How many of you have taken summer classes in college? What were your experiences like? Please read details.
Which courses did you take? How many credits were they, and how long did they last? How tough were they to take over the summer? What's the max load you'd recommend? I'm thinking of taking some gen ed's online over the summer that would equal 11 credits, but the classes are somewhat spaced out, so I think I might be okay.
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Posted by atadir Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:21PM
took a couple of easy electives. on a 6-week semester, that was all the load i could handle.
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Posted by SpilledSecrets Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:14PM
I took a couple of literature classes in the summer to catch up on my hours. Otherwise i wouldn't have been able to graduate on time.
I thought it was a good experience overall. Taking a few during the summer lightened my work load during normal school hours so I felt better paced - and I didn't have to move all my stuff out of the campus apartments.
It was more work, though. It was every day, instead of every other day, and my classes were online so it was constant reading and writing.
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Posted by dskdw25q9n Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:14PM
It is OK, if you have nothing distracting you. Traditionally, students might take electives in summer school because nobody cares about electives, anyway, except that they are required. You know. Foreign language courses; art and music courses. Stuff that is required but doesn't matter.
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Posted by Sbgf225 Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:13PM
Last summer I took an intro to bio class(8weeks) it was approx 4 hours Mon-Thurs. I probably could have handled one more class maybe but it was intense. Anything over 8 would be awful hard. My $.02
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Posted by littleone7733 Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:12PM
I'm too old to remember what the subject was. I only took one summer session class while in college. It was the summer between my junior and senior yrs. I do remember why I took it. My girlfriend and I didn't want to return home for the summer, we wanted to remain down on campus so we each took one course that we "had" to have.
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Posted by dangerbabe Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:12PM
I took summer spanish, it was 6 weeks and 6 credits, pretty brutal. Like 6 hours a day. But I really didnt want to take my foreign language and it at least knocked it out quickly.
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