<p>I just want to know how much actual studying you do in college. Obviously, it is significantly more than High school, but it is less classes and less "EC" to deal with. What major(s) are you and how long do you spend per day just studying? Do you lose any sleep over it? Do you get time to just study random things not part of school? Or research? a job?</p>
<p>Now, I heard double majoring would be suicidal, but my mentality is that the cores for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science overlap. Well i am a Junior in high school right now, honestly, I am not ashamed of staying a 5th year in undergrad to get my requirements for graduation in college.</p>
<p>I did Econ undergrad. Studied maybe 6 days per month (and lost 4-6 hrs sleep/mo). Not much sleep lost at all. Then again, I didn’t care too much about college grades - finished with a 3.5 GPA. Not bad, not great.</p>
<p>Double majoring for the sake of having two majors is generally useless. If you enjoy classes in a second subject, take them. If you are required to take several classes you don’t enjoy to get a double major, then don’t do it! The benefit is probably not worth the cost.</p>
That depends on your college. Double majoring at my school is generally considered to be suicide because one would then have to write two graduate-level theses.</p>
<p>Well, I am not doing it for the sake of doing it… I am going to be a research scientist, and my interests are inter disciplinary and I want to be a professor too.</p>
<p>I didn’t study at all in high school. Now my studying depends on what’s coming up and the class. Orgo one and two mean about 3 or 4 hours a day with the week leading up to it, and about 8 the night before. Biology is fewer, with 1 or 2 a day but I often end up pulling an all-nighter the night before. So yes I lose sleep, but if I was better at time management I probably wouldn’t, but my schedule is sort of stacked this year where major things are all within days of each other.</p>
<p>It all depends on what college you go to and how seriously you take your studying. I assure you, if you are going to a top college, you will be studying more than 2 or 3 hours per week. People should say what college they are going to because for all we know, you are studying 2 or 3 hours per week in a community college.</p>
<p>I didn’t really ever study in HS, and I guess I don’t really know how to study. For finals and exams in college though I have to study. Well, I have to if I don’t want there to even be a chance of me doing poorly. </p>
<p>When you walk into a final and it’s 40% of your grade, you better have studied enough to know you won’t **** it up</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily less classes to deal with… I’m taking 8 classes this semester… I study about 30-40 hours weekly. I only studied 20-25 hours weekly in high school, and I took 5 AP classes junior year and 6 senior year.</p>
<p>I got much more sleep and had much more free time in my freshman year of college than I did my senior year of high school. It really depends on how many classes you’re taking and how difficult those classes are. If you’re feeling overloaded, you can always drop a class before the deadline.</p>
<p>FYI: I was taking five AP classes in my senior year in high school, although two of them were only a semester long. I took one CP class, and an empty space in the morning so that I could come to school an hour late. In my first year of college, I was taking 14-16 units each quarter, which amounted to 3 or 4 classes each quarter.</p>
<p>I am a Mechanical Engineering student at New Mexico State University finishing my junior year now. I think EE and CS wouldn’t be a bad combo for a double major. Have you considered Computer Engineering as an alternative? They offer it at NMSU.
If you want to do research start talking to professors and get involved with undergraduate research.
They say the best way to estimate the amount of studying required is to plan for 2-3 hours of studying for every hour you are in class. So if you are taking 15 credit hours, plan for 30-40 hours of studying. With engineering courses that is pretty reasonable. The first two years aren’t nearly as bad but they can be.</p>
<p>Never studied in high school and I don’t really study now. I basically do the same I did in high school with a little extra added in. I REVIEW right before the exam or test and do fine. Thats just me and i’m sure that as I get to the higher courses later i’ll have to study more and more, depending on the class.</p>
<p>Depending on what school you go to double majoring can be suicidal, but for most schools that I know of it isn’t. In fact its become kind of a fad among our generation.</p>
<p>Depends on your school. Where I’m at, being a compsci makes it easy to double major in basically just about anything you can imagine. It can overlap with almost anything, EE would be very simple to do. But some have more complex requirements.</p>
<p>I’m in Compsci, and I don’t do much actual studying, except for a few days before my calculus exams. my cs classes dont have exams, just projects. my humanities classes have a final, which ill eventually have to study for, but most papers/reading. It all depends on the classes you’re in.</p>
<p>It depends on who you are and what major you’re taking. I never studied much in high school, made A’s. I still don’t really study right now - I spend a few hours doing homework and reading for classes, but I don’t go and do practice tests like some other people. I still make A’s. Other kids study like it’s crack. My roommate studies around 5 hours every day, but her major isn’t that hard. I think she’s just the type of person who needs constant review to understand the material.</p>