<p>im wondering whats the average amount of free time someone has? cuz the city is a big attraction but some people complain that they never have enough time to go out of the campus to do stuff in the city because of heavy workloads. is this true?</p>
<p>My weekdays are kind of swamped, but there's always time to get downtown on the weekend. Some weeks are busier than others, but I've never not done something in NYC that I wanted to do because of workload--sometimes I've had to push it back a week or pulled a later night than usual to catch up, but there's always time to relax.</p>
<p>Also it depends on your major. A lot.</p>
<p>i second that metsfan.....your major is the biggest determining factor....in general the amount of free time looks like this:
humanities > econ/social sciences > pure sciences > engineering
of course those can be broken down further</p>
<p>Oh, I'm an English major, history concentrator, writing program participator (I guess is what you call that one) if that helps in qualifying my earlier post.</p>
<p>And if you're double-majoring in a pure-science thing and and engineering/math-like thing, you won't have time to do anything other than the necessities, and will have relatively posts on college confidential.</p>
<p>Even if you are a whiling comp lit major, demanding extracurriculars can take a huge bite out of time to "explore the city" as well. Senior year very few people I know seem to do anything downtown; everyone is leader of this-or-that.</p>
<p>Plus, while the workload is more substantial for engineering than for philosophy or english, what is assigned in humanities and social science classes is certainly quite hefty, even compared to "high workload" schools like Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, enough time to spend on here.</p>