<p>Some may have read only part 1 of what I said about “high school way of thinking” and might have not been clear on my meaning. I’ll try to explain. First of all, due to availability of classes sometimes a person is unable to schedule all classes in one day. Until a person has some kind of college experience, they may not know that. They may think all classes/times are available to them. When they do the actual schedule they find out it may not be so. But mainly, in high school, students typically go from one hour(or less) class to another, 8 to 3, 5 days/wk. Often a study hall period may be in their day, reducing homework. With shorter, daily classes the workload is generally smaller each day than longer less frequent classes(such as MWF) at college. And I believe that though high-schoolers often have homework S and Sun, I don’t believe it is typically so much that it takes most of their days for schoolwork. So there might be some work to do outside of class days to be ready for M, I don’t think it is typically as much as a college student has to do. And, the course studies in general in college require more time outside of class. Frosh entering college are used to the smaller daily workloads, and can be caught by surprise that there often isn’t enough time on Monday evening to finish all the college homework in all classes to be fully prepared for the next day(Wed) of classes, though that one evening was enough time in high school. Expecting to have time to get it all done in one evening, would be a high school way of thinking. That thinking would let them expect they’d have all day T and Th to horse around. Students who find them self in that position realize they must then do schoolwork on T and Th, or drop/add classes to get work done. </p>
<p>Momof3 posts that her S does labs, reading, and other necessary schoolwork on T and Th. Clearly her S understands the need for additional studies on T and Th and doesn’t have T and Th completely free to just horse around. </p>
<p>So, the “high school way of thinking” as I put it is really 2 parts. 1)The desire to schedule one class right after another for a full day of all classes, MWF or T-Th and 2) AND expecting to complete all necessary studies for all those classes the same day as those classes, (as student did in H.S.) so that days not in class can be completely free for horsing around.</p>