<p>How is life at harvard??
Is it literally all work and no play??
Can any one give me an average day work load??</p>
<p>Yesterday:</p>
<p>Awake at 10 AM. Life is cruel!
11-12: Print and hand in a paper, get my add/drop form signed and dealt with
12-1: Lunch, e-mail
1-5: Attend class
5-6: Dinner
6-7:30: Work, read the New Yorker
Post 7:30: Research jobs, waste time on Internet, spend quality time with boyfriend, pretend to study</p>
<p>Today:</p>
<p>Awake at 10:50 AM.</p>
<p>11:30-1: attend class
1-2: Lunch, check e-mail
2-4: Attend class
4-5:30: Work
6-3:30: Study
3:30-5:00: Polish and submit job application
5:00-6:00: Waste time on Internet</p>
<p>People who have lives would probably be doing more lively things in place of the bits where I've put "waste time on Internet." So yes. There is plenty of time for that sort of thing.</p>
<p>sounds monotonous if you ask me</p>
<p>Wow, your day kicks ass! Damn, I wanna go to H sooo baaad!!!</p>
<p>does that mean u went to bed around 6am???</p>
<p>Churchill--</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, what is it with this college junk. They make you go to classes and study and stuff. It's terrible. Maybe you should hitchhike across Europe instead.</p>
<p>Betterday--
I went to bed at 6am and woke up at 1. One of the concrete ways in which college is way better than high school.</p>
<p>Yesterday:</p>
<p>10: got up
11-noon: class
12:30-1:30: did a presentation on summer thesis research
1:30: lunch and printed up stuff to read
5:30-6:30: class
6:30: smoothie and sandwich :)
7-10: work
10: mtg to do grants for student org.
11: homework, played on internet, submitted finished job apps
1 am: hung out with roommates
2 am: played on facebook
2:30: sleep</p>
<p>Today:
8:30 am: got up, went to gym
10-11: class
11: lunch
11:30-3: library to study
3-5: class
6-7: dinner mtg for student org
7-8: mtg for another student org
I plan on studying till around 11, then go to the bar for an hour or two then go to sleep. </p>
<p>Ummm this is a funny post. But that's what I do!</p>
<p>Could you elaborate on your schedules a bit? It seems to be a lot of work, which is fine, but I think we're all curious about how much "hanging out" goes on. Is there a laid back feel where people are just 'around,' or is everyone busy and always off to the next club meeting.</p>
<p>Well you hang out at clubs...the people in them are your friends, its fun meetings. I don't consider club meetings to be busy time. Also I don't have class on Fri., and only 1 hr of class on Mon. (a lot of ppl have similar class schedules, or even only 3 days/wk of class) and you can hang out more then. But generally, we don' tjust sit around. I have friends at other schools who sometimes say "yeah, I just didn't feel like doing stuff today so I just sat around and watched TV for 5 hrs"...that would never happen here.</p>
<p>"Churchill--</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, what is it with this college junk. They make you go to classes and study and stuff. It's terrible. Maybe you should hitchhike across Europe instead."</p>
<p>Ya, a little sarcasm makes me look soo smart</p>
<p>What is grading like at H? Do you have to work really hard to get A's?</p>
<p>My take on grading:
Work hard: B+
Slack off: B-
You have to work really hard to get an A, but at the same time, you really have to screw up to get a C. Your average Harvard student probably has a B+ average. In general, humanities are the most generous with high grades, social sciences in the middle, and sciences are the stingiest with the grades.</p>
<p>Of course, these are just generalizations... there are some humanities profs who are incredibly hard graders and some science profs who are easy graders...</p>
<p>Wow... It feels strange to be on the answering side of CC...</p>
<p>Anyway, darkburnout, I've only been here a couple weeks, but I find myself spending little time during the week studying outside of class (maybe 2 or so hours/day). That does leave me with tons of reading for the weekend, sundays are no fun at all. I'm also taking a relatively easy course load.</p>
<p>Harvard kids are, by their admissions status, used to being busy, so we keep ourselves busy here. If classes don't take up too much of your time, you'll just succumb to the extracurriculars (I'm comping the Crimson, volunteering in an afterschool program for elementary kids, working in a psych lab, playing IMs, and <em>hopefully</em> doing some stuff at the institute of politics if i can squeeze it into my schedule).</p>
<p>But even doing all this, I still spend a ton of time with my girlfriend, or just sitting with groups of friends at Annenberg, or chilling in my common room telling dirty jokes with my roommates/neighbors.</p>
<p>Anyway, feel free to PM me, anyone.</p>