So I ended up dropping Engineering Dynamics. There are a few reasons for that. Actually, I just gave away the end of my story, but trust me, I didn’t spoil anything! Read on if you’re interested 
Freshman year I took a class called Introduction to Materials, which when combined with my credits from high school for Chemistry 1 and 2, give me credit for Chemistry of Materials 2 (makes sense, right?). At the time, credit for ChemMat 2 was meaningless because I was leaning away from being a chemical engineer. However, it’s an option for the multidisciplinary elective for computer systems engineers (that’s me!).
So I took Intro to Materials first semester freshman year, and I thought I was doing horribly. Indeed I was getting C’s on the quizzes, D’s on the exams and labs, and failing the homeworks. But the thing I was doing right (that I didn’t realize at the time would be my savior) was that I was going to my professor’s office hours. Actually, I was spending an hour every Wednesday morning at 8 AM in his office going over homeworks and lectures with him. Was it helping? Sort of. More importantly I was earning brownie points which would be most helpful when the curve came around. Did I know about what curving was and the entire brownie points system at the time? Of course not. I was new.
So on the last day of class, right after I got back a D on the last test, right after a clueless day of review for the final, I filled out the pass/fail form, had a secretary in the Dept of Engineering sign it, and turned it in. I did study for the final exam, but I really only needed to “pass” the class and I was home free!
Of course here I am two years later and much wiser, needed that damned class to graduate. Technically you aren’t allowed to reverse a pass/fail. But I went and asked to reverse it, telling them that I needed the class to graduate. Without actually checking my story, the lady said ok, signed my “Remove Pass/Fail” form and sent me on my way!
So I now have credit for Introduction to Materials, and thus ChemMat 2, and therefore have fulfilled my multidisciplinary elective The next logical action was to get the hell out of Engineering Dynamics! I can now save my $1.08/min for a better cause, sleep in a bit more in the mornings, and focus more on my other classes (read as: get A’s in Abnormal Psychology and Discrete Mathematics).
I’m also still on track to graduate next Spring Still getting out of Rensselaer as planned – I like that!