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IJBM: When you drop an easier class that has a light workload because...
...you have a harder class with a heavier workload that you can't drop.
Hasn't happened to me (yet?) this semester, but has happened to me in the past.
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Starting my last year of high school in a week or two. Hoping this doesn't occur.
It won't, till college. Then it will almost certainly happen.
Hasn't happened to me yet but that's more because I was being stupid and obstinate than anything else. It SHOULD have happened Winter Quarter of last year. I know exactly which class I would've dropped too.
I dropped a history course today for this exact purpose.
You're a lucky bastard for even having a schedule flexible enough to be able to drop classes. Both of my majors were too rigid for much more than interchanging a general ed course, and there wasn't any slip room in the credit pace I had to keep.
Well, that's exactly why you drop that additional class that you signed up for because you thought it might be fun and easy.
Except I couldn't drop those either, just replace it with an equivalent course for general ed requirements. I had to average 17 credits a term all the way through the program to get everything done in reasonable time -- just having a hole in the schedule would've meant getting delayed another year beyond what the admissions departments cheated me out of in transfers.
^What was your major? I can only think of a select few that consistently requires that many credits per semester in my college.
Granted I'm taking into account summer courses.
You mean, like...chemical engineering?
^Without summer courses, maybe.
I know at my undergrad place, a department can only require up to a certain number of major-specific credit units (I think it's 192) for a major.
(Note the 192 is under a different system; 12 units is your typical class, which corresponds roughly to 3 or 4 units at other places.)
Chemical engineering and aero/astro engineering have maxed that out.
17? I've noticed that my school apparently has rather strict credit requirements; I've just started freshman year and I'm on 18 credits. Now, you'd think that's maybe because I'm also dual-majoring, but a bunch of people here that I know of have 18 credits (and I heard one freshman say he's on 21), and you need, I think, 140 to graduate. I would have rolled with it, but apparently their friends are on 14-15 credits much of the time.
how the hell does american school even work where 17 credits a semester is even possible
College, and here is the breakdown, two 4 credit classes and three 3 credit classes.
Why would a class be worth four credits I don't get it
For my college it is when there is around 3 hour's of lecture and a lab or the class has around 4 hours of lecture. Think Spanish and nursing classes for example on the last one.
At my school, I had an hour of Japanese each on every day but Wednesday, so four hours.
@delta534: Oh okay, it being based on time actually makes sense.
The phrase "17 credits a semester" just made my eyes pop out because over here the standard is 2.5 credits a semester (with a one-semester course being worth half a credit and a two-semester course being worth one credit).
I guess they just round up?
That seems about right, my school treats 50 minutes in lecture as 1 credit.
Speaking of school, I made a fairly significant step towards getting back into college today
At my undergrad place, they counted expected number of hours in lecture, lab/fieldwork, and studying. Take their total and you have the number of credit units the class is worth. A typical class, depending on how many hours of lecture it has in a week, is like 5-0-7, 4-0-8, or 3-0-9.
Thing is, the almost ALWAYS rounded these to numbers divisible by three. I only know of two 8-unit classes, three 4-unit classes, and one 1-unit class. It's almost like a minor achievement if you manage to make your total credit count not 0 mod 3 (i.e. not divisible by three).
Your basic full-size class is 12 units. A smaller class is 9 units; 6-unit classes are often half-semester classes. A lab might be 15 or 18 units, and have a unit count like 4-8-6.
Started the process of requesting a late withdrawal from my last semester.