<p>I have never worked this hard or long in my life. Even in these first few days, I have had hundreds of pages to read and tons of problems to solve. Most other people I know don't seem to be working nearly as much as me. Like last night I worked in the ugli from literally 6 pm untill 11 pm. This is not necessarily a bad thing as a I like a challenge. Am I the only one who has lots of work?</p>
<p>What classes are you taking and how many credits? All in all, work load varies from person to person because different people have different capacities.</p>
<p>Also, a heavy AP course load has taught many people how to study more effectively and do work more efficiently.</p>
<p>6-11 straight probably isn't too great. Personally, I like to split things up as much as possible.</p>
<p>it hasn't really been the amount of schoolwork, but the extracurriculars. All the meetings and stuff have taken their toll on me. Another lesson: don't go to beer pong night (Thursday night) at DKE, especially if you have a 8 am lecture.</p>
<p>Hopefully I'm going to change the way I get stuff done this year since almost everything is due on 2 days of week, but my first two years I always rocked everything the night before. Including 12+ hour math problem sets. Eventually you learn to just crank down and get through something until it's done.</p>
<p>I also wisened up after my first semester as a full time student, and limit myself to one class per semester that involves reading, just because they expect you to do so much of it. I can do problem sets, but I can't bring myself to do reading.</p>
<p>I'm first-year taking 17 credits.</p>
<p>AsianLan 125
Soc 100
PoliSci 160
Stats 350</p>
<p>Mondays are the worst for me because the first class is at 8:30 and classes run straight to noon.</p>
<p>i don't really have too much work. just a lot of reading.. boring reading.</p>
<p>lol... that's always the worst</p>
<p>and i think like the 60+ pages of reading for polisci was quite pointless.</p>
<p>I'm behind about 300 pages on reading... Also, about what you said about it seeming like other people aren't working as hard, my aunt, who's a michigan alum, warned me that for the first few weeks it'll seem like no one's working and everyone's just partying and not really studying, and then before you know it, it's midterms and you're behind...and no one else is.</p>
<p>Forgiven, are you talking about PoliSci 160? Because I the required reading for that class is pretty rediculous.</p>
<p>Studying an average of 4-5 hours a day isn't that much CCRunner. That's slightly above average, but not much. Be careful to judge how much others are studying by the activity around you. Michigan has 40,000 students. Even if just 10% of the students are partying or having fun at any one time, that's 4,000 students. So naturally, you are always going to have thousands of students doing nothing around you.</p>
<p>I'm taking PolSci 160 as well. The reading is crazy long. 116 pages in the first two days...jeez. And the author of the text said the same thing in a million different ways. So annoying.</p>
<p>Yes indeed, you are alone my fine feathered friend.</p>
<p>I'm in a similar situation. Although I'm not as diligent as you but I was stressed this week. People around me watch TV and play video games at night while I'm sitting in front of my desk trying to figure out my math homework. I'm so screwed in MATH 215 now. The time we spend in class seems short, yet we have bunch of homework problems that we were never taught how to do. Funny thing is the GSI didn't seem to realize there was homework posted. All other classes seem to be fine so far, MATH 215 just seems a bit disorganized.</p>
<p>hey, i have the same problem mr100%. Are you struggling with 215 as well?</p>