What are your classes this semester?

[Bacon King]

Only applicable if you're currently in school, of course.

IDEV-320 Approaches to Sustainable Human Development
POLA-315 Elections in America
POLC-303 Andean Politics
POLC-402 International Development: Latin America
POLC-610 Politics and Health
SPAN-112 Intermediate Spanish Review

I'm a Political Science/International Development coordinate major, and I'm seriously considering a minor in Latin American Studies as well. But all these classes have been great so far.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

BLR 222H - Racial Justice Through Law (BLR is business law and H is honors)
CHM 120 - Survey of Chemistry (because I had CLEPed out of Chem I and was in Chem II but I got there and I hadn't had a Chem class for 2 years and realized I remembered nothing)
CHM 127 - Intro Chem Lab
CPS 180 - Principles of Computer Programming
MET 310 - Atmospheric Radiation and Thermodynamics
MTH 334 - Differential Equations

[Sensei]

BLR 222H - Racial Justice Through Law (BLR is business law and H is honors)
CHM 120 - Survey of Chemistry (because I had CLEPed out of Chem I and was in Chem II but I got there and I hadn't had a Chem class for 2 years and realized I remembered nothing)
CHM 127 - Intro Chem Lab
CPS 180 - Principles of Computer Programming
MET 310 - Atmospheric Radiation and Thermodynamics
MTH 334 - Differential Equations

DIFFY Q!!! Have fun with that.

[Mart]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

[Kaine for Senate '18]

PE & Health II
English 10 Intensified
AP Euro
Spanish III
Chemistry
Algebra II
Intensified Ancient Civ

[Holmes]

This semester?

Chemical Dynamics
Biology
Intro to Calc I
Fundamentals of Computers
Worlds of Childhood

[Sensei]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

Sounds a lot like my Senior year schedule.

[tmthforu94]

High School Sophmore:

1. Pre-AP English
2. Pre-AP Chemistry
3. German
4. Computer Graphics
5. Pre-AP Algebra ll
6. World History

AP classes are not available until Junior year. I am in the most advanced classes offered for 10th graders.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

English 3
Swedish 3
Graphic Communication 3
Psychology 1
Natural Sience 2
Sports and Health 2
Working Enviorment and Safety (This sounds like the most boring class ever)
Enterprise Studies

[Mart]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

Sounds a lot like my Senior year schedule.

Any advice?

[Sensei]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

Sounds a lot like my Senior year schedule.

Any advice?

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

[Psychic Octopus]

High School Freshman --- and we go by Trimester.

1. FiT (Freshman in Transition)
2. Intro to MS Word
3. Honors Social Sciences (History)
4. Geometry
5. Honors English

[muon2]

From a thread in off-topic last week:

Not exactly taking, but I'm in these ...

First semester calculus-based physics (ie mechanics)
Advanced electronics for physics applications

[DownWithTheLeft]

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

No shot, all you need to do to pass AP Physics B (which I only got a 3 but I played ping pong every day in class) is memorize a few equations

[pogo stick]

Sophomore  in HS


1st Sem :

Honors  Civics & Economics
SEM 1
Spanish 1 / ROTC Marines 1
None (Schedule needs to be fixed) (should be honors biology)

2nd sem :

Honors English 2
Business law
Geometry
Spanish 1 / ROTC Marines 1

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

High School Freshman --- and we go by Trimester.

1. FiT (Freshman in Transition)
2. Intro to MS Word
3. Honors Social Sciences (History)
4. Geometry
5. Honors English

We did too at my HS. I miss those days so, so much.

[muon2]

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

No shot, all you need to do to pass AP Physics B (which I only got a 3 but I played ping pong every day in class) is memorize a few equations

If you intend to excel at physics it's the concepts that matter most. Students who can merely manipulate equations to produce an answer can run into trouble as they advance in the subject. They tend to have the problem of not seeing the forest for the trees. Furthermore, research in the 21th C involves little work "doing the math" in the sense you describe for AP physics. The complicated math is done on computers and the physicist's role is to understand the context and relationships for the inputs and outputs.

