How much work is college?

[stev0]

college isn't bad. whats bad is building up your tolerance 😛 i hope ya know how to hit a beer bong kiddo 😀😛

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
You can skate your way through college, or you can work your way through college. Either way, you are going to be working like a bitch for the rest of your life.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I'm wondering how much work is required in college... Do they require hours of work everyday like high school?

If you thought high school was hard, don't go to college.... you won't make it. Sorry.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Broohaha

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: Mltsao The reason why people hate to get up for those earlier 8am classes is because teenagers and people in their lower twenties have a different biological clock. They tend to be more active at night and sleep later.

is there a research on this??

i remember hearing research on this, yes. wouldnt know where to find it though.

I think I saw that research.... but I would think a big factor is that you want to do stuff when other people are awake, and by the evening, everyone is awake, so you start doing stuff... which ends up going on until late at night (or ends in the early evening and then you have to do homework until late), so you don't want to wake up early. And, of course, you want to do stuff after classes, not before them, or everyone could sleep at 7pm and wake up at 3am.

 

[BeauJangles]

The hardest part of an IVy is getting in. From there, honestly, if you are a good student that is self-motivated, it's pretty easy.

 

[DougK62]

If you had to spend hours a day in high school then you are not going to have an easy time at University...

 

[ScottyB]

Like 2 or 3 hours outside of class each week. I wish I went somewhere harder.

 

[CFster]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I'm wondering how much work is required in college... Do they require hours of work everyday like high school?

If you thought high school was hard, don't go to college.... you won't make it. Sorry.

 

[silverpig]

I had 8:30 am classes all first year. It blew. My second year I scheduled them for like 11 am and I was good.

An art history degree with 11 am starts will be a breeze, a chemical engineering honours degree with 8:30 am starts will be tough.

 

[mooglekit]

Okay, if you had trouble with HS...like people said..may not be for you...
I slept through HS (pulled a 3.9...dammit, coulda been higher if I had only cared about my education like I do now..😀isgust😉
Can't sleep through college...well, okay ca, but results wouldn't be pretty. If you don't want to work hard and gain something from your education, it's not worth the money to go.

moogs

 

[Lager]

It sucks that I will have to take General Education courses (like high school courses with no homework) all over again! 🙁

 

[StageLeft]

Depends on the school. Not to brag but the university I went to required a certain amount of work to pass that would get you an A+ in at least one of the local "schools" in birmingham. I proof read a paper for a friend a few months ago that would have gotten me a C in highschool and a D- in university and the guy got a freaking A- or something similarly ridiculous. Too be frank the guy can't write. It looks like he's read all of 2000 words since graduating highschool and never received much in the way of formal writing and yet his vomitous on the page rewarded him with grades that SHOULD befit real effort.

Different schools = different standards, which in turn require different amounts of work to meet.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: DougK62
If you had to spend hours a day in high school then you are not going to have an easy time at University...

Well, my teachers give a ton of homework and they suck. Some of them talk about TV shows with the girls the first half of the period, not to mention missing 20 minutes of class because of them being late. Two of my teachers were late to class and we have lunch inbetween those two classes, they were late coming back too. We never got through the notes, let alone get them on the overhead and she never did example problems. So there is a difference in teachers....

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I'm wondering how much work is required in college... Do they require hours of work everyday like high school?

If you thought high school was hard, don't go to college.... you won't make it. Sorry.

Well, its not really hard, its just very time consuming when your teachers don't go over everything and spend half the class discussing tv shows and then missing 20 minutes of class since they're always late. The high school I go to is a pretty tough one too... get a 3.0 puts you in bottom half of class, very competetive. Oh yeah, thats unweighted. Our top 25 people are usually like 40 people that got 4.0's. They don't even weigh in AP or honors courses....

 

[johnjohn320]

Man, look at all the college kids whining about 8 AM classes.

I'm in class by 6:45.

