College FIRSTers!! What classes are you taking this Fall 2004?

[Elgin Clock]

As for me.. well.. One of the possible classes (Physics) I want to take is closed, but it is taught by a fellow FIRST mentor from another CT team, so I hope I can sneak in with permission.

That's what I get for trying to sign up so late.

(Why do classes start earlier and earlier every year??)

[MikeDubreuil]

I'm on co-op, no courses for me :D

[Erin Rapacki]

uhh.... Technical Writing (very time consuming), Intro to IE (yay!), Quality, and Digital Simulated Technology

...then coop for another six months!!! woopeee!!!!!

[Billfred]

lessee....(logs into VIP)

Music appreciation
University 101
Some speech class, can't remember the name.
Calculus for BAs
English 101

[Swan217]

Solids, Fluids, Heat Transfer, Engineering Materials, and Numerical Methods & Matrices (Math). So far I'm 3 for 5 with the worst possible teachers I can get, but there's still time to get bad teachers for the other two! :-p

[Ashley Weed]

New Media and the Web, IST class, Calculus, Programming

[MikeyP]

Chemistry 115, English 106, Calculus 161, Engineering 106, and Engineering 104.
:D GO PURDUE!

[Jessica Boucher]

Hmmm...

Marketing Research - Something I've done multiple times before, but never taken a class on it. There's a project at the end of this that I've got some great ideas for... ;)

Operations Research - A deep dive into Ops, in the Math department. Because Babson feels the need to be "integrated", a lot of my intermediate classes were in giving me a broad, integrated view of business administration - so I know a bit about Operations, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, Accounting, all mixed together like a pint of Ben & Jerry's. The later you go, the more your classes become "deep dives" into areas you've already touched upon before.

Web Technologies - Basically, I was bored with the other Lib Arts classes being offered (you can only read so much "Poetry from the Industrial Age"), and the prof is hysterical.

MCFE: New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, my personal favorite. MCFE (Management Consulting Field Experience) is a interview-required class where students are placed into groups to act as consultants to non-profits. My group will be looking at NBSO's membership base and working with them to expand it to a level of consistent, manageable growth.

Because MCFE has no set class time, and all my other classes are on Tuesday & Thursdays, I have Mondays & Wednesdays off :)

[Pat Roche]

hmm.....
Gen Chem, Physics 1, Calc 1, First year seminar and Great Ideas: Western Culture.....
I'm going to be busy I think.... :yikes:

-Pat

[Beth Sweet]

The Principles of Advertising, Math 110 (yay for not being able to test into any smart math classes...) and Writing: the Evolution of American Thought. So far, I've only read a couple of the books for the writing class, but they're really good, I'm excited.

[Greg Needel]

pneumatics and Hydraulics, Strengh of materials, Differential Equations, physics 3, co-op prep

[jpsaul7usa]

Organic Chemistry 2 + 6hr/week lab - It's reaction time.
Inorganic Chemistry 1 - What's this all about?
Physics 2 - Pssst. physics...
Calculus 3 - Easier than Calc 2, right?
Biology 1 (Honors) + 3hr/week lab - Most failed class at NAU, here I come!

I also get credit for mentoring new Honors Students one hour a week, and I should get like 10 credits/sem for being an RA, but I'll happily take the room and board.

I like science and math :)

[Matt Leese]

I think my classes have more exciting names than everyone elses so far (not that they're more exciting, just that the names are):
Digital Control Systems
Principles of Digital Interfacing
Advanced Computer Architecture
Principles of Robotics

I'm also taking Golf to finish up my activities credits. I was going to take badmitton but that conflicts with a lab I'm teaching.

Matt

[Jeff Waegelin]

Well, I'm currently taking a little of both ME and EE, and I'm in the Michigan Marching Band so my schedule is a little uhh... diverse. Here it is:

EECS 216: Intro to Circuits
ME 250: Design and Manufacturing I
ME 211: Intro to Solids
ENS 354: Marching Band

[Clark Gilbert]

MA221: Calc for Tech
MET111: Applied Statics
CPT175: Visual Programming (lecture/lab)
PHYS218: General Physics (lecture/lab)
CHM111: General Chemistry (lecture/lab)

:)

[Adam Y.]

