college class

[LazyHermitCrab]

nervous for fall? there is this geology class (seems interesting) i'll be taking and it's three hours long, twice a week.. it says one day is lecture which is (hopefully) just listoning to powerpoints and the other is three hours of group activity ::::::::

 

[seafolly]

Yep, I'm pretty nervous too! Never have I had such a heavy and dry workload before so I'm questioning my capabilities at this point. It's hard to believe it's August already. Group work would make me nervous too. I have lovely physics labs to look forward to but that's the extend of groupwork for me. When it comes down to it, if a class involves groupwork I'll approach the professor at the beginning of lecture and ask if I can write a paper instead. All but one have been fine with this. That said, if the class has three hours reserved for it it doesn't sound like it'd something you could get out of. : / Do you need this class?

 

[LazyHermitCrab]

Yep, I'm pretty nervous too! Never have I had such a heavy and dry workload before so I'm questioning my capabilities at this point. It's hard to believe it's August already. Group work would make me nervous too. I have lovely physics labs to look forward to but that's the extend of groupwork for me. When it comes down to it, if a class involves groupwork I'll approach the professor at the beginning of lecture and ask if I can write a paper instead. All but one have been fine with this. That said, if the class has three hours reserved for it it doesn't sound like it'd something you could get out of. : / Do you need this class?

how long were the papers you wrote? that's nice though for me, it's required to take....-sigh-

 

[seafolly]

Undergrad really isn't bad. I don't know what year you're going into but my papers in first year were maybe 4 pages long. Second year was 6-8. Third called for around 10. I don't even WANT to know what my upcoming research paper will have to be.

My physics labs are mandatory as well for the biology degree. I hear your pain! Sometimes I wonder why I didn't opt for an English or Creative Writing major.

 

[LazyHermitCrab]

Undergrad really isn't bad. I don't know what year you're going into but my papers in first year were maybe 4 pages long. Second year was 6-8. Third called for around 10. I don't even WANT to know what my upcoming research paper will have to be.

My physics labs are mandatory as well for the biology degree. I hear your pain! Sometimes I wonder why I didn't opt for an English or Creative Writing major.

Well.. this should be the second, but for my first year I wasn't sure what to do, so it's like my second half of the first year. Cool major though, science really interests me, although the technical part can get challenging, heh. I really enjoy creative writing..english can get boring(grammar), unless there's literature involved. reseach papers can be fun, it's better than presentations, haha.