How Difficult is College?

[Otaking]

My title is "Document Imaging Architect," so people think my name is Simon, and I like to do drawings

Hardest part about college is not giving up, if that hasn't been said yet.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: blustori
Disciplining yourself because you don't have parents telling you what to do in college. You make your own decisions. You play you pay or something like that.

Its the discipline. If you needed your parent's to make you study the first semester is going to be rough. Once you adjust it isn't bad, though.

And its a whole boatload of fun.

 

[OVERKILL]

thanks for the responses guys.

 

[clickynext]

Question: In engineering, first year, about how much homework could I expect from each hour of lecture, and each hour of lab time? I've got 25 hours scheduled per week (only one of those hours are tutorial, the rest lecture or lab). Sure hope free time is still a reality.

 

[jds2006]

Originally posted by: clickynext
Question: In engineering, first year, about how much homework could I expect from each hour of lecture, and each hour of lab time? I've got 25 hours scheduled per week (only one of those hours are tutorial, the rest lecture or lab). Sure hope free time is still a reality.

My dad majored in aerospace engineering and he told me that he spent every day of his college career in the library studying for his classes. He rarely ever got an A. Mostly B's. "An A? What is an A?"

 

[montanafan]

One thing you should look into that could make your college experience a little easier is the College Level Entrance Program (CLEP) test. If you were a decent student in high school you could CLEP out of some of the more boring time consuming general education classes that everyone is required to take. It can not only save you time, but also the money for those classes that you won't have to take because of the test. I took the test and got out of taking English 101 and 102 (lots of term papers in there) and Music Appreciation and Fine Arts classes. Saved me 12 hours of classes and tuition.

 

[mrrman]

man went I went to college we were a test group...crammed 3 years into 2 years with 7 subjects a day...if you failed one class you failed the term...that was stressfull to say the least...no time for anything else but school

 

[aiex]

I did studied at 2 colleges, one here in the UK and Boulder CO stateside. The most difficult thing stateside is the sheer volume of work. The work was seriously easy but there was an awful lot of it. Over here in the UK there is much less work but it is much harder to do. Get yourself on an exhange program if you can.

Actually the most difficult thing was not being able to legally drink for a year... damn CU with their strictness.... damn punishment essays.... damn them all..... - was the funniest essay i have ever written though

 

[shud]

College is literally impossible. Most of the graduates are frauds.

 

[skace]

Waking up and going to class were the rough parts. I mean, classes were prolly hard, but I never made it to any of them.