EPTAdvice to College Freshmen - Page 3
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ShadowDrgn
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thedeadhaji
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On September 14 2011 08:46 ShadowDrgn wrote: I completely agree with this haji. I never finished a semester in undergrad with more than 14 credit hours, and I was way more relaxed than all my friends who were constantly taking 17+. Between AP credit and a couple summer classes, I still graduated in 4 years, and I did it with highest honor at Georgia Tech. and if you're concerned about not learning enough, you can always audit classes and do reading on the side as time allows. Glad to hear you had success with this approach. I wish I had known better during my undergrad years. I could have done a lot of things differently, but this would have been the most significant. | ||
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MaRiNe23
United States747 Posts
 Honestly I'm in no hurry to graduate. | ||
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duckett
United States589 Posts
I came in taking 5 classes and dropped one and then took 4 easyish classes the next semester because of advice like this, and I could not regret it more. In fact I took 202 Linear rather than 204 just because it wasnt a guaranteed A, and I took 103 Physics instead of 105 because I was a little intimidated (this decision more or less destroyed any chance I had at being a physics major as I just fell behind the curve on that one). I just had no direction, really, besides thinking that I might want to become a doctor. I also felt a little alienated from my peers at princeton because they were all there because they really fucking wanted to learn something while I was open to the notion of living life a little. Which at the time meant playing starcraft, which at the time was just not the right thing for me to be doing. What I hadnt understood was that most students at pton are nerdy, not in a normal way, but in the way that they really enjoy and are into what they are studying. So the best way to make my life make sense in the context of this college was to really throw myself into it, and I feel much more at home after having busted through 24 credit hours/sem of the hardest classes that I thought were even slightly interesting. Going to try to stay above 28 credit hours a semester for the rest of my time here. There's just so much to learn and experience in college if you are an academic at heart, it's really unbelievable how quickly it goes by. It's true that it's different for every person, and I'd understand your position better if you were an engineer, but if you commit yourself to the life of an academic through many of the sciences or humanities, you are bound to this struggle to satiate your thirst for knowlege and the challenges and failures that come with it. Such is life. | ||
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