Enginering Design
Introduction to Engineering
Chemistry for Engineering
Chemistry for Engineering Lag
Calculus for Engineering 1
Theatre and Society

[mtrawls]

Phew! After administrative messes, I've finally finalized (nearly) my schedule ... the joy of being a first year.

Rodman Engineering (basic intro engineering course for honors program)
Chem lab
Ordinary differential equations
Either CS201 or 202 (discrete mathematics)
SPAN 330, Literary analysis
SPAN 411, Adv. conversation and grammar

[Wetzel]

ENGL 101
STAT 210
BIOL 151
BIOZ 151
HUMS 291

[Amanda Morrison]

English 489 - Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing
English 250 - American Literature 2

Freshman year, I was put into a bunch of classes that I didn't need. Therefore, my remaining three classes are all the 'freshman' courses required by the university to graduate. Let's hear it for an easy semester.

[Ryan Albright]

Freshman comp
college algebra
Intro to humanities
Us government

yay freshman year of college

[Scott England]

ME 5754 - Impact Biomechanics
ESM 5314 - Intermediate Dynamics*
*while it's called Intermediate Dynamics, they mean Intermediate Graduate Dynamics, there is also an undergrad Intermediate Dynamics, a more appropriate name would be Dynamics 4*
plus the ESM seminar which brings the total to just 7 credit hours.

Huzzah for being a graduate student and getting paid to go to school while taking far less credits than I ever did as an undergrad. Though I consider this semester vindication for last fall, my first semester as a grad student, when I had Continuum Mechanics, Fluids 4, Advanced Biomechanics, ESM seminar, taught one of the solid mechanics labs, and brown-nosed in the laboratory I work in now to get picked up on a research assistantship so I wouldn't have to teach any more whining undergrads :)

[Stephen Kowski]

Classes, huh? well ill sign up for a few now that i see everyone is doing it....but i won't enjoy it mind you....

[David Kelly]

COMPUTER SCIENCE- N351 INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA PROGRMG
INFORMATICS- I210 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE I
INFORMATICS- I303 ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATICS
NEW MEDIA- N215 ON-LINE DOCUMENT DEVELOPMENT

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Network Theory and Application
Operating Systems
Microprocessor Assembly Language
Object Oriented C++

[RogerR]

statics
physics 2
physics lab
calc 3
comp 2

[dachickindapit]

Multivariate Calculus
Mechanics 1
Electricity&Magnetism (&lab)
Introduction to Social Sciences (I hate that we have to take humanities-type stuff! :rolleyes: )

[OneAngryDaisy]

this is what I get for being undecided... classes I don't really care for, although on thursday I only have one class and friday I'm off.. can you say a 4 day weekend? not too bad for a freshman.. (and i've heard most of them are rather easy, kinda wish I had a math course though- darn Liberal Arts college)

Writing & Literature
Science Tech Values
Intro to International Relations
Career Exploration
First Year Enrichment


Hopefully I'll learn enough to decide on my major rather soon before I blow too much time on classes that won't help my required credit..

[ElfMaster]

Organic Chemistry 2 + 6hr/week lab - It's reaction time.
Inorganic Chemistry 1 - What's this all about?
Physics 2 - Pssst. physics...
Calculus 3 - Easier than Calc 2, right?
Biology 1 (Honors) + 3hr/week lab - Most failed class at NAU, here I come!

I also get credit for mentoring new Honors Students one hour a week, and I should get like 10 credits/sem for being an RA, but I'll happily take the room and board.

I like science and math :)

Calc 3 better be easier.... hopefully.... please?

Schedule:
Calc 3- yeah Calculus!... I'm serious. I love calculus... but thats just me
Elementary Differential Equations, hence the reason I want calc 3 to be easier...
Physics 2 with lab ::sobbs::
Statics
Structures and Materials

Plus I'll be working 10 hours a week in a satellite lab... and hopefully I'll still have time for some Karate! and robotics... hm... maybe I just won't sleep...

On a side note: Does anyone here go to ASU or NAU (exluding Justin)?

[Aaron Knight]

My 3rd semester @Syracuse University:
CIS275 - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics
CIS341 - Intel Assembly
CIS351 - Data Structures 1
MAT331 - Linear Algebra
HST230 - British History
HNR210 - Arts and Society

On top of those 18 credits, I'll be working 10-15 hours a week at my current job, as web designer for the Office of Orientation and Transition Services (http://students.syr.edu/orientation/index.html).

