University students: did ya get all your courses?

I almost did. I did pretty well I figure. Just didn't get into my Astr 403 (Cosmology) course, nor my Phys 304 (Quantum Mechanics) courses. Ah well, there's always next year.

It's odd though cause ASTR 403 is intended as an elective for physics/astro majors, yet they schedule it to overlap with the required PHYS 308 optics course that is required for both a physics and astro degree...

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Yeah, I did a while ago too, but I've just been doing some fiddling around with my schedule/classes/electives lately.

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Courses like cosmology....go to the professor and tell him what your major is and make yourself known. You'll get in (hopefully). All of the astro majors sat in on that entire course without registering and those that needed the grade registered later. I didn't need the class so I just sat in and hung out.

Quantum....people will drop like flies. That class is hard. Go talk to the prof and ask him what your prospects are and if you can sit in. Many of the people in there are probably taking it for the second time. Ask them if you have a chance of getting in as well.

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Unfortunately my registration date for the next quarter is when I am going to be in Honduras, on August 5. Don't know exactly how I'm gonna work that one out.

I'm gonna take Network Analysis II, Network Analysis I Lab, Electrical Devices & Circuits, Electrical Materials and Properties, and Thermal Physics. I don't have to take the Thermal Physics class, but I needed another one to fill a time slot, so I said why not. It was either that or Introduction to Music. But I'll probably have to take that as well some other quarter... Stupid GE.

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I've had a lot of math. I did the probability stuff with differential equations and all that nonsense. I'll have to study it up a bit I guess, but I think I'll be good.

Next quarter my business will probably be sold, which will really give me more time to focus on my studies. I'm just a lazy son of a bitch, but I'm pulling a 3.7 GPA off about 3-4 hours a week of homework/studying. Just imagine what I could do if I actually applied myself!

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The Thermal isn't a GE requirement. I'm taking it for fun I guess. Sounds interesting. The Intro to Music is the GE I gotta take, but I don't want to take that so I'm taking Thermal instead this quarter.

I just realized you are logged on right now as I am. Ain't that f*ckin' special.

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Oh, it's not a matter of limited spots, it's all schedule conflicts. In order to make the cosmology class I'd have to skip optics (both are only offered in one section all year).

Same with the quantum class. Single class of 67 students offered all year. It's full, but it also conflicts with a lab class I have to take this year, which is also only offered in one time slot.

It's not a big deal though, just means I'll take some 400 level physics this year and then do more astro next year.

So far I've got:

This year:

PHIL 220A: Logic (arts requirement)
ASTR 303: Extragalactic astro
MATH 316: Differential equations II
PHYS 209: Lab (I couldn't get into it in 2nd year)
PHYS 301: Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 308: Optics
PHYS 314: Fluid physics
PHYS 400: Elementary particles
PHYS 412: Atomic physics

Next year:

ASTR 402 Astrophysical Processes
ASTR 403 Cosmology
ASTR 404 Astronomical and Astrophysical Measurements
ASTR 405 Astronomical Laboratory
PHYS 304 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 402 Applications of Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 403 Statistical Physics
PHYS 407 Introduction to General Relativity
PHIL 324 or 460A: Logic II or Philosophy of Science (arts req again)

That'll land me an astro degree and I think a physics minor. If I do 2 physics labs and a directed study in physics next year too, I should get credit for a double major in physics and astro; gotta talk to the advisors though.

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I hope you know your limits. I was one of the most insane Astro majors with the course loads that I took and once you hit the 4 physics/astro courses in a semester things get hairy.

It of course depends on the school and professor though so find out which course are going to kill you and schedule accordingly.

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I've seen one guy go grey and I've seen a couple people have anxiety attacks and end up in the hospital. Of course I've seen a couple people quit even up beyond their junior year.

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The most eerie experience I ever had was during my first midterm in university ever. It was for my chem class and first year chem as you well know has a lot of students in it. My class was about 450 or so I think and we were in a big theatre-style lecture hall. Every seat was taken and it was most everyone's first midterm in uni ever. We sat down, nervous as sh!t and started to write.

The room was near-silent with the constant murmur of scratching pencils and clicking calculator buttons broken only by the occasional sound of a flipping page. 5 minutes into the test the serenity was broken by some light sobbing. One girl, who apparently hadn't studied, just flipped through her exam, put her head down on her desk and broke down crying. She wasn't bawling, but what noise she did make filled the entire lecture hall for the remaing 45 minutes of the exam. Oh god was that ever freaky.

One guy I know had a guy in his first year calc class break down during the final. He stood up halfway through started making a diving motion while repeating the phrase: "I am an integer! I am an integer!" They had to restrain him and haul him off to the hospital.

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Dang them's some crazy stories. I've never had anything like that. I remember though on my Calculus IV final, one of the students stood up like 10 minutes or so into the test and turned his paper in to the prof and said "I can't do this." The prof said "okay" and the guy left. That's gotta suck.

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LOL. That would suck. I've seen lots of people just stare at their test for the whole hour(s), or just get up and walk out. I've also seen people sit through the whole class and get all F's. It's just got to suck.

One semester was really hard and the final schedule was brutal. On Monday I had an 8 am Quantum final, a 10 am E/M final, and the next day it continued with Classical Mechanics etc etc...

Anyways on that Monday I knew I needed at least 30 minutes to study for the E/M test but there was only a few min gap betweeen tests. I literally had to leave the FINAL early so that I could pull off the next final. Not really a big deal since I knew the material, but the shity part was that the final had several pages of errors and the professor was still working on it an hour into the test. It was very stressful to finish the first problem and hear, "Yeah, I'm gonna need you to change that first problem...". He did that through the whole course of course and was a major twit. They took the course from him finally after that. Either way I couldn't figure out the last problem since he himself didn't understand it and I didn't have any time. I did every homework problem at least 6 times and had 2 years worth of previous exams to study off of and he still made that course a pain in the asss. Jeriatric bastard.

I run out and go to meet up with everyone else to study for E/M and everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It was comical but very stressful. We had to have "silent" moments just to get back in the zone. Everyone had their reasons, whether it was the 3 of us who were in that previous exam, people not sleeping for a week straight, people working full time, etc etc, but it was the worst finals EVER. Seeing your Navy buddy break down and cry isn't cool either. Poor guy was working full time and just couldn't grasp the idea that getting straight A's was impossible with that kind of schedule.

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