avg. day @ cornell

<p>Thanks for the post gomestar, it gives an idea of what to look forward too.</p>

<p>how long are cornell classes usually and how often do they meet? because at NYU classes are 75min and meet 2x a week</p>

<p>depends...</p>

<p>the average class is 50 minutes and meets 3 times a week (some are 3 classes, some are 2 lectures and 1 small discussion section)</p>

<p>others are 75 minutes and meet twice a week.</p>

<p>And the cruel and unusual ones (<em>cough</em> genetics <em>cough</em>) meet twice a week for 115 minutes each time, 90 minute optional/not-so-optional problem-solving section once a week, 2-hour official lab time once a week, and anywhere from 3-7 hours of unofficial time that must be spent in lab per week.</p>

<p>The schedules posted are misleading if you are an engineer or a science major. I don't have a typical day but I'll post i'll try to summarize a typical freshmen premed bio major would have.</p>

<p>biog 101 (2 credits ) three lectures for 50 minutes each
biog 102 (2 credits) 3 hour lab plus occasional lectures
chem 207/215, (4 credits) two 50 minute lectures, 1 hour of recitation and 3 hours of lab
math 111/112/122, four 50 minutes lectures per week,
writing seminar, (3 credits) three 50 minute lectures of two 75 minutes lectures.</p>

<p>This is 17 hours of class for a 15 credit course load.</p>

<p>Typically you have around 50 minutes of class per week per credit, which is about 12.5 hours per week.</p>

<p>My typical schedule:</p>

<p>8:40-11 class
11-1 lunch/nap
1-2:30 class
2:30-6/7 volunteer at CMC or research
7-10 dinner + various forms of screwing around/pretending to work
10-wee hours of the morning-realizing that I have done no work and finally settling down</p>

<p>Lather. Rinse. Repeat.</p>

<p>fudgemaster, can you outline that in daily format?</p>

<p>Here is a typical schedule for a bio major. You can probably find the examples online on the cornell bio website. You can also look at the course roster available online as well. </p>

<p>Monday:
9:05-9:55 BioLecture
10:10-11:00: FWS
1:25-2:15 Math</p>

<p>Tuesday:
8:00-11:00 Bio Lab
12:20-1:10 Chem Lecture
1:25-2:15 Math</p>

<p>Wednesday:
9:05-9:55 BioLecture
10:10-11:00: FWS
1:25-2:15 Math</p>

<p>Thursday
8:00-12:00 Chem Lab
12:20-1:10 Chem Lecture</p>

<p>Friday:
9:05-9:55 BioLecture
10:10-11:00: FWS
1:25-2:15 Math</p>

<p>You also have to take 2 credits of PE. Last year I took an additional 2 credits of research which is about 8 hours of work per week whenever I find the time to go as well as a weekly lab meeting. There are also 00 "Double 0" classes that drill in the information that you learn in lecture. Those usually occur weekly, during the night. Besides academics I was part of two clubs that met weekly for about an hour each. I wouldn't say that a typical week is particularly difficult. You usually turn in 2-3 problem sets, maybe write a short essay. But during prelims and finals, it's especially difficult because all the classes tend to give the exams during the same weeks. It requires good time management skills in order to do well.</p>

<p>Today's schedule:</p>

<p>10:00AM: Get up, hygine, dress, email. (I dropped my 9 and 10AM classes and am replacing them with Econ 313.)
10:20: Do the spanish HW I didn't get done last night because of pledging.
11:15: Math 112 Lecture
12:05PM: Skip physics lecture to do the spanish essay I didn't get to last night either. Got a friend to take notes.
1:15: Buy a notebook at the campus store and then walk down the slope to eat lunch at the fraternity house. Deb made monte carlo sandwiches and vegatable soup.
2:30: Spanish Lecture
3:20: Return to dorm. I will do homework, organizational stuff, pick up a package at the mail center etc.
6:00: meeting and discussion
7:00: Dinner at the house
8:00: school work and study. Chillin when i'm done...
12AM-1: Bed hopefully.</p>

<p>today and tomorrow looks like nothing but labor law work. Oof, I spent 4 hours last night doing one assignment in a group effort, and that was just homework #1!</p>

<p>earlier, we were dumped with 5 more assignments for wednesday's class. Looks like i'll be a little busy...</p>

<p>Worst day of the week: </p>

<p>7:00 AM- get up, shower, do my hair, eat cereal in my dorm
8:40-9:50- American Labor History
10:10-11:00- Intro to Business Management
11:00-2:00- Read 50 pages in hope of catching up on all the work I missed courtesy of pledging/drinking
2:30-3:20- Intro to Philsophy
4:30-8:00- Pathetic attempt to catch up on work (or procrastinating more) and dinner
9:00-10:30ish?- Some sorority meeting
10:30-whenever- Chill/be useless, since my only class is at 1:25</p>

<p>i heard that a lot of students at Cornell don't take friday classes. is this true? and is it easy to configure your schedule this way?</p>

<p>People try not to take Friday classes. I'd imagine it would be easier to arrange after you get the intro courses out of the way and have more freedom with your schedule.</p>

<p>i looked up the academic calender but it doesn't specify when the breaks are. from what i've seen Cornell doesn't have long breaks. is the winter session (optional)break also?</p>

<p>yes it does...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/2006-07.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/2006-07.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Just to put it out there, for a LOT of classes you can get away without going to lecture - especially in engineering/big lecture classes, since most everything you need is on the internet (i.e. lecture notes, homework assignments, etc).</p>

<p>i didn't go to the last half of the lectures for my statistics class. </p>

<p>My prof wrote the book and it was alot clearer than his lectures. I got more from reading a chapter for an hour than going to his lecture for 75 minutes. </p>

<p>i got an A- in the course, i didnt miss out by skipping lecture.</p>

<p>Exactly, I got an A in two classes I didn't go to after early October last semester - a lot of time lecture is simply reading the book/writing it on the board, or maybe going through a powerpoint presentation that you can likely download and go through yourself. Obviously, I doubt that not oging to class would be a good idea in the smaller, upper level classes (where you're less likely to have a nice friendly course webpage, or may want to actually get to know the prof. so you can get a recommendation), but for any large lecture class you can probably get away with it.</p>

<p>Not going to class...I wouldn't advise it for classes that grade on a harsh curve. Why not go to lecture when the professor usually writes exams that are mostly based on lecture? I remember Chirik who taught chem 207 last year even told us exactly what some of the answers for his prelims and final.</p>

<p>What do you mean by harsh curve?</p>