Hopefully, next semester (Spring) will work out such that Robotics will stay in the picture... wouldn't miss that :)

[Kristina]

Poli sci 30- Political strategy
Poli sci 141b- Public opinion and voting behavior
Poli sci 145c- Constitutional law

Gee, any guesses on my major?

[Markeng]

Here's my list of classes.

ENGR 116 (Honors Engineering Problem Solving)
CGT 163 (Computer Graphics)
CHM 115 (Chemistry)
COM 114
MA 271 (Multivariate Calculus)
ENGR 100H (Honors Engineering Lecture)

18 hours of credit! Well, less than next semester (19 hours)
Go Purdue!!!

[Cory]

Poli sci 30- Political strategy
Poli sci 141b- Public opinion and voting behavior
Poli sci 145c- Constitutional law

Gee, any guesses on my major?

You're going to be an engineer... duh Kristy...

Im takin Calc III, Principles of Physics, and European Social History

[Manoel]

Fourth semester, Electrical Engineering course at the Federal University in my state:
(Some names are hard to translate... Sorry :o)

Applied Math - Laplace and Fourier transforms, Fourier series;

Numerical Calc - Numerical solutions for pretty much everything that can be solved... :p

Physics IV-C - EM waves, modern physics stuff;

Strength of Materials - Load calculations and that sort of things;
(that one probably has a better name in English :))

[EDIT: Read in another post and Strength of Materials is probably a good translation]

Fundamental Electronics - Diodes and BJTs;

Circuit Analysis II - RLC circuits analysis in the frequency domain;

34 credits, :ahh: , hopefully ending in time for the Kickoff. :D

[D.J. Fluck]

MA 153- Pre Calculus (for my own benifit)
ECET 107 Introduction to Circuit Analysis
ECET 109 Digital Fundamentals
ECET 196 Introduction to ECET and Projects

[Melissa Nute]

Calc 4
Principles of Physics: Mechanics
PoP: Electricity
Ordinary Diff Equations
American Drama
Social Psych
Tennis
Squash

[Manoel]

Rodman Engineering (basic intro engineering course for honors program)


Read it more than once in this thread, what is an honors program?
Too lazy to google for it... :)

[ngreen]

16 Hrs with 4 classes... fun.

Calc 3
Chemical Analysis
Engineering Physics 1
Process Analysis


Honors Program: At least at K-state it is where you have a undergraduate research requirement and you graduate it is mentioned as graduating in the honors program, not particularly graduating with honors (cum laude, so on). You have to maintain a 3.5 or above in a 4.0 scale to stay in the program.

[BSBgrlNikCarter]

I'll be starting classes on Aug 31st - it definitely came up alot sooner than I expected. I'll be taking:
HIST 102 - Survey of Western Civilization II
COMM 101 - Intro to Mass Communications
ENGL 102 - Literary Genres
PHIL 101 - Critical Thinking
ITAL 101 - Italian I & Lab
UNIV 104 - Gonzaga Pathways

btw does anyone know of any FIRSTers going to Gonzaga University (in spokane, WA)?

[suneel112]

I am still a high school senior, but i have Math 271 (MA 271) at Purdue (West Lafayette Campus). Markeng, what hour do you have it. I have it 2:30-3:20. I look forward to seeing a fellow FIRSTer.

[Karthik]

This is my catch up semester, where I take all the classes I've been avoiding for the past 6 years.

Real Analysis
Partial Differential Equations
Stats
Graph Theory
Polynomials, Rings & Fields

If it doesn't sound fun, it's because it really isn't.

[Andy Baker]

This is my catch up semester, where I take all the classes I've been avoiding for the past 6 years.

Real Analysis
Partial Differential Equations
Stats
Graph Theory
Polynomials, Rings & Fields

If it doesn't sound fun, it's because it really isn't.

Holy smokes, that is one killer lineup. Everyone, this is the last we may see of Karthik for the next 4 months. Go get 'em, buddy!

Andy B.

[Elgin Clock]

Holy smokes, that is one killer lineup. Everyone, this is the last we may see of Karthik for the next 4 months. Go get 'em, buddy!

Andy B.
Smart Karthik.. cramming in all the big classes in a FIRST off-season semester.

That is one of the problems in being a college FIRSTer; hoping you are taking the "easy" classes during the six weeks - jugling school and team and work too.. sometimes.

