<p>Just wondering.. No more 8 hour days, but they'll be scattered more, and still study more (though more flexible, less HW), right?</p>
<p>It really depends on how you do your schedule. On Monday and Fridays I go from 8 am - 11 am. Tuesday and Thursday I go from 8:10 am - 9:25 am a little break and then 11:10 am - 12:25 pm. Wednesday is my longest day because I have lab, so I go 8 am - 11 am, break, then lab from 12:20 - 2:15.</p>
<p>I still have homework for class that must be turned in at the next meeting. However, there is more reading than anything.</p>
<p>Cool
What school do you go to?</p>
<p>He must go to Tennessee</p>
<p>On average, most college students have, on average, three hours of class per day. However, depending on your school, your major, and your class schedule that number could vastly differ. There's usually is more studying, and more homework to be done in college as opposed to high school. It isn't uncommon to feel during midterms and finals as if your professors don't each realize that you have four other classes to study for besides theirs.</p>
<p>Oohh..3 hours a day.. So how many hours per day would you say a B student would need on HW/studying?</p>
<p>i dont reallyt get much hmwk.... just 2 MTs and 1 final for mst of my classes (math/sci)))))))))</p>
<p>hmwk optional... still it's not rly that mch
v.doable</p>
<p>3 hours? Not here, at least not often! Of course, I overload (21 credits last semester, 19 this one). Fridays. for example, I have class starting at 9 and ending at 5 with only a one hour break that I can't use for much because my clases are a good 20 walk. Of course, that's not typical, but last semster I had class starting at 10 and ending at 3 with only one hour break. My best scheduling day so far has been starting at 9:40 and ending at noon by that's highly atypical.. The best thing to do with those one hours gaps, I've found, is to go a place by your next class and get some done then. I'm a terrible procastinator, so I usually don't get homework started until about 9 or two and get ready for bed about 1 or 2 am and wake about 7:20ish. I use the afternoons and evenings for chores, clubs, lectures, etc., and, of course, just hanging out. I'm also looking to start working in a lab soon, so that'll eat up some free time.</p>
<p>For me it depends on the day and what my classes for the semester are. I usually schedule so I either have two back to back classes or a break between classes so I can come home and eat, get work done, etc.</p>
<p>Last semester all of my days except Wednesdays were two back to back classes (9:30 and 11:00). I had one three hour 8:00 (a science) on Wednesday. I took all my afternoons off unless I was called into work, used them for coursework if there was a buildup (like at finals time), and then split the evenings between coursework and activties (church choir, community band, and Bible study at my college). Saturdays became the days I always worked.</p>
<p>This semester I have two days with a 9:30 and a 2:00 class (I still technically have a 11:00 but I'm dropping it on Monday). The gap in between lets me drive home and eat, read for the 2:00 class so it's fresh in my head, or take a nap if I've already read and I was up late because of that. I have one day with a 12:30 and a 6:30 (night class), both of which run for three hours. This gives me Mondays, Thursdays, and Wednesday mornings free. I always work on Monday and Saturday, sometimes on Thursday, and am open on Wednesdays. Usually I make any appointments (doctor, dentist, car, haircut, etc) on a Thursday and I try to make them early so I either can go over (especially in the case of a car appointment) or get some extra time off. I use evenings the same as I had except for Wednesdays because of that class, but since I have no Thursday classes it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>I usually use Sunday afternoons and evenings for coursework. I sometimes take a nap after church (I'm there from 8:15 to 12:00 some weeks) but will typically get the bulk of busy work done then and also have Monday as my fallback option.</p>
<p>What I miss about high school though was the structure of the schedule. Nothing was really broken up. I was there from 7:00 to 2:30 or later five days a week, year round (I worked at my school in the summer although I started at 8:30 then).</p>
<p>My schedule this semester is a bit lopsided. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have 3 classes from 10-1, and then I'm finished for the day. On Tuesdays, I have class from 9:30-11, and then labs from 2-5 and 7-10 (that's right, at night). I didn't register for either of those sections...both of those labs had way too many register, so I was lucky to get in them both, and they had all sections filled so there was no chance to move. Thursdays are my good days...2 classes from 9:30-12 and I'm done!</p>
