The difficult thing with getting the breadths out of the way is that it forces you to take either:
- 4 technicals your upperclassmen years (difficult) or
- 3 techs plus one unnecessary class (which will more than likely be a humanities class or a DeCal anyway)
since L&S has a 13 unit minimum.
It is however, nice not having to worry about humanities stuff (since I'm doing the former option) and I get to enjoy reading for fun outside of class without the nagging feeling that I should be reading for class. Incase you were looking for some schedule guidance, I added mine below, along with some comments about how I would redo it. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.
I tested out of R&C-A, foreign language, and qualitative reasoning.
Freshman Fall: Math 54, Social Breadth, History Breadth, DeCal (non-major Upper Div units)
Freshman Spring: Math 53, Math 55, Philosophy Breadth (4 more Upper Div units), Arts&Lit Breadth (also A/C req)
Freshman Summer: R&C-B, CS61A
Sophomore Fall: Math 113, Math 128A, CS61B, Bio Breadth
Sophomore Spring: Math 104, Math 110, CS61C, EE16A
Personally, I hate mandatory long(, computational) problem sets, so if I could do it again, I'd delay EE16A/B for as long as possible. That is, unless you like computational problem sets, in which case I recommend you take your first math upper divs as soon as possible because the computaion flies out of the window pretty quickly after the math 50 series.
Also, as a personal bias, I highly recommend delaying 61A until the summer and 61B until the fall. You'll be behind your peers in your graduating class, but Hilfinger's 61B singlehandedly made me fall in love with CS because of its perfect balance of theoretical CS in lecture and extremely fun projects. Also I personally think Kevin Lin (who taught 61A in the summer I took it) is a superb teacher (probably one of the best ones I've had so far). I hear DeNero and Hug are great professors too, but I don't have experience with them and Hug's 61B emphasizes tests/exams more.