For those of you who are starting the new courses or trying to decide on which courses to take later, here is my advice: Don't let people scare you!
I knew I had to take only a few sciences (certainly not all maths and physics), but I did. And I'm successfully completing them.
I used to go around and ask my friends and non-friends which courses should I take, which course was hard, which teacher is better, etc.
There are 2 things wrong with that:
- this is incorrectly questioned
- everything is very relative
The reason why it is incorrectly question is because the opinions are personal and the information is going to be relative. If I want to get a legitimate advice on a course, I should go speak to the teachers, read an overview of the course and then, if I want to ask questions, I better ask people:
- what are the methods of teaching used by a certain professor?
- were you using a textbook a lot in class?
etc. This is, to understand the course and judge it for yourself. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with looking up the statistics for professors (if available), but even if the data is not encouraging, try taking a step back and look at the course as another milestone that you will achieve.
For example, I was really unsure with whether I should take Pre-Kinesiology, since it includes anatomy&physiology, exercise physiology and psychology etc.; in other words, heavy material...
I went on asking students around me and the majority was saying that the content is unbearable, that you have plenty of homework, etc.
I took it. It ended up being one of my highest grades. IT IS ALL RELATIVE.
When deciding on your next courses, please don't listen to bias opinions, rather collect legitimate information from correctly posed questions!
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