<p>Has anyone ever successfully taken two courses back-to-back with only 5 minute break?</p>
<p>Let's say you have a 9-11:55am course and a 12-2:55pm course on the same day.</p>
<p>Is it doable? Suicide? What did you do about lunch?</p>
<p>I usually leave a 15 minute break. I think I would want to shoot myself if I had two three hour classes back to back with five minutes in between, however. If they were shorter, I would be fine with a 5 minute break, but not with classes that long. I don't like sitting in the same place for too long.</p>
<p>I have taken two classes back to back, but those were two 80-minute classes and after that I desperately needed a break. I could not imagine sitting in class for 5 hours without a real break!</p>
<p>I've had 10 minutes between classes before, but they were in the same building.</p>
<p>Eat breakfast before your 9am class and lunch after 3pm. For my 3 hour classes, I usually got 1 or 2 breaks in the class, which is usually enough time to grab a snack.</p>
<p>Ehh, 9AMs. No, thank you.</p>
<p>Edit. I see your 2nd class is mad long. That schedule is awful lol.</p>
<p>why the hell are there 3 hr classes?</p>
<p>Generally for 3 hour classes, they'll put something like a 10-15 minute break in the middle. You don't want to sit for 3 hours straight, and they don't want to lecture for 3 hours straight. Just bring a snack and a sack lunch and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Those class are ridiculously long. Maybe if it was like 11-11:55 and 12-12:55 but that is almost 6 hours of class back to back! That is DUMB. You will be hating yourself after like 2 weeks into the semester.</p>
<p>And it becomes pretty clear which people have never taken a class with a lab component...</p>
<p>this person didn't say it was a lab, they said it was a course, which I would take to mean a lecture class. Also, even if these were labs that would still be REALLY DUMB to take scheduled this way because back to back labs is really tedious and hard to manage.</p>
<p>I know it's not a lab, but you're acting like classes that long are unheard of. I know lots of people that have had similarly compact days (back-to-back labs, 8 hours of class with only a 30 minute break, spending over 10 hours in the same building in one day etc.) and did just fine. I don't know if I've gone a semester without having a consecutive 3 hour long block of classes multiple days of the week. Also, odds are those are the only sections of those classes offered, so it's not necessarily a scheduling choice. Furthermore, OP is in graduate school, so the classes are more likely to be in something they're at least tangentially interested in, instead of boring intro undergrad classes.</p>
<p>Most of my classes in my junior year, senior year, and in grad school were 3 hours long. I liked it that way though. Instead of having 2 sessions a week, there was only one. I would have an entire week to prepare for a class, do homework for it, work on projects, etc. It would also make my schedule more flexible and would usually allow me to work at my internship 10-20 hours a week.</p>
<p>I realize that 3 hours of back-to-back classes aren't unusual, but 6 hours with only a 5 minute break? Again, when exactly are they supposed to eat? I feel it's a bit rude to eat in classes (the noise can distract others, for one). And obviously it'd be a bit unhealthy to scarf down an entire lunch in the 5 minutes between. I just think this person should schedule one or the other but not both of these classes if at all possible.</p>
<p>I took 4 classes in a row, starting at 8:00 AM and ending at 2:30, but I had a 15 minute break between each class....in all honesty though, I never really used the breaks for anything (the classrooms were all in the same building). Once in a while I would grab lunch, but usually I would wait until after my last class so that I wouldn't be rushed (I sometimes had a snack). I had no problems with the schedule, but I wasn't sitting in the same room for 3 hours for only 2 classes, but if I were you, I would want to get the classes out of the way. But that's just me.</p>