<p>I'm planning on having two nights of the week where I knock out all my assignments. And maybe go to bed around midnight. All my classes start around 8. Is this a good plan?</p>
<p>First of all, “homework” is a high school term. </p>
<p>No one can really answer your question. It would depend on the rigor of your school, your major and your intellectual ability.</p>
<p>Would like to add … other factors include your level of socializing and/or your involvement in campus activities (e.g. marching band, orchestra, research) or student employment (e.g. food services) </p>
<p>It’s different for everyone.</p>
<p>I must admit that I usually went to bed by midnight as a freshman. But I was among the earliest in the hall to go to bed. (I still hate staying up late)</p>
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<p>Thanks for answering my question.</p>
<p>S has been a frosh for all of a full week now but says he has found his rhythm doing the above, some work here, some there, throughout the day.</p>
<p>I think for all college students, the amount of homework/studying you do varies each day because the classes are all operating on their own schedules. I probably did an average of about 1-2 hours of homework/studying a night, but on some days I did none (like Thursday/Friday since Friday was a light day) and other days I did 3-5 (if I had an exam). The only thing that sucked about freshman year was the fact that since everyone stays up late just doing whatever, you kind of get pulled into it too, so there would be times where I slept at 3 just talking to friends even though I was done with homework around 8 or 9. I mostly slept around 12:30-1:30 since I had class around 9/9:30 every day.</p>
<p>First semester freshman year, my homework schedule looked something like this:</p>
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<li>5-page paper for writing seminar due every Monday, reading assignments due every Tuesday and Thursday. estimated time: 4 hours for paper, 4 hours for readings.</li>
<li>Computer science programming assignment due every Wednesday. 1-6 hours depending on the assignment. </li>
<li>Math problem set due every Thursday. 4-6 hours.</li>
<li>Econ problem sets due every Friday, reading assignments for every class. 1 hour for problem set, 2 hours for reading. </li>
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<p>I don’t think I would have been able to do all of my work (including reading) on two nights. Not enough time and in the wrong rhythm. I preferred to do a few hours of work most days, with Saturdays off. That also gave me the opportunity to seek help when I got stuck. For example, my math TA had office hours on Tuesday. In order to take advantage of office hours, I needed to start the math assignment before Tuesday and then finish it between Tuesday and Thursday.</p>
<p>First week was just over, so can’t tell much. I have not gotten any homework all last week, although I will be having my first physic lab this week. My roommate had an English paper and a intro-yourself essay for another class all last week.</p>
<p>We’re both freshmen btw.</p>
<p>b@r!um seems to have a good study schedule/study habits. </p>
<p>I had a really inconsiderate ****head for a roommate who was literally nocturnal and left his bright LED lights on all night and watched YouTube videos while I tried to sleep. Needless to say, I was pretty sleep deprived all year.</p>
<p>Sorry for the negativity, been meaning to rant about my roommate for the longest time. </p>
<p>Anyway, first quarter of first year I would spend about 5-10 hours a week on a calculus problem set. Another 4 hours for reading for my humanities course.
French I didn’t have to spend much time on, never studied for the quizzes but we had three essays that took maybe 3 hours each.
For macroecon, didn’t study unless there was an exam. There were four exams, and I spent about 20 hours studying for each one. O.o</p>
<p>Went to bed at 2 AM. Maybe 5-6 hours a week for all my classes combined every semester. I didn’t study a lot until my third year of college. Do not recommend this path.</p>
<p>If you are working 40+ hours a week, I can understanding knocking out assignments in two days. If not, spread it out. This is how my 4.0 friend got into Stanford and Berkeley as a transfer student (besides being extremely smart). He was very disciplined, so when he sat down…he did the work and didn’t mess around on Facebook. He wouldn’t do anything until the weekend but all weekend long he would get everything done.</p>
<p>I have to agree with TomSrBoston. It depends on a number of factors. Best course of action is to join some organizations related to your major and base your work habits on the habits of (successful) upperclassmen in your major. </p>
<p>Until then, one of the best pieces of advice I got was to think of college as the real world and schoolwork as an 8-5 job. If you aren’t doing something academic during those hours (including pure studying, office hours, advisor meetings, etc, not just hw), take a second look at your work habits.</p>