4 hour classes are not my thing

zokudu

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This guy just keeps talking. Jesus last time I take a 4 hour night class. :colbert:
 

Oil

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1.5 hour classes were torture. I can't imagine what a 4 hour class would be like
 

Imp

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Most I had to do were 3 hour classes... Thank god. I wanted to kill myself by hour 2 most of the time.
 

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Most I had to do were 3 hour classes... Thank god. I wanted to kill myself by hour 2 most of the time.

I know exactly what you mean. Even when taking a break 75-80 minutes in, i still want to off myself at the 2 hr mark. what's worse is when the class is coming to the end and the prof tries to rush through stuff and goes over time.
 

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I had a 3 hour class on film, 7 - 10pm I think. Winter, hot room, turn off lights, watch old B&W flicks for 2+ hours on little old tv at front of class. Needless to say 2/3 of the class were snoring by the time the lights came on.
 

zokudu

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Woohoo he's finishing up. On my way home in like 5 minutes.
 

Via

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I've only done one - traffic school.

And, yes - it was absolute torture.
 

Imp

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I know exactly what you mean. Even when taking a break 75-80 minutes in, i still want to off myself at the 2 hr mark. what's worse is when the class is coming to the end and the prof tries to rush through stuff and goes over time.

No, the worst is when the class is coming to and end, and the professor knows that you have nothing to do later because it's a night class that's suppose to end at 9pm, so he f*cking goes over by half an hour.... FML.
 

Imp

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I did 8hr days (4hr lecture 4hr lab), 5 days a week for 2 years. Fun Stuff.

I forgot about those... I did some summer "intensive" courses. One was 6 hours every weekend for 2 months. The other was 4 straight 6 hour days... FML.
 

zinfamous

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I had one or two 4 hour classes every semester.

I also minored in film....



I suppose it depends on what happens in those 4 hours.
3 hour biochem classes sucked balls, though.
 

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How does that work? You'd have no offline time to process what you were being taught.

Ohhhh, there was plenty of time. One 3 or 4 hour session was titled "bar room physics" - It's amazing how many physics experiments/demonstrations you can do in a bar. Imagine 30-40 physics majors, all tuning wine glasses to resonate at the same frequency, then simultaneously rubbing our fingers on them. The rest of the (very busy) bar went dead silent. (That was used as an unwinding session half-way through the course.)
 

xanis

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The majority of my classes were 3 and 6 hours long. The worst days were Fridays... 8:30am - 7:00pm with about 30 mins in the middle of the day for lunch.
 

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Back when I started teaching at the University of Ottawa, the training seminar for new faculty members emphasized that 80 minutes is the maximum time before attention and retention drop dramatically.
 

Imp

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Back when I started teaching at the University of Ottawa, the training seminar for new faculty members emphasized that 80 minutes is the maximum time before attention and retention drop dramatically.

Psh... screw learning. Just collect the damn tuition, plow the kids through the class, and bring in another bunch. Turn-key operation...
 

DrPizza

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The majority of my classes were 3 and 6 hours long. The worst days were Fridays... 8:30am - 7:00pm with about 30 mins in the middle of the day for lunch.

And this, kids, is why you get your ass out of bed and register for next semester's classes by 7:00:10am when registration opens at 7am. Get it all ready to submit & submit as quickly as you can. Then, you don't end up with horrible schedules. If you're really, really good, you can sometimes manage hell days on Mon & Wed, with just some morning classes on Friday, and no classes on Tues and Thurs.