<p>Labs can take a good amount of time to do, but aside from that I really don’t study for exams that much. I usually open my books 2 or 3 days before an exam (whether I’ve been to class or not) and I’m doing fine. I have a 3.13 GPA going into my Senior year in Electrical Engineering.</p>
<p>I have a ton of extracurricular activities though so I still spend most of my time in school… I’m just doing non-academic stuff instead.</p>
<p>Anyone coming out of a prep school or a public with a heavy work load will have not problem with planning and managing the engineering work load. Same old same old.</p>
<p>Someone coming out of a pubic that had little homework and classes ended to 2:00 or 3:00 is going to be hit with huge learning curve on how to sustain school work 12 to 16 hours a day and fit fun in between.</p>
<p>I came out of one of those public high schools that had little homework, got out at 3pm, and I did quite well my first year in college. College work is different from high school work, they’re not going to assign you 50 math problems or 12 pages in a workbook. They may not even collect or grade homework. What matters the most is that you learn and understand the material, and however long that takes you, whether it’s by going over the lecture or doing massive homework sets, is how big your workload will be.</p>
<p>12-16 hours daily of schoolwork in college? Sure, maybe if you’re double-majoring and planning to graduate in 3 years. It’s not nearly that bad in reality.</p>
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<p>On the contrary, I’ve received near 100 problem homework sets due every other week when I took Calc. III. However, you are partially right; those problems were nothing near how easy high school problem sets were.</p>
<p>I’m surprised you got that large of problem sets in a college math class. I remember my Calc 3 class would assign at most ten problems a week, but none of the homeworks were collected.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t see how you can do 100 different problems on LaGrange Multipliers or whatever and not have it be the same thing over and over again.</p>
<p>I never had 100 problems in a problem set. Not even close. I usually had 5-10.</p>
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<p>The thing that ****ed me off is the grader only chose 3-5 problems out of the set to grade. </p>
<p>Wow, really? I’ve never had a college calculus class where homework was not collected.</p>
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<p>It was very tedious, but the material in Calc. III was obviously not just manipulations of LaGrange Multipliers. Look back at a Calc. III textbook, there was probably 30-60 questions per section in mine. If a prof wanted to be a real *******, he could assign you plenty of problems over a two week period.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Well, a lot of those questions are the same thing over and over again . . . bummer about your calculus III class though.</p>
<p>compared to my friends in the humanities, us engineers are booked throughout the week trying to get various labs and problem sets done and study for quizzes, but we get the weekends off. that is, of course, if you plan it right and treat it like a job.</p>