<p>Rocketman makes a good point. Additionally, a lot of times professors won't have length guidelines or requirements, and just expect you to write clearly and concisely.</p>
<p>Yeah my strategy for long papers is to say something like "In order to understand this issue, one must first look at the history of..." and that will knock out like six pages.</p>
<p>nthing Rocketman's point. Many of my professors give a word limit with strict lower and higher numbers. It can be frustrating to be limited to three pages on a really complicated idea, but it does encourage students to be more concise and skillful writers.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, those short essays SUCK. I've had one with 150-250 words in a history class and it was so hard to shorten. I ended up with 249 words and I felt like I left so much out, but I got a 97 on it. Those assignments really help to teach you how to much the most important things out of a lot of information. I think it might have actually helped my notetaking.</p>
<p>Heh, OKgirl, that reminds me of the Abstract assignments I'd get in my technical writing course. We'd have to condense the findings of these 10+ page papers and reports we'd get into less than 250 word snippets. Then we'd have to write a page-long executive summary. The hardest part is that no acronyms were allowed to save on space/wordage. :(</p>
<p>most of my classes (normal lecture type) give me tests and papers. Papers are usually from 3-20 pages like someone said (normally 6 pages.) the longest one I have written so far in college was 15. I have no random homework.</p>
<p>But unlike high school your english teacher isn't the only one grading your papers. If you write paper for a history class, your history prof will read it and will care more about the info inside than your writing skills so that's a bit different. (My writing SUCKS but I do put enough info in so I usually get A's and B's. they always comment on my writing skills but >_<;; I dont think it'll get any better)</p>
<p>Reading. Lots of it. Usually for each of my classes, I need to read either one book per week, or 4-8 readings online (which may be as many as 100 pages each). And if you don't do that homework, it's very easy for everyone to tell.</p>
<p>What about engineering homework? Someone posted earlier a little about engineering but I'd like to know a little more if anything.</p>
<p>Engineering is usually weekly problem sets of varying difficulty (at the schools I've been, it usually took 8+ hour an assignment, but I've heard plenty of people saying theirs never took more than four). In a number of classes you'll also tend to have labs or long-term projects which have to be completed moderately independently, with some lab time given, but it's rarely enough to complete the lab.</p>
<p>I used to hang out with all of my friends while we did homework together (an encouraged activity) because it made doing homework a lot more fun from the socialization, and it took around the same amount of time as doing it alone (friends distracting vs. getting stuck on a problem).</p>
<p>It all depends on your major. Many of the science/engineering majors I know seem to always be studying, but I'm a business major and I rarely do any work. I also have around a 3.2 which I'm looking to improve this year...</p>
<p>I'm interested in business too but I heard it's really tough and competitive, could you give me the lowdown on business homework?</p>
<p>Business is seriously probably the toughest thing you could possibly major in.</p>
<p>I have a few business major friends, and it's INSANE.</p>
<p>They have some hw problems to do every week, and business math puts engineering to shame. I looked at their homework once: "1+1", "3/3", "5+x=9", that kind of stuff. Real high level.</p>
<p>And they get homework every night. Most assignments are along the lines of "play XBox 360 all night" or "party 5 days a week", or if the professor's a real hardass, "do nothing, then taunt your science major friends".</p>
<p>bitter much?</p>
<p>Not at all, I just like poking fun.</p>
<p>Truth is, the business majors are the smart ones. Their major is relatively easy, they (usually) get chances for internships and networking, and usually get decent jobs with potential right out of college.</p>
<p>Ok well what about a ID major because I did some research and that is the major for me hands down, what about their homework?</p>
<p>when u guys mention how long it takes to complete the hw (ie: 8-12 hours), is that per week or...?</p>
<p>I really didn't have homework my first year of college. I did have a few papers but they didn't feel like the usual daily homework you expect like in high school. Most of my classes were test/quiz based only (I had a criminal justice class that was 10% attendance 45% midterm and 45% final to give you an idea).</p>
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<p>Per assignment per week for me. That's an average, as some classes would take considerably more (12+ hours) and others would take considerably less (less than 4). I remember my statistics class would have homeworks that would take me about an hour and a half to do, then the tests would be almost the same as the homework, except twice as long and with only an hour to do it.</p>
<p>Anyone know what the homework is like for an average biology major? I know there is basically a lot of memorization but what other types of things are there?</p>
<p>Labs .</p>