Who wants to help with my college scheduling?

[GoldenBear]

Here goes my career at a community college in hopes of transferring to Berkeley as an ECON major..

So if you have any experience here, any words of wisdom would be appreciated!

 

[HOWITIS]

since its a community college and your taking intro classes i'd say take 5 clases in fall and spring. taking 4 really puts you in a bind. what if you really hate a class and want to drop. what if your doing badly and want to drop. if you dropped one class you wouldn't even be a fulltime student.


also, do universities even accept those intro clases? when i transfered from a community college after one year to the University of Kentucky, they would not accept any intro classes as valid credit hours. they said they were high school level.

and for scheduling i'd say NO!!! clases before 10 or 11am. Its college you need your sleep . and try and take em all on tuesday and thursday, then you'll have M W F off. monday is a bad day for a college student.

 

[prodigy]

Here's what you need to know about scheduling in college:

1- NO, NO, NO 8 A.M. classes!!! Let me repeat that, NO 8 o'clock A.M. classes.

2- Oh and if you can get Friday off, go for it by all means.

 

[GoldenBear]

Thanks for the good advice, very useful..I guess I'll have to check on the Intro classes there.

And I think 4 classes will be fine, I'm going to try to stay committed not to drop any of them, although I fear Calc II will hurt my GPA..but it's a required class for transferring.

Plus one more thing..would you know how a community college schedule works? I only have the summer catalog here, and I see classes that are a bit over a month long and some are two months, and are about 2 and a half hours for each day, four days a week. How did your fall schedule look in terms of days and times? If I were to take 4 classes in a semester, what would you expect my schedule to be like?

 

[HOWITIS]

most classes last 50 min. they are either m w f or T R. there may be some labs that are only one day.

my college schedual this year(i mean semester) was

MWF 11am PS 101
MWF 12am SPI 101
MWF 1pm ENG LIT 1
MWF 2pm STA 201
TR HIS 105 9:30am (to early i might add)
F HIS 105 lab 10am

all these clases where 50min
some tueday-thursday classes last more than 50min

 

[DanJ]

For the love of god get no classes before noon at the earliest. I find it is still hard to get up at 10:30 or so for my 11:30.

Also try to not get any Friday classes, or at least any after 2PM.

 

[Mday]

OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOO

8AM CLASSES IS THE DEBBIL!!!!!!!!111

THE ASS RAPING DEBBIL!!!!!

 

[jonnyjack]

GoldenBear: you're planning to go to chabot right? i don't have chabot info but since i go to ohlone i can give you a little info from there that should be the same...go to http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us/ and click on class schedule to check out how they offer classes...people i know at chabot says its pretty much the same format..

each unit usually equals 1 college hour (50min), ex. 3 unit class meets MWF for 50 min a day (150min/wk), while a 3 unit class meeting TTh is 1hour and 15 min a day (also 150min/wk)...

when you get a catalog, it will tell you whether a class transfers to CSU or UC or neither...just take general ed first like math and english and then talk to a counselor at your community college, they can tell you more info about transferring to Berkeley or anywhere you want to go...