Foo - next quarter...7 classes? Anyone ever attempt this many?

So I am currently enrolled for 7 classes next quarter, 21 credit hours. I added a class that was closed and it put me to this god awfully high number of classes. It's a mix between easy intros and a few upper levels. Should I even bother to fulfill all 7 at once? It would be stellar if I did, it would knock off many requirements in that one quarter...

wow. and I thought I had a heavy load at 17 credits......

I would drope one. Seriously.

I've taken 31 credits before, but I couldn't handle it, so I droped a class bringing my hours down to 27

This guy did, but in the end, it worked out okay for him.

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It's like THE 3 foosters, the three that responded immediately to this post, go figure. Well I did 15 this quarter and should have a GPA of around 3.6. Eh, maybe I am biting too much off...

I've taken 31 credits before, but I couldn't handle it, so I droped a class bringing my hours down to 27

how many classes?

how many classes?

about 5 million, but it wasn't a normal college thing. I was taking two regular classes and then the rest were classes from my tech ed program. 7 classes seems like a huge amount. I'm taking 4 next semester and I'm ok with that.

I once took 16 or 17 credits (5 classes) while working full time. The only way I was able to do it was that the math class I took was so easy for me that I asked the prof if I could test out somehow, and he said he'd give me the remaining 3 tests & the final at the testing center. I took all 4 tests in 2 sessions and only missed one question.

I am taking 17 credits now and will be doing 18 next semester. It's not that bad. The RA on my floor is taking 22....

I'm taking 17.5/5 classes next semester. IMO it has more to do with how hard the classes are, but 21 is still a lot.

No, I never took that many classes. I don't see the point. Are you in some sort of hurry to finish school? Compared to real life, school was awesome. Take your time, I say.

Enjoy your time at school. I took 18 credits one semester, had a full time job and worked in the lab. Social life sucked. It's really not worth it unless you mind having a crappy life.

Meh. Back in my day, you were expected to take 21 credits for the first three semesters. Back then, the concept of paying for another year to make it easier never dawned on any of us. We just HTFUed, worked hard, and drank heavily.

(Note: I'll have you know I graduated in the top 2/3 of my class.)

Let's see 15 credits from five classes of 3 crediits each. One language with lab 4 credits. One 3 credit video course that you do by your lonesome. So I guess 22 was my max. No biggie.

Do you work? 21 hours should be fine if it's all you're doing.

I wouldn't do 21 hours plus a job.

It's like THE 3 foosters, the three that responded immediately to this post, go figure. Well I did 15 this quarter and should have a GPA of around 3.6. Eh, maybe I am biting too much off...

Did you have trouble handling 15?

Personally, I had a hard time managing 19 and usually dropped back to 13 or 14. (Most of my classes are engineering and science based, though; one of the dropped classes was a Chemistry course and the other two were Humanities.) Even with that considered, I still spent a lot of time trying to get good grades on those classes, sacrificed a lot of my social life and still struggled...but that's just me.

If you had any hard time managing 15, I would give second thought to tackling that course load. Most of my fellow students that are doing 20+ compromise their social life to make amends. If you already understand that, then go for it.

NOTE: He might not be in a hurry to graduate; some students here do that so that they can also graduate with a Master's degree at the same time.

I had 21units, a part-time job, and a social life on a semester system and was perfectly fine (also a mix of easy and hard classes). Would strongly not recommend it on a quarter system, but ymmv. Test your limits first--if 15 was easy for you, try 18 next, and start working your way up.

i had 25+ credit hours and a full time job and never took a summer break. ended up with 3 years worth of credits in 1.5 years. also ended up dropping out because i couldnt take it.

i was in a course that was supposed to take 6 years and took way to much at once. I would recommend against it honestly.

I had 21units, a part-time job, and a social life on a semester system and was perfectly fine (also a mix of easy and hard classes). Would strongly not recommend it on a quarter system, but ymmv. Test your limits first--if 15 was easy for you, try 18 next, and start working your way up.

Everyone is different in this regard. I know one person who consistently takes 24+ credits a term, a mix of undergraduate and graduate courses, works part-time and still has time to spare to hang out with his friends. I also know another guy who was taking 32 credits, and I have not seen him in at least a year or so...

I've taken 31 credits before, but I couldn't handle it, so I droped a class bringing my hours down to 27Oh yeah? I graduated from a four-year university in one semester, after taking every single course I needed all at once!

...err, wait, this isn't the one-up thread?

Seven classes? Oh, let's see if I remember what I usually took...

