<p>I've got a great academic record but am somewhat lazy. If I attend Columbia, will I be working my ass off all the time to get by?</p>
<p>nobody here will say, "no, you don't have to work hard to get good grades at CU. Don't worry."</p>
<p>I don't know about undergrad, but one of my friends attending graduate school of social work says it's a piece of cake and that the hardest part was just getting in.</p>
<p>i've heard that, in terms of workload, the college isn't that bad, and fu is dynamic (sometimes very easy, often hard).</p>
<p>At Columbia, you can coast with B's by doing very little. If you're happy with B's, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>FU student here: Clarifying the standpoint: FU students will work very hard and have less of a life compared to columbia students. They have less of a social life and rarely interact with columbia students. </p>
<p>Questions: Average how many hours of time open outside of homework and classes do we get? Do we have time for an intermural sport? a club? How sleep deprived do we get? </p>
<p>ok I'm done for now... thanks to whoever answers.</p>
<p>math/science at the college can be just as rigorous as engineering in SEAS. even the advanced econ classes, for example, can get difficult. to say that students at the college work less than those at SEAS is such a blanket-statement.</p>
<p>eh bs are fine with me i guess
i want to ENJOY my college experiance</p>
<p>Yeah, and English majors in the College spend all day lying in the sun and watching daytime television.... You can't legitimately say anything unless you've been on both sides.</p>
<p>From my visit and talking to the students from both CC and SEAS, it doesn't seem true that SEAS students rarely have time. They can work very hard and really care about their work, but still have time for lots of fun. It is even more false that they rarely interact with CC students.</p>
<p>SEAS students interact ALOT with CC students simply because there are 1000 of them and only 300 engineers in each class. Also, first two years you really dont take very many engineering courses and your math and basic science classes will be full of CC kids. </p>
<p>In SEAS, it depends on your personality, but for every person in SEAS who is social and genuine and tries to enjoy life, you will have one that is locked up in their room all day studying and only socializes with people who will help them get ahead.</p>
<p>I suppose I just happened to meet the social SEAS students. I'd say I met 10-15 SEAS current students when I was there. Some of them were extremely social, and none seemed "nerdy" and not social, far from it. I'm sure there are many not social ones.</p>
<p>Shraf, what did you mean simply because SEAS students are outnumbered by CC that they interact with them?? From my 3-day stay at Columbia, they all hang out fine, and none distinguishes between "oh you're SEAS" or "but you're CC"</p>
<p>i was trying to say that it is more likely that you will interact with CC students often simply by looking at pure statistics....it is hard to "rarely interact" with the majority of students. </p>
<p>Also, days on campus is not a good way to guage what people are like in general. Yes, there are SEAS students of the kind you describe but they are in the minority. Of course noone who sits in their room and does nothing but work all day will host a days on campus student nor will he be the person socializing with the prefrosh.</p>
<p>Agreed that Days on Campus are not typical days. I arrived a day early, and throughout the days I wandered around mostly by myself and spoke to many students I just met outside. Met plenty of SEAS students who I hit it off with. But agreed that I wouldn't even meet the not social ones if they just study in their rooms. I assume you're a CU student?</p>
<p>SEAS (BME) 2007</p>