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<p>Nope. My AP Lit class was a billion times more difficult than my freshman English class last semester.</p>
<p>^Yeah. I think some of my college classes will be A LOT tougher, and others will be easier compared to certain difficult AP classes with a demanding teacher that I had.</p>
<p>AP Spanish & AP US Gov (the year I took it = joke, now w/ a different teacher = harder) = jokes, can be bad for AP test though (still managed a 4 on Gov studying it myself)
AP Euro = hard at my HS, but good for AP test (5)
APUSH, AP Lit = medium level
AP Calc = easy class for me, and an easy 5, but I’ve never felt challenged in a math class yet
AP Psych, self study so idk</p>
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@Johnson181-
Ok. I’m not an engineering major like you, so if a lot of my classes will just involve lots of reading, I can probably go ahead on that other weeks before stuff is due. As a music major, we have to take lots of music theory, and normally I don’t think people can go ahead on those problems (as you mention about your major), but I’ve always thought theory was easy and haven’t had problems (am currently reading through my college theory textbook to review for the placement test), so I can go ahead on problems in there just fine I think. Other than that, my classes will be reading homework mainly and practicing, of course.</p>
<p>The college experience is different for everyone - I’m just presenting one idea for why some people may seem contradicting on their college description.</p>
<p>The argument for finals week still holds though. An extra class during the semester may be fine… until you’ve got lots of papers/exams/etc due all at the same time at the end of the semester.</p>
<p>(To be fair, I’m one of those crazy people that almost never takes less than 17 credits. So my idea of “adding another class” means adding a 6th or 7th).</p>
<p>^ Seventhed it. Just ride the waveeee</p>
<p>Eighth’in it. College is an experience. No matter how many threads you post about anything and everything, we can’t tell you <em>everything</em> that’s going to happen. Being able to deal with new and unexpected situations is a life skill.</p>
<p>I usually find that it’s the way people study that makes the difference. Some people might get a big study room in the library with all their friends and sit around joking and only half heartedly going through the material. Then they think, Oh, I’ll be golden for this test, I spend X hours studying! When really, they probably spend 15 minutes altogether really learning their stuff. I’m lucky to have great recall of things I’ve read, so I may spend two hours studying for a test and ace it (sadly, this doesn’t happen every time). </p>
<p>While I spend time going through assignments, reading the book and my notes each day, I also find time for partying and having fun with my friends. It’s a time management thing, which you might need to work to develop.</p>
<p>NINTH’d</p>
<p>For me, high school and college were the same amount of work but college had a lot more free time. The only difference was my place of learning. In high school, I learned mostly everything in class and had minimal homework. In college, I spent minimal time in class getting lectures but had to do a huge amount of independent work outside of class. But my major area is somewhere in math and science though, where classes consist only of lectures. Just a little estimated average for me,
one high school day = 9 hours of class + 1 hours of homework/study
one college day = 2 hours of class + 4 hours of homework/study</p>
<p>I didn’t really read all the wall of text responses, but RoxSox nailed it.
Also, credit hours barely mean anything. You frequently have 2 credit hour classes with more work than 4 credit hour classes, or 1 credit hour courses with more work than 3 credit hour courses. You have to consider the class and the professor to get anywhere close to accurate estimates.</p>
<p>iluvpiano, you should blog about your college life as soon as you start. I’d love to hear about it</p>
<p>Tenthed…quit making threads on every single possible thing about college. It starts in a month, you’ll find out then. Millions of people have gone to college before you and have been just fine…quit worrying.</p>
<p>And it’s a bit pointless because most of the things we say/things you ask are school-specific, so they won’t even apply to you.</p>
<p>LOL. I know you guys are thinking “I can’t wait till the girl finally starts school” haha. </p>
<p>But srsly, iluv, you need to chillax with all these questions. I understand you’re excited and everything, but you need to just experience these things and let things be mysterious as opposed to wanting a question for everything about college.</p>
<p>Here’s a typical day of my first semester:</p>
<p>9 am: get up, have breakfast and get ready for class.
10 - 1: in class
1 - 2: lunch
2 - 4: homework/studying
4 - 7: sports + dinner or job + snack-on-the-go (depending on the weekday)
7 - 8 or 9: recitations, problem sessions, club meetings
after 9: finish up homework, then chill with friends or watch TV or post on CC :)</p>
<p>If you count, I might have only spent 6-7 hours of a regular weekday on academics, but I felt mighty busy anyway. If I had wanted to squeeze another class into my schedule, I would have had to sacrifice sports or my job or my social time at night.</p>
<p>P.S. All of my first-semester classes (mostly quantitative plus a writing seminar) had smaller weekly assignments, which allowed me to have a very regular predictable schedule. If I had taken classes that assign a few big papers or projects, I would have been super busy with homework in some weeks with a lot more leisure time in others.</p>
<p>It’s worth noting that it can vary a lot depending on what year you’re in. I think my workload per night went up by several hours the further into college I got.</p>
<p>Eleventhed it.</p>
<p>Relax and enjoy your summer. Everything will fall into place according to your own schedule.</p>
<p>Twelfth it…</p>
<p>As I’ve written on your other threads and has been stated many times before on this thread, you won’t know until you get there. As a music major also, I looked at the theory book as a freshman and also thought it was a piece of cake, but suddenly you’ll get past what you know and it gets really hard, at least mine did…but I guess that depends on the music school. So you’ll probably start out putting hardly any time in, and the further up you go, the more studying you’ll have to do.</p>
<p>If you are in the sciences or engineering, finding extra time is really tough because of all the lab classes. Also, it can take 5 years instead of 4 because taking the extra classes per semester is so tough. </p>
<p>My son, however, is a double major, a language and economics. He took extra classes and also worked 10 hours a week. He had no time to do anything but study. He made the Dean’s list both semesters his Freshman year. </p>
<p>By your second semester you will have it figured out.</p>
<p>Thirteenthed.</p>
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I had the same experience. My college is heavily focused on the academic side of music rather than the music side of music (if that makes any sense)—classes are taught very formulaically and are not application-based as it would be in a college of music focused on composers and performers. I was able to breeze through Theory II, but looking ahead to Theory III, I knew I would be in trouble eventually.</p>
<p>College is not just about the academics; the social aspect to it is just as important. One does not only gain more academic-based knowledge: college students are supposed to be learning how to function in the world in every aspect. You can not go in knowing everything so you might as well accept that now (as 12+ people before me have said, and in this thread alone).</p>
<p>Also, have you noticed that you shoot down any advice contrary to your own opinion?</p>