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Episode 202: Tips to Create Your Best Schedule
Now that you know which courses you want to take your first semester, it is time to create your best schedule. When creating a schedule there are many factors to think about as you pick your class times and days. ESS’s Sharon Mueller, Director of Advising and Policy, and Kathy Barrett, Associate Director of Advising, join us for Episode 202: Tips to Create Your Best Schedule. They are here to discuss reserve caps, waitlists, shopping/dropping classes, how many courses to take, and time between classes.
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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer, we are in the second episode of our second season and I never thought I would say that about anything I was doing.
SHARON MUELLER: We got renewed!
KATHY BARRETT: They really like us.
LV: I’m so excited that we’re bringing new content to our new students. I’m your host, Laura Vogt, the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services and today I’ve been invited back, Engineering Student Services Director of Advising and Policy, Sharon Mueller and the Associate Director of Advising, Kathy Barrett. Welcome to the podcast!
SM: And we have to promise the students that we’re not going to be the same people every week. They will get to hear from other people.
LV: Today we’re going over scheduling and what a great schedule might look like. And I know not everyone’s great schedule is going to be the same. I like doing early morning classes and I know there’s a lot of people who don’t. But I think there’s some key factors that everyone should think about when doing their schedules. So let’s start off with during GBA, we’ve asked all of our students to do backup courses that we want them to have some backups. Why are we asking them for backups?
SM: Yeah it’s actually really important because on the day of enrollment all transfer students are enrolling the same day. And for freshmen all freshmen on campus are enrolling in the same day. So that means that space in classes is going to be changing really quickly. And so it
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Now that you know which courses you want to take your first semester, it is time to create your best schedule. When creating a schedule there are many factors to think about as you pick your class times and days. ESS’s Sharon Mueller, Director of Advising and Policy, and Kathy Barrett, Associate Director of Advising, join us for Episode 202: Tips to Create Your Best Schedule. They are here to discuss reserve caps, waitlists, shopping/dropping classes, how many courses to take, and time between classes.
Important Links
Episode transcript
LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer, we are in the second episode of our second season and I never thought I would say that about anything I was doing.
SHARON MUELLER: We got renewed!
KATHY BARRETT: They really like us.
LV: I’m so excited that we’re bringing new content to our new students. I’m your host, Laura Vogt, the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services and today I’ve been invited back, Engineering Student Services Director of Advising and Policy, Sharon Mueller and the Associate Director of Advising, Kathy Barrett. Welcome to the podcast!
SM: And we have to promise the students that we’re not going to be the same people every week. They will get to hear from other people.
LV: Today we’re going over scheduling and what a great schedule might look like. And I know not everyone’s great schedule is going to be the same. I like doing early morning classes and I know there’s a lot of people who don’t. But I think there’s some key factors that everyone should think about when doing their schedules. So let’s start off with during GBA, we’ve asked all of our students to do backup courses that we want them to have some backups. Why are we asking them for backups?
SM: Yeah it’s actually really important because on the day of enrollment all transfer students are enrolling the same day. And for freshmen all freshmen on campus are enrolling in the same day. So that means that space in classes is going to be changing really quickly. And so it