How much work

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>hey, </p>

<p>I know penn’s gonna be a lot of work because it’s ivy, etc., but I was wondering, just how much work are we talking about?</p>

<p>I’m gonna apply to the college and I plan on studying both sciences and english-type courses (not sure where I want to go yet). </p>

<p>For people in the college:</p>

<p>How much work does, say, a Biology/science major have? Are you up all night? Do only get two hours of sleep? I couldn’t do that. </p>

<p>How much work does, say, some kind of literature/writing major (american literature, cinema studies—that sort of thing) have?</p>

<p>What about kids in Annenberg studying journalism, etc.?</p>

<p>Look, I’m going to work really really hard in college because I’ll find something I’m passionate about and when I’m passsionate I work well…But I don’t want to be up all night, stressing 24/7. I want to take part in tons of ECs that’ll give me a different perspective on what I’m interested, and, pretty importantly, I want to party too!!!</p>

<p>Thanks everybody.</p>

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<p>Tough question to answer really. I know people who take tough schedules and study less than folks who take much easier stuff. In general nobody studies such that they get 2 hours of sleep per night on a regular basis.</p>

<p>Remember that you can take the minimum number or courses each term and lower your stress level. If you have done fine in HS you likely will be able to do the same at whatever college you choose.</p>

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<p>I am not in college so this answer does not reflect college experience, but rather experence in social sciences. Whenever you ask a person such a question the answer you would get would be very subjective. Unless you have a means of measuring everyone's answer. In order to do that you need to set up a system that defines the concept of "work" and keeps other variables in check. As you can tell this is not an easy thing to do, so you would not get very good answers as a result.</p>