[DownWithTheLeft]

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

No shot, all you need to do to pass AP Physics B (which I only got a 3 but I played ping pong every day in class) is memorize a few equations

If you intend to excel at physics it's the concepts that matter most. Students who can merely manipulate equations to produce an answer can run into trouble as they advance in the subject. They tend to have the problem of not seeing the forest for the trees. Furthermore, research in the 21th C involves little work "doing the math" in the sense you describe for AP physics. The complicated math is done on computers and the physicist's role is to understand the context and relationships for the inputs and outputs.

My point was more than Sensei seemed concerned with the math and I think just knowing the equations and when to use each is most important

[Хahar 🤔]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

Only 4 classes?

Honors Chemistry
World Literature
Art I
Algebra II/Trigonometry
Spanish III
PE Weight Training (joke class, will drop)
World History

Asian school offers Asian APs/Honors classes for sophomores.

[Mart]

Not in college (senior year wooo), but here's what I got:

Honors Sociology
AP Physics B
AP Human Geography
Honors Calculus

Damn, a lot of sleepless nights await me...

Only 4 classes?
...

Yeah, my school has weird block scheduling.  4 classes per quarter, 80 minutes each.  It wasn't easy to get used to.

[Hash]

Ugh, school starts Tuesday. Ugh.

IB Biology II
IB History II (Modern Europe/Totalitarian Dictatorships)
IB English II
IB ITGS
Writers' Craft
Statistics and Data Management
International Law

[muon2]

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

No shot, all you need to do to pass AP Physics B (which I only got a 3 but I played ping pong every day in class) is memorize a few equations

If you intend to excel at physics it's the concepts that matter most. Students who can merely manipulate equations to produce an answer can run into trouble as they advance in the subject. They tend to have the problem of not seeing the forest for the trees. Furthermore, research in the 21th C involves little work "doing the math" in the sense you describe for AP physics. The complicated math is done on computers and the physicist's role is to understand the context and relationships for the inputs and outputs.

My point was more than Sensei seemed concerned with the math and I think just knowing the equations and when to use each is most important

If your goal is to get a high score on the AP, I'm afraid I have to agree that knowing the equations is the key. My point is that the AP is not entirely a good predictor of physics success, because it tends to be light on some of the conceptual material that is important beyond the introductory classes.

[DownWithTheLeft]

If your goal is to get a high score on the AP, I'm afraid I have to agree that knowing the equations is the key. My point is that the AP is not entirely a good predictor of physics success, because it tends to be light on some of the conceptual material that is important beyond the introductory classes.

Yea, obviously.  But my goal was to do good on AP Physics I didn't care about physics past that

[Jake]

SOC 320A Military and Society
SOC 100 Intro to Sociology
GNSCI 100 Physical Science
PHIL 211 Philosophy of some sort
SPAN 101 Spanish

Starting spanish, settling on a sociology major, and terrible sophomore cores=awful schedule. Lots of 100 levels should equal lots of A's though.

[Sensei]

You should concern yourself more with the math parts of Physics B than the theoretical and conceptual parts, although those hold importance too.

No shot, all you need to do to pass AP Physics B (which I only got a 3 but I played ping pong every day in class) is memorize a few equations

If you intend to excel at physics it's the concepts that matter most. Students who can merely manipulate equations to produce an answer can run into trouble as they advance in the subject. They tend to have the problem of not seeing the forest for the trees. Furthermore, research in the 21th C involves little work "doing the math" in the sense you describe for AP physics. The complicated math is done on computers and the physicist's role is to understand the context and relationships for the inputs and outputs.

My point was more than Sensei seemed concerned with the math and I think just knowing the equations and when to use each is most important

If your goal is to get a high score on the AP, I'm afraid I have to agree that knowing the equations is the key. My point is that the AP is not entirely a good predictor of physics success, because it tends to be light on some of the conceptual material that is important beyond the introductory classes.

I was only speaking in the context of the AP test, obviously the objective in more advanced work should be conceptual mastery.