Band - 1 hr
Wind Ensemble - 1
Jazz Band - 1
Private lessons - 2 (perf major)
Brass quintet - 1
Piano - 1
Music Theory - 2
Music History - 3
Sight Singing/Ear Training - 2

THEN some core classes, like a science lab at 5 hrs plus Econ at 3 hrs, or college algebra (a shakedown course if I ever saw one) and German. In later years, replace music theory and sight singing with stuff like flute/double reed techniques and clarinet/sax.

That's up to NINE music classes in any one semester, plus the extra stuff to make me a more well-rounded individual (in theory, anyway :p). Funny enough that the things marked at one hour each often took the most of my time. The general studies classes hardly required anything of me outside of maybe a final paper just because they were so easy for me.

It's like THE 3 foosters, the three that responded immediately to this post, go figure. Well I did 15 this quarter and should have a GPA of around 3.6. Eh, maybe I am biting too much off...

What classes are you enrolled for?

I took 20 credits with a full time job, not fun, and unless you have a good reason for it, probably not worth it.

Did 18 hours getting my EE degree. On the down side was the timing of tests one semester with a test Thursday night and then two tests Friday morning. That happened every four weeks. Nothing that heavy drinking couldn't cure by Friday afternoon.

i've always been too slow a learner and worker for that. i took 15 hours my first semester, but after thati stuck to 12. i'm just not enough of a machine to churn work out like that. i always find people that can do that amazing.

I have a bunch of friends who attend the U of R and RIT who are getting smashed by 15-18 credit hours. 21 would be an overdose of learning.

Everyone is different in this regard. I know one person who consistently takes 24+ credits a term, a mix of undergraduate and graduate courses, works part-time and still has time to spare to hang out with his friends. I also know another guy who was taking 32 credits, and I have not seen him in at least a year or so...

It also depends on what system you're on. I did fine with 18-23 on a semester system w/ job and life, but can't handle more than 15 on a quarter system without sacrificing either my job, my social life or my sanity. Again, ymmv.

I took a very relaxed number of credits this semester (12) partly because I took all my intro classes and I needed to fill pre-reqs, and partly because I wasn't really motivated until right after the semester started.

Next semester I have 15 credits right now. My school charges a ton for each hour over 17, so if I can find a 2-credit class I'll take it.

Keep in mind I am a IT major, so even though I don't graduate with a CS degree I still put in the 20 hours a week programming.

Did 18 hours getting my EE degree... Nothing that heavy drinking couldn't cure by Friday afternoon.

Isn't engineering school great for teaching you how to hold your liquor? :roflmao2:

don't

youth is too precious to rush it beyond 15 credits

don't

youth is too precious to rush it beyond 15 credits

I need 131 credits to graduate from my college. It would not be possible to graduate in 4 years taking no more than 15 per semester.

^^^

Or doing summer school. (Which really isn't that bad, unless you're a fiend for summer vacation. I personally dislike them.)

You just described this semester for me!

I took 18 hrs, and worked as a Lab assistant, and never again. :(


Enjoy your time at school. I took 18 credits one semester, had a full time job and worked in the lab. Social life sucked. It's really not worth it unless you mind having a crappy life.

Sure, 21 credits every quarter, 9 classes every quarter, for four years, non-stop.

Music major: I would have tons of .5 and 1 credit classes that were far, far more work than 4 or 5 credit general classes. I started my day with class at 7:45am and didn't finish the day until 10:30pm, 5 days a week, plus crap on Saturday.

I work and just did 15 hours...i carry a 3.7 gpa and am testing the waters to do more. I would take my time but I want to move on to grad school and am tired of dealing with immature 18-22 year olds everyday of my life in undergrad. It's a sh*t ton of classes, 7, but wtf...htfu is what i am thinking...

I am currently taking what I thought would be my last two classes for my bachelors degree, and am in the second to last week. It turns out I have one prerequisite from the very beginning I never took (but aced all the classes I needed it for), so Im taking that at community college next semester with a writing class Im taking for fun so I can graduate in March. It only took me 16 years to graduate college. My mom took about 30, so I figure i could do it in half the time she did ROFL.

I work and just did 15 hours...i carry a 3.7 gpa and am testing the waters to do more. I would take my time but I want to move on to grad school and am tired of dealing with immature 18-22 year olds everyday of my life in undergrad. It's a sh*t ton of classes, 7, but wtf...htfu is what i am thinking...

