<p>Hello there, I am a freshmen in college and my question is: Is taking 5 classes in one day at college bad, including a chemistry lab in the evening? Is it overwhelming?</p>
<p>Don’t do it. You do NOT want 5 exams in one day.</p>
<p>I’m taking five classes on Tuesday next semester. In the past, I always felt like I had a LOT of free time, so I’m fairly confident that this will be manageable. You’ve only had one semester, I’m assuming, so it’s a little harder to gauge whether you personally will have a problem with it. Maybe I’m being overly optimistic but I think it will be okay. Presumably, every other day you will have no classes, right? So there will be time to catch up on work on those days. It’s not ideal but if that’s what’s best for your schedule, I don’t think it’s the end of the world.</p>
<p>This semester, my T/Rs are four/five classes, with a chem lab and then two hours of work afterwards. The only thing I’m not looking forward to is logistics of my stuff; everything else, fingers crossed, should be fine.</p>
<p>There are people who regularly do classes only on T/R or M/W/F so that they can work the other set of days. As long as you plan ahead for tests and big assignments, you should be fine.</p>
<p>That’s what my Mondays are this semester. Four classes and a physics lab in the evening. It’s going to be rough, but pretty much all the other freshman engineers at my school have to do some variant of the same thing, so it’s not totally unreasonable.</p>
<p>It’s not Tuesday that’s going to be rough, it’s Wednesday. Every single class will have an assignment due by the next class meeting.</p>
<p>On Tuesdays I go from 10am-6pm with a 3hour chem lab and a one hour break from 10-11. Needless to say, thats a pretty long and stressful day. If you can, I would say avoid it but the only way to take all the classes I wanted was to have a pretty bad tuesday.</p>
<p>I would say it depends on what day your midterms and exams are. If you end up with 4-5 tests on the same day, that’s going to suck. If they’re spread out, I don’t think the 5 classes is overkill, especially if that means you get say Friday off.</p>
<p>I’ve had three classes and a lab before in one day, and worked in the spare time. It isn’t terrible because I’m assuming that this means you don’t have many classes on all the others days. If you manage to get the homework done for the next day early, then it could be manageable, although I wouldn’t have recommended it.</p>
<p>I’d say it depends on how long the classes are. My classes aren’t that long due to the major I’m taking and I take 6 a day. But if you find you don’t have any down time during the day, that could be pretty stressful.</p>
<p>I have a 12 hour day on Thursday this semester, from 10 am to 10 pm. Physics, recitation, lab, urban sustainablilty, with a sizeable gap in between where, depending on the week, I have meetings or would have to hurry off to work for a few hours. It sucks.</p>
<p>If I didn’t have to do it, I wouldn’t. It’s just exhausting.</p>
<p>It sucks, but it’s doable.</p>
<p>Here’s my question: What type of schedule did you have in high school? Four classes a day? Seven? Eight?</p>
<p>That makes a difference on how prepared you are to handle the workload and scheduling imo.</p>
<p>I had between seven and eight classes a day every day in high school, so in coming to college, 2 or 3 a day was a breeze in comparison! I’m doing four a day right now and it really sucks, but I also know how to manage my time well because I took so many classes a day in high school.</p>
<p>Friends who only had three or four classes a day in high school weren’t usually as good about managing their time right off the bat in college.</p>
<p>I had all my classes only on MWF this past semester with an hour in between for lunch. It’s doable and it was worth having TR off, but it was hard sometimes sitting in one class after another, even with a break in between.</p>
<p>I had 5 on thursdays my freshman year spring semester starting at 9 am, ending at 9 pm, I hardly had time to eat between class.</p>
<p>At first it was overwhelming, but I did well, and it definitely kept me occupied and made the semester go by very quickly.</p>
<p>You can do it, but it will be strenuous</p>