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Old 10-07-2010 at 06:29 AM   #1
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6 courses in one semester
I just completely blew my physics midterm and I plan to drop it and take it in the summer instead. How hard is it to take 6 courses in a semester when you're a Life Sci student?

next sem courses:
Bio 1a03
chem 1aa3
math 1lt3
physics 1ls3
psych 1xx3
econ 1b03

is it bearable?
Old 10-07-2010 at 06:43 AM   #2
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I take 5-6 courses every term, so it shouldnt be too bad
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Well, Econ is barely a course and if Psych 1xx3 was anything like 1x03, you should be good. I'm taking 6 now. Not too bad so far, just gotta stay on top of everything (especially if you've got a bunch of "hard" courses)
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Old 10-07-2010 at 10:13 AM   #4
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Looks like a pretty easy term tbh.
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Old 10-07-2010 at 10:20 AM   #5
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Well, Econ is barely a course and if Psych 1xx3 was anything like 1x03, you should be good. I'm taking 6 now. Not too bad so far, just gotta stay on top of everything (especially if you've got a bunch of "hard" courses)
You don't even have to show up for that class - all her lectures are posted online and all she does in lecture is read off them.
Just make sure you read the lecture notes and be prepared for the quizes and assignments(there are like 10 of each, but only your best 5 are counted)

Also depending on what factulty you are in, you may need permission to over load. I know being in Soc Sci I needed permission to take 6 courses in 1 semester.
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I just completely blew my physics midterm and I plan to drop it and take it in the summer instead. How hard is it to take 6 courses in a semester when you're a Life Sci student?

next sem courses:
Bio 1a03
chem 1aa3
math 1lt3
physics 1ls3
psych 1xx3
econ 1b03

is it bearable?
it will be a pain in the ass but yea i has the nearly exact same semester last year (without the math). you should be fine if you did well in psych 1x03, since you only have 1 live lecture per week (really interesting) and econ is a bird course as long as you keep up with the lectures she puts online. you really don't need to attend class' since the prof just reads right off the lecture notes for econ. Bio and chem will anally hard but other than that as long as you keep up with the work load you shouldn't have to much of a problem with taking 6 courses.
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6 Courses a semester is a typical engineering schedule so it's most certainly do-able.



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