Schedualing Madness(and help)
 

I got a very good call today with very good news: I finally got into an art class! Although now I have the problem that I need to drop one of my other classes this semester (because appearantly I have an overload now), but I'm not sure which one to drop.

I know this is a decision I have to make on my own, and I'm sorry to bother anyone with my little problem, but I was just wondering if any of you have any advice about what kind of schedual would work best(Especially if anyone has ever had a college-level art class, that they could advise what kind of time I'm going to need to allot for it out of class).

Here's a handy chart I made for my/your convenience.
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5817/schedualwc8.jpg
Anything red cannot be changed(at least, not without changing a major or a minor, which I don't want to do), but one of the other classes have to be dropped. (note: all of the droppable classes are classes I'm going to be required to take at some point before I graduate, so they hold equal value)

Right now I'm hovering between dropping my english or my mythology class.

My first instinct is to drop my english class, since it's right before my art class, but they're 15 minutes apart, and it's not that far of a walk. On the other hand, my mythology class is 10 minutes after my Japanese class, and it's quite a bit farther to go(added to my obsession with timelyness, I'm going to have to pretty much sprint out of my Japanese class right afterwords, which I'm not too comfortable with, since I would like to have time to stay behind and ask my professor for help if I need it)

Dropping the english class will make my tues/thurs lighter(because going non-stop from 2 until 6:15 might be a pain), but dropping my mythology class will give me absolutely no classes on friday, which would be really nice to use on projects, homework, or whatever. (especially if art requires a lot of out-of-class time)

So that sums it up. Any advice from those who are more familiar with the college schedualing thing (or those who just might have good advice) to help a sophmore in need? Thanks in advance!

Drop Health, your Tuesday/Thursday is already triple-stacked without it and I mean come on it's fucking Health, Health is always a jerkoff timewaster.

Dropping Mythology might sound like a good idea in that it gives you a completely free Friday until you end up sleeping in and getting fuck-all nothing worthwhile done every Goddamn Friday. Plus I mean it starts at 11, there's worse problems in life than having to get up by 10AM on a Friday.

I agree with Fifth on this one. But if you can't drop that one for whatever reason, then the next advice I'd give would be to drop English.

What does Soc stand for? Would I be correct in assuming Sociology?

I'm going to echo FIFTH's statement on the lazy Friday syndrome, you can too easily fall into this funk of not caring when you have a three-day weekend each week.

Do you think there's going to be a lot of writing in your Soc(iology?), English, or Mythology classes? Because if the answer to 2 out of 3 of those is yes, I'd drop one of them. Having a period of time where you have three 10+ page essays due within the next two weeks has killed a lot of my friends.

I might recommend keeping Health solely because it's nice to have an easy class during the school year. It's always nice to have a stress-free section of homework to relax your mind. Of course, if you think this new Art class would accomplish the same task, then drop Health.

You did say that everything has to be taken eventually before you graduate, so it seems like both health and english are equally valid choices. I don't know which you'd prefer more, based on whether you think this year is going to be too easy if you take out english, and whether it might be too hard if you take out health. It also might be a better idea to drop english if you'd be likely to go back to sleep after japanese if you didn't have health there. It would probably be a better ideato have your lunch break go into the afternoon, because that way you'd probably end up getting work done, instead of just crashing.

Correct. Sorry, I should have clarified.

Now that people mention it, I guess having a whole friday off may not be as wonderful as it sounds like (because I would get lazy. Plus it's only one class on Friday, not like it's going to take out a lot of time if I want to get stuff done)

Unfortunately I don't know much of anything about any of these (well, I assume there will be a lot of writing in my english, based on my previous english class). My roommate already took sociology (but with a different proffessor) so I'll ask her what it was like(although I'm not too worried, I like Sociology-type classes)

I'm halfway looking forward to my mythology class. I've always thought that mythology would be cool, although that's what I thought about astronomy before I got the worst professor in the world, so I'm hesitant about that. I am generally okay with English, although now that I think about it, 2-6 every tues/thurs, might be a little more than I need(also depends on my art class, if it is good or not)


For better reference, All of those classes that can be removed have to be taken by the time I graduate (at least similar types of classes, not necissarily THOSE classes (meaning Mythology, Health, and Sociology aren't required, but I have to have a certain amount of credits in categories that those are in(and those classes sounded the best). The only class-specific class that I have to take by the time I graduate is that English class (if all of that makes any sense)

Ha ha, yeah, Gen Eds can beget a weird selection. There was a grab bag section that included Philosophy, Intro to Film, and World Religions among other things.

You and synk bring up a good point, namely the fact that the worst class with the best teacher is infinitely better than a class with a subject you're interested in being taught by a hardass prick. If all else fails, cut the teacher with the worst rating.

That website is very interesting (first time I've seen it)
Appearantly all of the professors of my possible-cut classes are awesome and appearantly hot. XD (Other than the english one, because the prof isn't listed)

I would drop the myth. I find that having classes on a day means I get a lot less done cause I come into uni, my brain gets tired thinking about stuff ( I have a lot of conceptual lectures) and when I'm at uni I see people I know, crazy events in the quad and get dragged to the pub. If I can stay home all day I gegt all kinds of things done. Maybe that's just me.