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When did college stop becoming fun?

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OneOfTheseDays

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Starting my junior year at UCSD, majoring in CSE at the moment. I've come to realize that from now until I graduate I will basically have no life whatsoever. The amount of work required just to pass classes is ridiculous, and I find that to barely make the grade I have to bust my ass day in and day out. This leaves little to no time for a social life. I'm studying on Saturday mornings, and all day Sunday and the only night out is Friday pretty much. I don't recall school being this tough freshman or sophmore year. Give me my life back!
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
I'm working 40-60 hour weeks and taking 18 credits, don't complain to me about not having a social life.
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beat me to it. i work 30 hours and 19 credits. *bows*
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Suck it up, you get a life after you graduate, nose to the books my friend🙂
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ya you dont wanna end up like pliablemoose do you?








i kid i kid
 
I'm a grad student. I get up at 7, go to the gym. Start working around 8:30. I take breaks to eat and go to lecture, but I don't really stop working until it's time for bed at 11:00 pm or so. Taking out my meals, I work about 14 hours a day. I try to reserve the weekends to spend with my fiancee (who has a normal full time job), so I work 5 days a week. That's 70 hours a week.
 
Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Starting my junior year at UCSD, majoring in CSE at the moment. I've come to realize that from now until I graduate I will basically have no life whatsoever. The amount of work required just to pass classes is ridiculous, and I find that to barely make the grade I have to bust my ass day in and day out. This leaves little to no time for a social life. I'm studying on Saturday mornings, and all day Sunday and the only night out is Friday pretty much. I don't recall school being this tough freshman or sophmore year. Give me my life back!
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have you tried to manage a full time job and 16 credits before? If you have worked during the school year, you realize it is overwelming in the beginnin, but naturally gets easier.
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
I'm working 40-60 hour weeks and taking 18 credits, don't complain to me about not having a social life.
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i call shens .... 8-10 hrs of work + 3-4hours of class + workload = failing one or another
 
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Orsorum
I'm working 40-60 hour weeks and taking 18 credits, don't complain to me about not having a social life.
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i call shens .... 8-10 hrs of work + 3-4hours of class + workload = failing one or another
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Nope.

M 8:30-10:20: Class
10:30-11:30: Tutoring
11:30-1PM: Lunch
1PM-3PM: Office hours
3PM-4PM: Staff meeting
4PM-11PM (roughly): Homework
Tuesday
8:30-9:50: Class
10:30-12:20: Class
1:30-2:50: Class
3:30-5:20: Class
6-11PM: Research for work
Wednesday
8:30-10:20: Class
11:30-6PM: Work
6PM-10PM: Homework/Reading/Errands
Thursday
8:30-9:50: Class
10:30-12:20: Class
1:30-2:50: Class
3:30-5:20: Class
6-11PM: Research for work/On Duty
Friday
8:30AM-8:30PM: Work
Saturday
8:30AM-8:30PM: Work
Sunday
If I'm lucky, homework and friends/family time. If not, work. This last week was a 50 hour week for me; I was at work from 6PM-11PM on Tuesday, doing research for work on Wednesday afternoon (2PM-8PM), 8AM-12:30AM on Friday, 8:30AM-3PM on Saturday, and 8AM-1AM on Sunday. I'm not even sure how much time I spent on duty and responding to incidents. Last week was an outlier, thankfully. My schedule above is typical of my average schedule.

I'm not trying to puff up my own schedule as though I'm somehow super stressed out - although I realize my initial post in the thread sounded that way. I'm simply realizing how hard and draining it is for people to work their way through four full years of college, and I'm starting to learn that my social life will, for most of the next five/ten years of my life (until I'm done with law school/MBA program/earning my first million/etc), consist of dinners a couple nights a week with friends.

I had dinner with a friend tonight and I'm getting pho with a friend tomorrow, and that's probably the extent of my social time for the week, barring lunch with my mom on Sunday. Life is busy, and that's the long and short of it.

And, yes, my grades have taken a hit this quarter, more than I ever wanted. I'm not happy about it, but that's life.
 
I know alot of people in alot of hard majors that do very well and DONT spend their lives doing work.

Maybe you need to work on your study skills, cuz somethin ain't right if you can't have a social life, i don't care what your major is.
 
Maybe you need to work on your study skills, cuz somethin ain't right if you can't have a social life, i don't care what your major is.
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Different majors make a huge difference...are you telling me a Communications or Marketing major works as much as a Computer Engineering or Accounting major? At least at my school that's not the case...Marketing and Comm are easy majors it's why a good amount of people do them.
By the way, I am an Accounting major and it's pretty difficult, but I have a social life. It's difficult for people to balance part-time jobs and school at the same time...
 
Originally posted by: Deeko
I know alot of people in alot of hard majors that do very well and DONT spend their lives doing work.

Maybe you need to work on your study skills, cuz somethin ain't right if you can't have a social life, i don't care what your major is.
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are you an EE or CE major?
 
Well - I work 40 hr weeks (not research - actual full time job) and am taking 16units for full time school.
Lets just say time is very valuable.
But its not like you CANT have a social life - you just need better time management skills. It is definitely do-able.
 
Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Originally posted by: Deeko
I know alot of people in alot of hard majors that do very well and DONT spend their lives doing work.

Maybe you need to work on your study skills, cuz somethin ain't right if you can't have a social life, i don't care what your major is.
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are you an EE or CE major?
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I have a "decent" social life.

<-- Super Senior EE.
 
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