People saying "School work takes up all of my time"

[NutBucket]

hey asswipe, i sent you a friend request a few weeks ago. Why u no accept.?

busy studying...

zing!

 

[OverVolt]

Girls study with a high degree of conscientiousness. They study every little detail, dot every i and cross every t. They do not pass exams through intelligence and critical thinking but through mass memorization.

Alot of my classes reflect this in how the class is structured. There is definitely a reason 5 girls get a college degree for every 3 guys. Even my pure science classes like "CHEM345" PChem is about 70% girls. 10 years ago it was probably 80% guys. Although the two exams as your only grade tends to demolish them without busy work lulz.

Computers are probably the last bastion in college where you can rely on your IQ and to hell with contentiousness. Everywhere else college has become a parroting back details contest with ALOT of busywork. If I were a business I would seriously not hire any college grads, they are morons. No wonder they all use the catch-22 experience conundrum lmao.

 

[Sluggo]

Well. My schedule is, class at 8. goes till 12, 2 hour break for lunch and meeting with professor for my research, class from 2-4, 2 hour study break till 6, go to a club from 6-10. Get home at 11, then 11-12 of relax.

What kind of club? If you are talking nightclub, that sounds like an awesome schedule.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

What kind of club? If you are talking nightclub, that sounds like an awesome schedule.

Nah. Work club. Building shit for a competition, it's not "fun", just tons of work. Fun later on though.

 

[Exterous]

some people just are not effective at efficient time management. 5 minutes here, there, of ineffective working adds up very quickly to losing hours of time per day because they are spending time updating their facebook/twitter while browsing "Quickly" through everyone else's status updates.

Or they just have no idea what taking up all their free time really means. For example take this post below:

Well. My schedule is, class at 8. goes till 12, 2 hour break for lunch and meeting with professor for my research, class from 2-4, 2 hour study break till 6, go to a club from 6-10. Get home at 11, then 11-12 of relax.

So yeah, my day sucks.

Back in my day the schedule was like this:
Class 8-12. Lunch 12-1. Class 1-4. Work 4:30-9:30. Project work 10pm-2am

And God help us if it was the month of review time. We got more sleeping done in class than at home (and I'd never slept through a class before i joined the program). I drove home from school at 4am Monday morning more times than I like to remember. There were people who went days at school without going home (There were showers and lockers in our buidling)

The best part was at the end of all of this you had to stand up and defend your project in front of 3 random professionals from the area. You could have spent hundreds of dollars and weeks worth of work perfecting your models, painstakingly rendering accurate 3D representations and they could spend the entire time talking about that little concept model you threw together in 5 minutes out of scrap. Or they could just as easily rip your project to shreds.

And this was uphill in the snow - both ways

 

[OverVolt]

Or they just have no idea what taking up all their free time really means. For example take this post below:



Back in my day the schedule was like this:
Class 8-12. Lunch 12-1. Class 1-4. Work 4:30-9:30. Project work 10pm-2am

And God help us if it was the month of review time. We got more sleeping done in class than at home (and I'd never slept through a class before i joined the program). I drove home from school at 4am Monday morning more times than I like to remember. There were people who went days at school without going home (There were showers and lockers in our buidling)

The best part was at the end of all of this you had to stand up and defend your project in front of 3 random professionals from the area. You could have spent hundreds of dollars and weeks worth of work perfecting your models, painstakingly rendering accurate 3D representations and they could spend the entire time talking about that little concept model you threw together in 5 minutes out of scrap. Or they could just as easily rip your project to shreds.

And this was uphill in the snow - both ways

Institutionalized schools do better with guys. I know it sucks but that is the point.

 

[irishScott]

Maybe you should apply to a better program.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Yeah, I'd have to say I disagree. Doing my Bachelor's I was only taking 17 credit hours a semester but combined with working 20-40 hour weeks and doing all the usual housework things (laundry, cleaning, cooking for the week, dishes, grocery shopping, all that usual jazz) I didn't have a lot of free time. (Though I still typically reserved Thursday night).

Now that I'm doing my Masters, I'm only taking an average course load for my university (6 credit hours a semester). Combined with now working 50-70 hour weeks and even more house work, I hardly have any more free time than I did before (Haven't even pulled the plastic off my copy of Forza 4 and I bought that on Black Friday.)

 

[StinkyPinky]

People that say that are either soft or don't know what the real world is like. My wife studies full time, works nearly full time, and looks after two kids. So I just roll my eyes when I hear some teen saying how hard their study is. Yeah sure.

 

[Meghan54]

I've known some nurses and they sure as hell spend lots of time studying and doing homework. The communications/human resource/business majors were at the parties. Too bad because the nurses are more fun to party with.

I've completed two undergrad degrees....nursing and journalism. *And while the journalism degree required much more library/research time, I had tons more free time compared to getting my nursing degree. *So much so that I had a full time evening job during the time I got my journalism degree but could rarely work while in my nursing degree program.




From the second week of the first semester in my nursing program, 4 hours every morning was spent in a hospital doing clinical, starting at 7AM. *Then, actual classroom classes started after lunch. *Then you had to schedule all the other classes a science degree required late afternoon/evening/night classes....anatomy/physiology with their labs, microbiology w/labs, chemistry w/labs, and the other crap....history, English, etc., etc., all those "busy work" classes everyone complains about.


Then you had to find time to do the requisite papers/research/studying. *I was lucky to be able to hold a part time job during summer semesters when no "real" nursing program classes were held. *During the rest of the year.....forget about it. *


Then again, I had a distinct advantage over most of the other nsg. students in that I had just come out of a 7 year stint in the Army with my LPN license. *And I also found that the Army's LPN program (what used to be the MOS 91C-long course) was much harder, more intensive and difficult compared to the civilian college programs. *Guess that's why I didn't struggle with time management or the like during college....thankfully. *


Between the GI Bill and the grants/loans made available to nsg. students, I was lucky enough to not need to work....otherwise I'd probably been going part time for years because the time requirements of a nsg. degree are high, much higher than most other degrees (outside MD and the like.)

 

[shortylickens]

Seems to me OP is not too old if he's lacking basic knowledge on 18-21 year old work ethic.

I knew going back to college was gonna suck mostly cuz of the lazy kiddies whining and talking shit. I was right. No need to dwell on it, just makes me angry.

 

[KidNiki1]

Girls study with a high degree of conscientiousness. They study every little detail, dot every i and cross every t. They do not pass exams through intelligence and critical thinking but through mass memorization.

at least when i was 'memorizing' in college i 'remembered' how to spell a lot.

overgeneralize much?

the learning systems in school for both sexes is turned toward parroting. general level courses are dimmed for the masses. being a male or female has nothing to do with that.