 

[Lager]

I thought college would be like Animal House?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Man, look at all the college kids whining about 8 AM classes.

I'm in class by 6:45.

Well for us the earliest were at 8:30. In many cases it was science students who got those classes and the arts majors generally had much later classes. We were always jealous of them because they could stay up late and then show up for their 10:00 classes and they were done at 2:00 without a 3 hour lab ending at supper time.

Oh well now we're the ones with jobs, so I guess it was worth it 😛

 

[edro]

I have had 4 7am classes for my degree.... and a sh!tload of 8am classes...

 

[GregGreen]

word
with my freshman schedule this year, i have three classes on monday and wednesday starting at 2 and ending at 5:15
tuesday thursday i have one class at 1030 and one at 2
and friday i have two classes starting at 2 and ending at 4
word.....

 

[Chaotic42]

Don't you study 2 hours per day, even during the summer? One of two things will happen. Either you'll breeze through college because of your superior work ethic, or you'll get burned out when you get there, if not before.

What do you want to major in? What do you want to do?

 

[Gibson486]

As an engineer, I was b urnt my freshman year. To make it worse, I was on the quarter system. Both my roommates (one business, one architecture) also complained, by my archtecture roommate had it easy in the beginning and my business roommate claims business is hard. Architectire got hard hard because of teh amount of work in teh third quarter, but business still baffles me. My business roommate was conmplaining and bitching about how hard Managerial accounting is and how he did physics 3 in high school. I did far more homework than both my roommates did combined during teh course of teh whole year and both still mananged to get better grades than me. I hate Chem 2, physics 3 is a bitch, and calc3 had me working my ass (Taylor series had me running in circles).

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Man, look at all the college kids whining about 8 AM classes.

I'm in class by 6:45.

Well for us the earliest were at 8:30. In many cases it was science students who got those classes and the arts majors generally had much later classes. We were always jealous of them because they could stay up late and then show up for their 10:00 classes and they were done at 2:00 without a 3 hour lab ending at supper time.

Oh well now we're the ones with jobs, so I guess it was worth it 😛

your labs ended at dinner? A lot of ours are from 6pm-8pm or 6pm-9pm :Q

 

[cavemanmoron]

2 years ago i took a class at the local community college,
it was an 8am starting class,
I got an "A" in the class,and it was a little bit of work.
The class was on Diesel Engines,and i had not taken any courses in 20 years.

I did better than 50%+ of the guys,who were mostly average age 20.
the younger people,many lack the discipline,to do the homework,study,and get some regular sleep,
like at least 6 hours.

If you want to "Party" your not going to get grades that are as good,as if you study.

BTW, after the class,i still had to go to my job,and work 8 hours,and some days 10-12hours.

Plus all the normal crap,with owning a home,mow the lawn,etc.

You can get good grades,if you put some effort into it,
if your not sure,how much of a schedule you can handle,try a local college,part time the first year.
That will help a lot,for you to see,what amount of stress/workload you can handle.

Best of Luck!

 

[rh71]

I took Japanese 101 my freshman year in college... 8-9am + M-F on the "other" campus so I had to wake up every single day that semester at 630am to catch the shuttle over in time. At least it was 5 credit hours. It was a ton of work and memorization everyday. At least I met a good friend in that class and we're still friends 8 years later.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Man, look at all the college kids whining about 8 AM classes.

I'm in class by 6:45.

Well for us the earliest were at 8:30. In many cases it was science students who got those classes and the arts majors generally had much later classes. We were always jealous of them because they could stay up late and then show up for their 10:00 classes and they were done at 2:00 without a 3 hour lab ending at supper time.

Oh well now we're the ones with jobs, so I guess it was worth it 😛

Well, they may be done with class, but that's not the end of it. I know music majors (like what I want to be) would probably spend much of that time practicing (4-6 hours a day seems to be the normal amount of practice time for music majors at most universities).