College Anyone?

[kirbywizard]

What were the first few college classes you people took?
I am in high school, on my second year and I am starting some college classes right now. So I am curios on what other people are taking or took.

 

[Proverbs]

Really depends on your school. Just get Gen Eds out of the way. That's my recommendation. If you're going to a good school just make the best of your gen eds. I'm taking a lot of cool classes that still fulfill my requirements. That's my advice.

 

[xXalphaSSJ4IRONMAN007omegaXx]

If you don't know what you want to major in, then you can take your general education classes or your general pre-reqs, ex: usually everyone needs an English class or two, everyone needs some kind of social elective like histories or psychologies. Everyone needs some sciences like Biology, Chemistry, Physics.

If you know what you want to do, then its that much easier.

Colleges have course catalogs that let you know what classes are required for what paths and what classes are required for everyone. Go to campus and pick one up or go to your Uni's website and look at it / download it.

 

[~Krystal~]

See an advisor, get a degree plan, and highlight all the courses you absolutely need to take. Too many people take classes they don't need and they usually find out at the end of the semester. Waste of money and waste of time. Plan ahead!

 

[GoldShadow]

Taking college classes in second year of high school? Do you mean actual college classes, or like APs? AP doesn't count!

I guess, technically, the first "college" class I took was a Co-Op Spanish V class; the curriculum was set by the state university and we got college credit for the class (though it was taught in high school by a high school teacher). Not counting AP classes which I started earlier (but I don't count AP courses as college courses).

If you mean first college classes in an actual college, well I started those when I started college. Intro bio, gen chem, calc, and freshman english.

 

[Zero Beat]

Listen to Proverbs and get the general eds out of the way, as long as they are required by your major.

My first classes were intro to humanities, college algebra, human growth and development, and biology.

 

[slave1]

take college math classes so you dont have to take any or very few

 

[M@v]

college algebra

aaaannnndddddd im jealous. I have to take calculus . But as everyone said, take gen ed aps, since they cover all bases.

 

[shmookiewookie bear]

Besides lots of chem and math this year I've taken a history of rock and roll class and a history of religion class, both of which were much more interesting than all the pre med classes :/

 

[Proverbs]

Listen to Proverbs

Yes. Taken out of context to mean whatever I want. I could so use this in tons of random arguments/debates now ;D

 

[Scott!]

Yes, get requirements out of the way. It makes things easier. I came into college undecided with no clue, so I just did all my requirements that weren't filled by APs. Now, I'm in a bit of a mad rush to finish on time, and having all the general stuff taken care of makes things so much easier. Plus, if you're not like me, you might have room left at the end for something random that interests you to make your last semester or year a little less crazy. It's all about learning what interests you anyway.

My first college class was a History of Western Civilization thing. It was taught during my high school day by a teacher from the high school, but they were also employed by the community college as a professor and taught the course to people who wanted a head start with college courses and credit. It was pretty nice coming out of high school with 6 credits (2 semesters) in addition to my AP stuff. Leaves some leeway in college scheduling, since you can afford to take it easy for a semester or two in terms of number of courses you're taking.

 

[AltF4]

Actually, I preferred to spread out the Gen Ed classes. I pretty much took one per semester. It worked out because it was pretty much a free A, and required no work.

Lol, philosophy classes are a joke. I could do a philosophy degree in my spare time. Of which I have very little.

 

[Zero Beat]

Lol, philosophy classes are a joke. I could do a philosophy degree in my spare time. Of which I have very little.

With the way you seem to describe words such as the "impossible" explanation in the Agnosticism thread, you'd get plenty of tomatoes thrown at you in a Philosophy course.

 

[Xsyven]

I'd recommend doing a NO FUN ALLOWED plan in college for the first two years.

For my first two years of college, I ended up dropping pretty much all of my general ed classes, and stuck to my fun electives. I'm pretty far from even an associate's degree, even though I have two years under my belt.

 

[AltF4]

Well, the philosophers better not throw too many tomatoes. They don't get paid enough to afford that many.


There's a long history of Engineers poking fun at philosophers. It's actually quite entertaining. In computer science, abstract problems are often boiled down to a contrived example, meant only to demonstrate a difficult or unsolved problem in the field. There are plenty, like "The Muddy Children Problem", the "Sleeping Barber Problem", and "Cigarette Smoker's Problem".

My favorite is "The dining Philosopher's problem" The problem goes as follows:

Five philosophers are eating dinner at a round table. There are eating rice with chopsticks, but only have 5 chopsticks which are placed between each philosopher. In order to eat, a philosopher needs two chopsticks, but they can only use the ones adjacent to them.

Now as everyone knows, a philosopher can only do two things: Eat and Think. And they cannot do them at the same time either.

Then the challenge is to describe an algorithm so that the philosophers can eat and think most efficiently, and without deadlocking. Quite funny.

 

[POKE40]

"exploring physics"
lol. I can't believe this is a college class.

I took this and its like "what have you learned in the past years? Lets do it all over again!"
AP US. History...
jeez that freakn test is coming up ):

 

[DtJ Jungle]

i took bio, chem, psych, stats, english, and math my freshman year

dont dont do that.

 

[drcossack]

"exploring physics"
lol. I can't believe this is a college class.

I took this and its like "what have you learned in the past years? Lets do it all over again!"
AP US. History...
jeez that freakn test is coming up ):

oh god, that test. I haven't one as hard as that one in 5 years of college.

i took bio, chem, psych, stats, english, and math my freshman year

dont dont do that.

In one semester? Ouch. I spread all of that stuff out.

 

[M@v]

Oh yeah, and unless you Take AP calc and AP chem/physics in high school and do at least decent, don't do engineering. It will eat you alive.

 

[Bassoonist]

It's always nice to get some of your basic classes out of the way before you actually go to college, right?

Well I didn't do that, but I had one advantage... Taking AP Music Theory in high school. It got me out of Fundamentals of Music. I'm glad too, because that would have been a big pain... =/ I know some people who had to take it, and they're a semester behind everybody else.

My classes have all been music related, except for the basics, of course. This semester every single class is music. I like it that way. ^_^