<p>I once had an 8AM class five days week. I’m a morning person plus I work in the evenings so it is important for me to get classes during the day. I don’t think all morning classes should be gotten rid of at all.</p>
<p>I avoid 8AM classes like the plague, but have no problem with 9AM’s. Of course I also have to have all of my classes done by 3 every day for sports practice. On top of that is about 15hrs of work a week. Thankfully after this next semester I won’t have to take more than 12 credits a semester for the rest of my time.</p>
<p>I loveeeee morning classes. Especially at the beginning of fall quarter, when the weather is fairly cool but not uncomfortably cold. It’s so tranquil and just makes me feel good to get up before 8 AM, eat breakfast, and head to class.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. Get your lazy arse up and go to class. Most people have jobs starting around 8:00 AM. Get used to it.</p>
<p>OP–if you don’t want to take an early class, then don’t.</p>
<p>Abolishing early classes just takes away other students’ freedom of choice. </p>
<p>Personally, I would never want to take classes late in the day or in the evening–I just don’t function as well then.</p>
<p>But it would never occur to me to abolish classes at those times–</p>
<p>I would just find another section of the class, or take a different class altogether that semester.</p>
<p>For many fields, morning classes are all but essential unless the person wants to be in the lab until 10pm. Scheduling morning classes allowed me to take an interesting seminar on Afghan US relations as well as time in the middle of the day to nap, eat, or study. Besides, if you can’t handle having a morning class, how are you going to function in the real world? It seems most of my hs classmates that didn’t go onto college manage to get up early enough in the morning to go to jobs that are much more demanding than being a student.</p>
<p>Then how come people tend to not to show up for morning classes? Where are the nocturnal people on this site??</p>
<p>I’m nocturnal. I hate mornings and morning classes. My sleep schedule right now is approximately 4 AM - 12 PM because I’m off work and classes for a few weeks. </p>
<p>However, when I get back to the real world, I’ll do what I have to do. That means commuting just under an hour twice a week to go to my 8 AMs and probably going there just as early 2 other days to go to work. </p>
<p>Why do people not show up? They haven’t learned responsibility yet.</p>
<p>OP: So what are you planning to do when that post college job starts at 8 AM?</p>
<p>Using buildings only half the day would cause your costs to skyrocket.</p>
<p>OP, if you think people don’t show up for morning classes, you should have seen my animal biochemistry course both fall and winter quarter. The class was held at 8am both times, and the professor doesn’t podcast (podcasting is what most professors at my university do) and he writes everything on the board, so people HAD to be in class to record his lectures using their own recording devices (which he allows) and to write down what he’s written on the board. Every single day, the lecture hall for that class was FILLED (and this is the 2nd biggest lecture hall at my college). A few students relied on friends also taking the class to copy notes from, but most students didn’t do that and showed up to class. Same with my O-Chem class during spring quarter–held at 8am 3 days a week, and while lectures were podcasted, you CANNOT tell what structures the professor has drawn on the board just from listening, and you can’t learn synthesis and mechanisms from podcasts.</p>
<p>I vote for abolishing morning classes. Not only do I not like getting up in the morning, I have to commute, and if I have morning classes that means peak rush hour traffic!</p>
<p>I like morning classes. I’d rather have everything bunched up early in the morning so that I have time to do stuff for the rest of the day. Then have a staggered day or a day that’s broken up in the middle because of classes.</p>