About those science GURs...

I have made an executive decision regarding my academic career.

My plan for my science GURs was to take the chemistry sequence and be all cool and knowledgeable about chemistry. However, while I am doing marginally well in that class (I think I’ll get away with a B-, higher if I get my act together on the final), I feel like the next two classes will get increasingly harder, and I don’t want to do that to my GPA.

While I was looking over potential classes for next quarter, I found that chem. 121 (the class I’m taking now) would fulfill a different science GUR (you can either take a full sequence, or pick and choose one class from three subjects), and I could do that and potentially not kill my GPA. So next quarter I intend to take biology 204, an introduction to evolution and ecology, and next fall I might take an astronomy course or something. I was decent at those two subjects when I was younger, so here’s hoping. I’m not bombing chem. yet (I’m actually nowhere near failing), but I feel like I don’t understand it well enough to go on and pretend as though I do. I think the GUR block that I’m going for now was specifically designed for humanities-oriented people like yours truly.

So. Yeah. I’m really glad I won’t have wasted these five credits in chemistry, and I’m also glad I figured this out soon enough to save myself from certain death (academically speaking), instead of stubbornly plunging ahead with my first plan like I usually do.