<p>I’m not trying to avoid work. It’s called maximizing the time that you have. I’m worried that I may lose focus by sitting in class for 3 straight hours. My time might be better useful if I could sit through 2 hours, take a break and then take another class.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>When she said ‘I’m going from 8 - 3something with only ten min breaks in between’ it reminded me of something.</p>
<p>Highschool was 7 hours with 10 minute breaks.
Does anyone remember that?</p>
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<p>I’m the same. Besides, I don’t get how some are saying they aren’t used to it. High school was hours straight through. Middle school was hours straight through. Elementary school was hours straight through. If a bunch of squirming second graders can handle school from 8am to 2pm, I think college students should be able to.</p>
<p>You guys will see after you start that having a bunch of little breaks is actually a waste of time. Just means you will finish your classes for the day later.</p>
<p>You mean I actually have to go to class in college?! And learn!? Everyday?!</p>
<p>Oh noes!</p>
<p>Personally I’d rather get all my classes over with as quickly as possible. At least I’ll be done by 3:30 every Friday and will have the rest of the night to start my homework or relax. And really, what am I going to get accomplished during say an hour break if I factor in walking back to my dorm, getting and eating a snack/meal, and walking back in time for my next class? Ok, maybe I’ll get a little work or extra studying done, but if I’m going to have breaks in between I want them to be long enough so that I can actually do something productive.</p>
<p>I hate doing the “one-upper” but I think in this case examples are helpful. I am currently in summer school where classes are double session, 2:45 each. I am taking 2 classes and a lab, and am in school from 11-8 Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s really not that horribly bad, yeah you do not get a whole lot of time to eat, but it is similar to having a full time job and being in an office for 9 hours. During regular semester I try to take 2 classes back to back at 1:15 each, I think that it would be a huge inconvenience to have to take a bigger break in between, and you should be perfectly okay not eating for 3 hours. I remember Fall of last year where I had one class from 8-9:15 A.M and one from 8-9:15 P.M the same day, talk about ruining your day.</p>
<p>I’m going to try taking 4 back to back 75-minute lectures on T/Th next semester. It’ll be brutal, I know, but my Tuesdays and Thursdays have always been brutal. One semester, I was in class from 9 to 4 with two 2-hour blocks (granted, one was a recitation, but the one after that was a 2-hour seminar) and two 75-minute lectures. I’m sure I’ll be exhausted and totally unmotivated to do work at the end of the day, but I really don’t have any other options, since the classes I want to take aren’t offered at any other time.</p>
<p>While I hate getting up in the morning, I prefer morning classes because I like having the afternoons and evenings to study or relax. First semester, I had a 6:10-7:25 pm calc class. While the material was easy, I hated going to class when everyone else was going to dinner.</p>
<p>I did 4 classes back to back MWF last semester. I started at 8:30 and was done by 12:30. I liked being done early, and i didn’t have trouble paying attention, though one of the classes was sort of a joke, so it wasn’t like I was heavily concentrating for four hours. I had a lab after that 4 class block on wednesday, which I have to say was the worst decision I ever made. 3-4 is okay in my opinion, but more than that and you’re looking to fail.</p>
<p>As someone else mentioned, MWF would be easiest. T/Th would probably be a lot more difficult with four classes.</p>
<p>High achievers and stellar time managers may be able to handle more than three hours of classes or even back to back classes daily; the average B student will generally find this overwheming as far as content, time management and homework, tests, papers, reading requirements, etc. Freshman courseload for the average/above average student is generally recommended to be 15 credits, which should give you perhaps two hours of classes daily or back to back classes daily, perhaps with a day off, or several blocks of time daily free. If you are taking 18 credits, with labs, and are one of the A students with time management skills and are motivated to do so, almost any schedule will work for you</p>
<p>Know yourself, your time managment, motivation level and limits - the purpose of college is to be successful, learn and absorb what you are learning, prepare yourself for a job with a degree and to ENJOY YOUR TIME AT COLLEGE…not to stress yourself into an overloaded course schedule…</p>