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<p>It depends on what classes you're taking, their difficulty, and how much time you're willing to put in for studying. At Temple University Freshman Orientation, one of the deans told us that for every credit hour* of class we had, we had to spend 2 hours studying (i.e. for a 3 credit hour class, we needed to study 6 hours per week, 4 credit hours~8 hours/wk studying, etc.). However, that number may vary based on which school you attend. Like here at SUNY Buffalo, it isn't uncommon to see students (especially pre-med/pre-pharm/pre-health sci students) spend most of their free time in the library studying. </p>
<p>*Credit hours are the number of hours per week (usually) a class will meet. This meaning does not apply to labs which meet 2-4 hours per week, but carry only 1-2 credits.</p>
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<p>I go to the University of Tennessee.</p>
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<p>Yes, but I'm a she. :)</p>
<p>It really depends on your class schedule and major. For me, on Mondays and Tuesdays I have about 3 hours of classes, and Fridays only 2. But because i have two lab classes, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, I have class from 10:15 to 5:30 with no more than a 10 minute break in between each class.</p>
<p>I used to have days where I go go go 10 am to 8 pm! But with that kind of schedule, I have an intense day, then a no class day, then intense day and then no class day.</p>
<p>I however MUCH prefer the 2-3 hrs a day schedule. This quarter, all my classes start at 2 pm and end usually around 4-5 pm. On one hand, it's a bit bad, because the 2 pm class doesn't give you a lot of incentive to wake up early but on the same hand, at least you will NEVER miss a class. (I had trouble with some 8/9am classes last quarter.)</p>
<p>Note: In high school, 6-7am is NOTHING. I used to wake up 5-6 am all the time in high school for my 6:30 class all the time. This was after I fall asleep at like 1-3 am. NOT TRUE FOR COLLEGE. You think that you've done it all the time in high school, so it's no biggie; wrong, it's tons harder in college. Honestly, expect to miss some of your 8 am class (earliest class, usually), or at least hate it, in college.</p>
<p>This semester:
5 "credits"--school doesn't assign credits to classes; all classes are one credit--18 hours/week.
10AM-2PM MTWTh with a 3 hour lab Wednesday night
12:30-1:30 F</p>
<p>syneria's right--while waking up between 7-9AM in high school may have seemed easy, the fact that college schedules are often shifted 2 or 3 hours later makes it exceedingly difficult to get up anytime before 9AM. Midnight bedtimes are almost impossible to achieve, and it feels like you need more sleep to make up for the increasing amount of work you're doing.</p>
<p>i always though that going to class in college would be so much easier than in HS.</p>
<p>i mean, having to be at school at 7:20 and then going for 8 hours? it really seemed like it couldn't get much worse.</p>
<p>my earliest class is 10, and it's only once a week. it's a nightmare. i'll stay up for SO LONG studying, and i never get enough sleep.</p>
<p>avoid 8 AMs like the plague.</p>
<p>by the way, i think my school (UNC-CH) recommends 2 hours for every hour you're in class. errr, if you're taking a 3-hour credit class, study for 6 hours a week.</p>
<p>it's awful.</p>
<p>So must kids will have 12 "hour" semesters, right?</p>
<p>Then that should be 12 class hours+36 study hours=48 total per week?
Now, it's 7x5=35 class hours+homework, and stuff. </p>
<p>Both seem kind of equal, except college requires more self discipline?</p>
<p>12 is usually a light load--15 or so is average.</p>
<p>The time you spend depends a lot on your courses/major. </p>
<p>I spent a crap-load of time my first quarter and first half of the second because I was in Honors Engineering. </p>
<p>We had homework from Calc I and Eng I every time we met (four days a week in Calc I and twice a week in Eng I) plus presentations and papers scattered in Eng I and a big project we had to design and build...and at least three hours a week on an online thing for Calc I. </p>
<p>For my Honors class that met twice a week I had a TON of reading because we took quizzes every time we met over the assigned reading...and then a big research paper and essay test due at the end of the course. </p>
<p>Then there was the Chem course that had homework for each chapter and an online thing that took for-friggin-ever. </p>
<p>It basically sucked major ass. I did way more work during that one quarter than I did during my entire time in high school (then again, my high school wasn't exactly challenging). </p>
<p>I'll get back to you on the workload for my new major after I've been in it a while. My schedule for Spring quarter is beautiful, though. I'm great at avoiding 8am classes...still haven't had to schedule one. I love it :)</p>
<p>What school did you go to Katho?</p>