<p>Ok, I heard stress at Cornell is straight up CRAZY, as in, leads students to suicide. I have also read that many students spend disproportionate amounts of time on homework and studying, as in 4-5 hours a day. does anybody have any facts, stats, or insights into this.</p>
<p>experts across the board have said that one should spend 2hrs doing homework for every 1hr spent in class…</p>
<p>so if you go to class for 15hrs/week…you should spend 30hrs doing homework…</p>
<p>if you don’t try to keep this balance things can get WAY out of hand…</p>
<p>Depends on your classes and your personal time management ability, really.</p>
<p>Well, D texted me at 3Am the other night as she biked home from her studio - she was not alone in the studio… A lot of work but she loves iti.</p>
<p>If your asking then your clearly not going to fit in. Your going to have to sweat blood and tears going to this school. Try Harvard, or HaaahVuuuhd as they say, where Its hard to get in, but easy to get out. The Complete inverse of Cornell.</p>
<p>maybe it’s just me, or that cornell’s brainwashed me already,
but 4-5 hrs of study a day seems perfectly reasonable.
hardly disproportionate.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I assume your daughter is an architecture or art student. They have a very different experience than most other majors, where it would be very rare to be going home that late. As an engineer I’ve been in the engineering quad that late once in 2 years, and that was because I put off doing the project till the last minute.</p>
<p>Also while the architecture assignments are very time consuming, from what I’ve heard a large amount of the time architecture students spend in studio they aren’t really working, they’re hanging out with other architecture students.</p>
<p>4-5 hrs is nothing!!! </p>
<p>but it depends on your major and how many credits you are taking.</p>
<p>yesterday I spent a lot of the afternoon, probably 5+ hours, working on reading/homework but that didn’t translate into me feeling stressed out. it’s not an inherently stressful activity. it’s going to be a better long weekend now that I have that stuff taken care of. (and I even had time at night to watch a movie.)</p>
<p>I agree. I’m in high school, and I currently spend over 5 hours a night studying and doing homework. And at college, I’ll have less time in class and more time to complete it.</p>
<p>My daughter at Cornell was a lot more stressed about school work than her friends at other colleges freshman year. She knew how she compared to her friends from HS. She struggled to maintain a 3.5 at Cornell first year, whereas her friends at Penn, Georgetown, Haverford often received A- or above in similar courses.</p>
<p>She is a senior now. Over the years, there has been an upward trend on her GPA. She is also spending more time on ECs on campus and jobs (TA at AEM and working in an office). I don’t think it’s because courses are getting easier, I think she is adjusting to the pace and expectations. </p>
<p>It is part of the reason why employers like Cornell graduates. They tend to perform under pressure, and are very hard workers.</p>
<p>if you are a bio major / premed your classes tend to get easier as you go up.</p>