I don't know what "easy" class I'm going to take next spring, but it better not be physics.. That's all I have to say.

[Wetzel]

Read it more than once in this thread, what is an honors program?
Too lazy to google for it... :)

The specifics are diffrent at every school, but the general idea is that they are harder classes for more motivated students. There is usually a GPA requirement to stay in the program. At VCU, there is also Honors housing, so you are living with other study minded people(and it's really nice housing)


Wetzel

[Suneet]

I'm taking Honors Physics (Electromagnitism and Optics), Astrophysics (Evolution of Stars and Galaxies), Math (Linear Algebra & Diff. Eqns.), and Music in American Culture. And I Start in a Week. Yay, 2nd year! :D

[Ashley Weed]

The specifics are diffrent at every school, but the general idea is that they are harder classes for more motivated students. There is usually a GPA requirement to stay in the program. At VCU, there is also Honors housing, so you are living with other study minded people(and it's really nice housing)


Wetzel

On an additional note with the honors at Penn State any student can make any course an honors course with the approval of the instructor. You don't necessarily have to be in an honors program or "honors track" to make one of your classes honors level. If over your years of completing a degree, you complete a certain number of honors courses (credits), you graduate from the Honors College in addition to your degree.

[Christina]

Well, taking all engineering classes last year is going to finally pay off (although it almost killed me last quarter...Joseph can attest to that one). My last year (stupid 5 year school) won't be jam packed with engineering classes. So, this upcoming quarter my classes are:

Death & Dying (for my psychology conectration...sounds depressing though)
Humanistic Psychology
System Dynamics
Senior Design 1 (looks like we're going to be making a super stable fly by wire air vehicle! woo!)

Oh, and look! I haven't completely fallen off the face of the earth...or Chief Delphi for that matter. :D

[Billfred]

Well, just an update to my first post...

Today was the first day of classes, and I had University 101. It's this small-scale class, like twenty kids, all of which are taking education. So we had to go around the room and say something about the last four people (whatever they'd said), and say something about yourself.

Truth, I swear...

My name is Billfred, and for reasons that will soon become known, I am JVN.
Everyone was confused, but I intend to make things a bit more clear on Tuesday when I present my lifeline project. (After all, I would HAVE to wedge FIRST into that somewhere!)

[Ryan Curry]

Engineering Mechanics
Differential Equations & Linear Algebra
Engineering Materials and Processes
Engineering Professional Development
Physics of Electricity and Magnetism
Graphics For Engineering Design


-Rc
@Lehigh

[Elyse Holguin]

physics 214 (no lab), management 100 (w/ lecture), com 114 (grr to required speech class), medieval history, math 153 (hey, it counts towards my major, and it's alg./trig.:yikes:) and german 202. I'm also in a president's leadership class that meets once a week, and i get a $1000 scholarship for it!

hehe, w00t to management majors.

[aaronbr28040]

I'm at NC State University and I'm taking:
CH101 Chemistry: A Molecular Science
CH102 Chemistry Lab
E101 Intro to Engineering
E115 Computing Environments
EC205 Fundamentals of Economics
ENG101 Academic Writing and Research
MA241 Calculus II

for a total of 17 hours. Being a freshman sucks......too many early morning classes.

-Aaron

[rbayer]

I'll be a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon, and as of right now, it looks like I'll be taking:

Math 374 - Field Theory
Math 454 - Number Theory
CS 213 - Systems Programming
CS 451 - Algorithm Design and Analysis
Intro to Econ
Elementary Russian 1

[Jake177]

I'm a freshman at WPI, and we're on a quarter system, so
1st quarter- Popular Fiction, Calc III, Principles of Physics-Mechanics
2nd quarter- Intro to Drama, Calc IV, General Physics-Electric-Magnetic

[indieFan]

AM 316 - Engineering Dynamics
MSE 511 - Robotics w/Applications (+Lab)
MSE 516 - CAD/CAM Advanced Tools (+Lab)
MSE 409 - Fundamentals of CAM (+Lab)
MSE 412 - Manufacturing Processes (+Lab)
MSE 488A - Manufacturing Systems Senior Design I
MSE 392 - Undergraduate Research

[BionicAlumni]

me 455 - vibrations
me 484 - kinemices
me 495 - applied thermal sciences
me 476 - senior design I
mat 226 - discrete mathematics
mat 316 - linear algebra

Look like fun to anyone else?
And to whoever asked, I also go to NAU

[Vin211]

Of course college courses are very important every semester. This semester my courses which present a scientific or technological background are as follows:


Chemistry
IT: Quality Assurance
IT: Industrial Safety
Computer Electronics Tech: Administrative Systems
Philosophy: Computer Ethics

They certainly sound like fun. Hahhaah yeah right. Bring me the new robotics season NOW!

