<p>Is this a good schedule for my first semester of college?</p>
<p>This is per week by the way</p>
<ul>
<li>10 hours of classes (5 classes: Intro to College Life, Psych101, Philosophy101, Essay Writing and Film101)</li>
<li>18 hours working</li>
<li>30 hours of studying (at least; eating is part of study time)</li>
<li>4 hours at the gym </li>
<li>63 hours for sleep (9ish per day) (Is that too generous/unrealistic?)</li>
<li>2 hours on Sunday to watch TV</li>
<li>However many hours walking to/from classes and work takes</li>
<li>Community service/volunteering during the leftover hours?</li>
</ul>
<p>I strongly recommend you don’t try to plan out your weeks like that. Just do whatever you feel like doing at the time.</p>
<p>I second that. I tried doing that before I actually started classes, and the schedule I made went out the window after a couple days of classes. You’ll develop a routine, but you can’t be sure of what that will be until you’re actually there and doing what you need to be doing. It’s good to have an idea of what you want to do, but don’t try to figure out your complete routine yet.</p>
<p>As for your class schedule, that sounds manageable. Just be prepared for lots of reading and writing.</p>
<p>A typical normal course load of college courses (15 credit units) should have about 15 hours of class time, and theoretically has about 30 hours of out-of-class time. However, individual courses vary (lab courses tend to be higher workload and non-lab courses tend to be lower workload). Also, overall workloads have been declining, perhaps because of technology (easier to write and edit your paper on a word processing program than the type of several drafts on a typewriter, or look up something on the web instead of going to the library, looking for books that might have the information in the card catalog, then reading through the books to find the desired information).</p>
<p>10 hours of class seems quite low. You should have 15-16 credits if you want to try and graduate in 4 years, ie. since you have no lab 5 3 credit classes + your Intro to college life seminar.
You’ll be lucky to sleep one 8 hour night per week 
You completely forgot clubs and activities, which are important to get involved, meet people, and build a resume (because from these clubs/activities leadership opportunities can spring.)</p>