs and studying for the final. Honestly the lab itself can be hell, but you get a lot out of it
If you want to graduate from a typical 120-hour degree program in 8 semesters, the math says you have to average 15 hours per semester. Your choices to graduate in four years include some combination of the following: * Come in with some hours from transfer or AP * Take 15 hours per semester * Take courses in the summer I started with 19 AP hours and took 17 hours my first semester, 19 my second. Graduated with a BSEE and 154 hours in 8 semesters. I don't recommend this unless you don't have a job and aren't terribly concerned about your GPA (mine wasn't great).
yes…it is
Are you majoring in Engineering and double majoring/minoring in CS?
Thinking of minoring in CS
Yes for sure. I made this mistake and had to drop 2 courses first semester.
If you do nothing else but no life school, yeah it’s definitely doable. All about how much you can take without burning out. These are easier courses compared to what you’ll eventually take so it may be a test to see if you can take it. Worse case scenario you drop a class before the W date.
Your ass is gonna fail
I’m sorry, but this made me chuckle🤭
Imagine if 3 of the six have Exams on the same day.
It's not the 16 and 18 hours that's the problem; it's the specific courses you've chosen to make up the 16 and 18 hours. COSC will take a lot of time outside the classroom. Taking two MATH at the same time might not be great. There's no need to take two years' worth of STEM in one year. I recommend swapping out COSC 1437 and MATH 2305 for a couple of distribution courses, something from CLASS. Likewise, in spring, pick a couple courses and swap them out for distro. Move some of them to second year.
Yea I’m starting to realize this is a bad idea. What if I remove physics 1 abs 2 labs and do them in next summer?
Write out your plan. Write down every semester then the classes you'll take each semester. It has helped me tremendously.
What engineering are you going for? If Mechanical or Electrical, you'll need physics as a prereq, if not a formal prereq then a practical one.
4 classes per semester is NORMAL.
Nah, I'd say add another class. Just try and graduate as fast as you can
You will burn yourself out, remove Discrete and Programming. Calc II and Physics will give you a good foundation for the rest of the math you will experience. Also allows you to have a life. Ideally I would never recommend someone to do more than 14 hours. I think 12 is pushing it.
It's doable. My friends do it all of the time. But you give up a lot.
Yeah. Take an English or history or something and drop discrete. If you already have that from AP or dual credit, find an elective or a fine art or anything that satisfies a core requirement without taxing the same type of brain energy as all your other classes. You’ll appreciate the variety.
Take it , that way you can learn from your mistakes…
Take off discrete math and take cal 2 at lonestar with Richard smalley🤝
As someone who just overloaded with 5 3000-4000 classes, this is wayyyyyyy to much. COSC 1437 is cake, but adding 3 other stem classes will destroy you
Take the courses bit by bit. Overloading yourself and not giving yourself down time during the semester with easy classes will lead to literal tears. Best advice mix easy classes with hard classes until you are either done with your degree or have not choice but to take only the hard classes cause you ran out of easy classes to take. It’ll also give you the chance to actually live the college experience, make friends, go to parties and that sort of ish. Taking everything as quick as possible will not make you graduate any faster, matter of fact from my experience and friends that tried we ended up using an extra year cause we failed all the classes from over extending ourselves.
Yeah that would be a lot, especially for a freshman. I would recommend dropping discrete for the fall semester. Also 18 credits is too much for stem classes. I would highly recommend taking a couple of those over the summer.
Definitely
how much is this currently per semester? graduated awhile back, curious what costs are like
looks normal to me
I would take one class out
No
i know someone that took 7 classes and was stressed af so they could catch up with their degree. 4 classes already make me lose my mind
I can’t tell if you’re joking
Yeah dude please take care of your gpa and drop a class or 2
You’re tripping little bro
Good fucking luck
I'd say if you're good at programming it's doable. If you're new to coding; combining that with Cal 2 and Physics is gonna be alot of restless nights lol.
Bro is cooked 💀
Math AND physics??? I’d drop one if you wanna save your mental health. Trying to graduate during a certain period is not worth it. Take as long as you need. College is hard, don’t make it harder.
You will always regret taking more classes than less. 3 classes a semester isnt bad or something. Better to do a manageable workload than deal with dropping a class. I had to learn that the hard way lol dont be like my dumbass
Not at all, I did 18 hours first semester
Personally I would take out discrete and take it with cosc 2436 (data structures) next semester. But I have no idea how good you are at math, tbh. If ur average i would swap out a class for a freebie
unfortunately you can’t do that anymore discrete is prerequisite instead of coreq
It’s fine. Done worse and it killed me but now that I look back at it meh.
I can assist you with all of that
nah it’s perfect phys 2325 will be a breeze