A lot of us have higher GPA variances than others.
This is very interesting. Aside from specific class/professor problems, I wonder if another cause of this is the challenge of multi-tasking a variance of courses.
It might help if each semester could be structured so that it contained related or complementary courses. Or better yet, have the option of taking double credit-courses. So, a full course load of 2 or 3 intensive courses would be the same amount of hours as 5 or 6 regular courses.
I had this happen unintentionally in my sophomore year (computer engineering).
In 3 different classes (MechE, DiffEQ, and circuits) we happened to be going over very similar material from different angles (under/over/critically-damped systems).
I learned those concepts pretty well, with less effort than other quarters.
Oh yeah, this is very interesting too. Personally, I really cannot fully participate in each and every class when I’m taking 5 classes a quarter. I can only mange to do this by intensely focusing (and going to class) on 2-3 courses, and then practically skipping all the lectures for the other courses (but still managing to do quality work in them relative to the rest of the class)
This is very interesting. Aside from specific class/professor problems, I wonder if another cause of this is the challenge of multi-tasking a variance of courses.
It might help if each semester could be structured so that it contained related or complementary courses. Or better yet, have the option of taking double credit-courses. So, a full course load of 2 or 3 intensive courses would be the same amount of hours as 5 or 6 regular courses.
I had this happen unintentionally in my sophomore year (computer engineering).
In 3 different classes (MechE, DiffEQ, and circuits) we happened to be going over very similar material from different angles (under/over/critically-damped systems).
I learned those concepts pretty well, with less effort than other quarters.
Oh yeah, this is very interesting too. Personally, I really cannot fully participate in each and every class when I’m taking 5 classes a quarter. I can only mange to do this by intensely focusing (and going to class) on 2-3 courses, and then practically skipping all the lectures for the other courses (but still managing to do quality work in them relative to the rest of the class)