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Hannah
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How can you find the best/most interest classes to take, once you arrive at college?
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Scott Rompf
Senior Technical Consulting Engineer at AT&T
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Speak to a Consoler at the College or even at your high School. I didn't and took 2 semesters of classes that I didn't enjoy and didn't take me in the direction of my major. What a waste of my time and money.
Fiwany Wijaya
Sophomore Food Science Student
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A good tip from a current student is to start exploring classes early. Every university has a course catalog that lists all of the classes that the university offers for the semester (and you can also look into previous semesters & years), along with the description, outcome for students who take the class and the professor who is teaching the course. You may also be able to find a syllabus along with it sometimes; these are useful to get to know the format of the assignments for the course and to see whether the class work fits into your schedule. You can do a quick google search of "X university course catalog fall 2020" and it will probably be the first link.
Another advice would be to reach out to upperclassmen in the college you are interested in/is attending. Introduce yourself and ask if they have any course recommendations for the field you are interested in or their favorite course that they have taken so far. I have received quite a number of recommended fun classes from speaking with seniors in my college and then looking them up on the course catalog, checking the professor's rating on https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ and also talking to my counselor.
Another advice would be to reach out to upperclassmen in the college you are interested in/is attending. Introduce yourself and ask if they have any course recommendations for the field you are interested in or their favorite course that they have taken so far. I have received quite a number of recommended fun classes from speaking with seniors in my college and then looking them up on the course catalog, checking the professor's rating on https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ and also talking to my counselor.
Nicole Baillie
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Hi Hannah S. I see that you posted this question a little while ago so I hope my answer to you (or others who may read this response) is still helpful.
Sharing a couple ways that I used to find interesting classes 1)Because my major was very technical, I looked for classes that had nothing to do with math or science or physics. I ended up taking a few language classes. 2)After my first year, I asked others about the classes that they were taking to understand if those were subjects that would be interesting to me. 3)By the time I got to the last semester of my senior year, I had completed most of my "hard classes", which gave me room to take a course or two in subjects that were far removed from what I was required to take.
I hope these methods are helpful and best of luck to you!
Sharing a couple ways that I used to find interesting classes 1)Because my major was very technical, I looked for classes that had nothing to do with math or science or physics. I ended up taking a few language classes. 2)After my first year, I asked others about the classes that they were taking to understand if those were subjects that would be interesting to me. 3)By the time I got to the last semester of my senior year, I had completed most of my "hard classes", which gave me room to take a course or two in subjects that were far removed from what I was required to take.
I hope these methods are helpful and best of luck to you!