ROFLMAO. As a Grad School student, if youre like many, you'll be TAing or GAing and youll work with the 18-22 yr olds even more!

If I could do 16 while working 40 hours a week, there is a reasonable chance that you can handle it.

I work and just did 15 hours...i carry a 3.7 gpa and am testing the waters to do more. I would take my time but I want to move on to grad school and am tired of dealing with immature 18-22 year olds everyday of my life in undergrad. It's a sh*t ton of classes, 7, but wtf...htfu is what i am thinking...are you in a hurry? Are you a non-traditional student?
I agree with Mirona: enjoy your college time while you can.
Why not just add one more class, and test that out?

If you really are going to take that many, try to stay realistic throughout the semester. Keep a close eye on grades, and drop dates to get all or some of your money back- and be aware of processes for taking an incomplete and finishing at a later date.

Does your school offer a winterim or something because that's an arshload...21 creds? I'll give you cred for attempting, but that could be fatal

Most I ever carried was 21 credit hours. But that counted intercollegiate swimming as only one credit hour.

Mondays were bad as I nominally had classes from 8 to 3:30 with just lunch off. Swimming workout from 3-5 and a 3 hour lab after that.

Most of the time I had 19 hours. But one time that consisted of Sedimentary Petrology, Physics (I think, don't remember which, likely mechanics) and Non-major Organic Chemistry. Took non-majors because majors was 2 labs per week and as it was I had 4 labs a week for 12 hours of lab time, just couldn't handle 15 hours of labs, plus class and intercollegiate athletics.

I am non-trad student...I am in a hurry to knock off "gen ed" sh*t so I can take more classes I like. If I knock out this 21 creds (should have pointed out, it's quarter system) then I will be pretty complete with "gen ed". Here's the nice part my job is a night job making pizzas which means that during the week I do nothing at work (much of my school work gets done at work, *nice part*), it sucks because I am up till 4 or 5am but hey I am young and have managed on little or no sleep for 2 years now. I just wanted to see if anyone thought me crazy, because I did for a moment, I will try it out and see if I can handle it.

I am non-trad student...I am in a hurry to knock off "gen ed" sh*t so I can take more classes I like. If I knock out this 21 creds (should have pointed out, it's quarter system) then I will be pretty complete with "gen ed". Here's the nice part my job is a night job making pizzas which means that during the week I do nothing at work (much of my school work gets done at work, *nice part*), it sucks because I am up till 4 or 5am but hey I am young and have managed on little or no sleep for 2 years now. I just wanted to see if anyone thought me crazy, because I did for a moment, I will try it out and see if I can handle it.

If you took all your GenEds as a Freshman you would be in my boat: now I can take 15+ hours of all major classes per semester, but no padding, so if you're doing additional studying and learning outside class, you're working literally almost 24/7.

I think 14 or 15 credit hours was the most I've ever taken. In that case some of the credits may have been a field trip type of class (Tropical Biology in Belize for a week, or Geology of the Canyon Country in Utah for a week).

Generally I stick to 12 credits per semester. That's probably why it's taking me 7 years to get a 4 year degree!

This semester was my easiest yet. 12 credits, 3 was Cooperative Education. I got 3 credits for my p/t job as a GIS tech at the BLM office. My other classes were super easy: GPS for GIS, English II, Computer Applications in Geology (mostly GIS).

I finish my semester this morning by giving a 15 minute presentation for my GIS class.

Next semester I'm taking 13 credits and I'll graduate in May 2009 with a BS in geology and a minor in GIS.

My record was on a trimester (shorter than regular semester):

- 4 concentration classes of 4 credits each (16 credits)
- 4 Laboratories for the above @ 1 cr each (4 credits)
- 2 regular classes of 3 cr each (6 credits)

For a Grand Total of 26 Credits.

I managed to pull it of, earning 4.0 (perfect grades) on each and every one. But I will never attempt that again...evah! I was @ school from 8am to 10pm... I had no life.

I took 20 credits once on a quarter system, along with directed research, playing a sport and a job.

It is definitely doable but there are a few things I took from it. One, I had to schedule myself pretty tightly which left little down time. Secondly, I would say that I remember the least from that quarter. I was constantly on the edge for assignments and keeping on top of everything that I didn't really absorb things as permanently.

Just so you know, your peer group is not going to get any more mature. I would take an easier courseload and try to find groups in your city to get involved with. You will discover that even there are plenty of 'older, wiser' folks that are plenty immature and annoying. It's not age-specific....this is something it took me a long time to figure out.