Unfortunately, biochem 2ee3 lectures are at the same time as Chem eng 2a04.

I was wondering if keeping this conflict would be a bad thing? Both courses are required except biochem is usually taken in third year.

Ive heard biochem lectures are really useless so there is no point in going, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

I wouldn't keep the conflict. You really don't know what you'll be missing in lecture even if it might be considered 'useless.' However, if that isn't a good reason for you and you want to keep it... just be careful that in the unfortunate event that you happen to have in-class midterms for both these classes on the same day/time. That'll be a problem!

I took BIOCHEM 2EE3 and actually thought that I needed to go to lectures. His slides are kind of useless because it's usually just a figure (which he doesn't even put into the slides due to copyright issues so he just puts "Fig 24.1" in that space) and then a sentence.

Would you take 8 hundred dollar bills and light them on fire?

I'm having the same problem except only 1 of the lectures is in conflict... Do you think that's an okay idea? Ugh...

If you're in the Faculty of Science, and even if just one lecture is in conflict, the Dean's office will follow up with you past the Drop/Add deadline or sometime around then as you are not permitted to enroll in the conflict.

In terms of engineering, one of my Engineering friends did mention that he knew people who were registered in conflicts. I still wouldn't recommend it though. If Biochem is taken in 3rd year, I'd stick with that. Might just make your life easier and you may be able to take a course you were looking forward to right now. Engineering and Biochem are not identical in the way they are taught and you may find going to lectures incredibly helpful.

Originally Posted by Ivan Q.

I wouldn't keep the conflict. You really don't know what you'll be missing in lecture even if it might be considered 'useless.' However, if that isn't a good reason for you and you want to keep it... just be careful that in the unfortunate event that you happen to have in-class midterms for both these classes on the same day/time. That'll be a problem!

It can also happen with exams.

I did this for physics and english in my last year of undergrad, they were both rather skippable lectures (one was online, one was pointless), and it worked out quite well for me

The Biochem midterms were during class time, so I don't really recommend staying in the conflict. Your best bet would be to take Biochem2EE3 in 3rd year instead.

Yes I think the best thing to do is to drop 2EE3 for now and take it later in the summer. You really can't have a conflict its not good and the as sara mentioned the tests are during class time, and he tells you during class time the things that might show up in the test (he is very hard to hear, imagine listening to a very strong russian accent) but you might pick up few things. I suggest you drop it and take it in the summer. Its actually better in the summer, just memorize that shit for 2 months and BOOM done. this whole course was memorizing stupid facts, numbers etc so I suggest you take it during the summer.

This seems to be such a popular question today, so ill just past what I told the last guy:

Im not sure if your conflicting mandatory sections (like 2 labs you have to be at no matter what) or if its just 2 lectures etc...

In my last year before I graduated I conflicted english and physics which was fine bc english lec was useless and physics was online, and i managed quite well. Other than that situation I think it would be a poor decision to have conflicting courses, unless of course you have an established buddy study system, in which case go right ahead.

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