{"id":604,"date":"2008-01-09T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=604"},"modified":"2009-04-18T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:54:41","slug":"on-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2008\/01\/09\/on-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"On credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that I have completed 91 credits at school. I&#8217;m not exactly sure how that&#8217;s possible given that I&#8217;ve really only completed five academic semesters. It averages out to 18.2 credits a term, or ~6 courses (assuming one course = 3 credits.)<\/p>\n<p>To all the Arts students out there: I&#8217;m clearly not kidding when I say I have a heavy courseload.<\/p>\n<p>(Naturally, there is some explanation for this: many Chem courses are 4 credits, rather than 3, and I did take a couple of summer courses. If you take out the summer courses, it comes out to a much more reasonable <strong>5.7<\/strong> courses per term.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s slightly more interesting is that I have 31 transfer credits from high school and certain summer programs, so technically I have 122 credits. If getting a degree were just about accumulating credits, I could have been out of here by now. Unfortunately I also have to fulfill something called &#8220;upper-level requirements.&#8221; Alas. That&#8217;s what happens when your transfer credits are good for nothing but elective space&#8230; and you elect to fill elective space with a French minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that I have completed 91 credits at school. I&#8217;m not exactly sure how that&#8217;s possible given that I&#8217;ve really only completed five academic semesters. It averages out to 18.2 credits a term, or ~6 courses (assuming one course = 3 credits.) To all the Arts students out there: I&#8217;m clearly not kidding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}