[Joe Ross]

Well, I finally got my final quarter's schedule worked out.

Electric and Magnetic Fields II
Mechatronics
Embedded Microcontroller Systems
Design of Digital Systems

[Katie Reynolds]

MAT105 - Intro to College Algebra
ENG101 - Composition I (all the comp II classes were full :( )
ENG279 - African American Women Writers
MUS170 - Fundamentals of Music

... Kinda undecided as to what I want to major in. Can you tell? ;)

[MrToast]

Hmmm, lessee here:

Honors 200: Writing (GenEd :p )
Honors 201: History of Civilization
Honors 295R: The Pen and the Sword (weekly movie that goes w/ H201)
Rel. A 121 H: Book of Mormon! :D
MeEn 172: CATIA CAD
MeEn 191: Intro. to Mechanical Engineering lecture
Math 113H: Honors Calculus 2 :yikes:

For a whopping grand total of 16.5 credits. Yay! :D

MrToast, the coolest BYU freshman :cool:

[ahecht]

As Jake (one of the 6 members of 177 who signed up with 190 this year) said above, WPI is on the quarter system, so the only semester long courses I'm taking are Concert Band and String Ensemble (which together count as one course over the entire semester). My other courses are:

A Term: Fluid Mechanics, Kinematics, IQP
B Term: Thermodynamics, Stress Analysis, IQP

What is IQP? The Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) is one of the three projects WPI requires, and is supposed to "focus on the relationships among science, technology, and the needs of society". Our project falls under the "Education in a Technological Society" subcategory, and, if successful, will transform vastly expand the scope and scale of WPI's miniFIRST program. It's great to be able to do robotics competitions for credit!

[RMiller]

Chem 2301 O chem 1
Chem 3502 P chem 2
Chem 2312 Honors O chem lab
Phys 1401 Honors Phys (and lab/discussion)
Mus 3410 University Band
Chen 1001 Advances in ChemE and MatSci

Catch a theme here?

Next Sem:
Chem 2302 O chem 2
Chem 3501 P chem 1
Phys 1302 Physics 2 (and lab/discussion (honors meets at same time as p chem))
Mus 3410 University Band
Chen 4001 Material and Energy Balances
and a stat or liberal education requirement.

[Ryan Foley]

MAT 126: Calculus I
CHY 121: Introduction to Chemistry
CHY 123: Introduction to Chemistry Lab
PHY 121: Physics for Engineers and Physical Scientists I (includes a lab)
ECE 101: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
MUO 113: Pep Band

[coreyjon]

Materials science (every friday I get to spend 3 hours breaking stuff, except for NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) Labs (boooring))
MicroComp (so this is a computer?)
Engineering Drawings (I spent the last 4 years learning CAD/CAM, so now I have to learn how to do it by hand - kinda going back in time but ok)
Tech Math (and lastly, math, Hate it, but need it.)

[tkwetzel]

Today was the first day of classes, and I had University 101. It's this small-scale class, like twenty kids...

Small-scale??? :yikes: My largest class is twenty people.

I am attending Pennsylvania College of Technology and taking:
English Comp 1
Manual Transmission and Transaxle Principles
Fundamentals of Automatic Transmission
Engine Principles
Basic Fuel and Emission Control Systems

Obviously towards an automotive degree.

[Denman]

well, doing my a - levels (ie i'm going to be 17/18 at that time....)

i'm doing

Double Maths
Physics
Electronics

[Ashley Weed]

Small-scale??? :yikes: My largest class is twenty people.

I am attending Pennsylvania College of Technology and taking:
English Comp 1
Manual Transmission and Transaxle Principles
Fundamentals of Automatic Transmission
Engine Principles
Basic Fuel and Emission Control Systems

Obviously towards an automotive degree.


Rock On to the Penn State System!!!

Here in Wilkes-Barre..... I have a large class of appx. 15.... with average major classes at 6 students.

[Joe Ross]

Next quarter, I'm taking Real Life 201