<p>how much time would you estimate you spend studying and doing homework outside of class for each credit taken? I'm trying to figure out how many credits I should take.</p>
<p>dont they say something like 2 hours a credit?</p>
<p>depends on the class...i spent twice as much time for my 3 credit honors orgo class than any of my 4 credit ones</p>
<p>and the professor.</p>
<p>So, but generally, if I take 15 credits will I be spending about 30 hours outside of the class? Also, if I take 15 credits, how much time can I be expecting inside of the class?<br>
It just seems like a lot.</p>
<p>"So, but generally, if I take 15 credits will I be spending about 30 hours outside of the class? Also, if I take 15 credits, how much time can I be expecting inside of the class?
It just seems like a lot."</p>
<p>Being a student is your full time job for the next 4+ years. When you think of it in those terms, it is a reasonable amount of time. Once of the most important things you will learn at school is how to manage and prioritize your time for your "work" and for your leisure. These are life skills that you will need for the rest of your life. </p>
<p>Sorry. Reality sucks. My advice for the day - don't go into accounting!!!! LOL - I am STILL working 55 hours a week and its summer!</p>
<p>If i may...I think the 2 hours-per credit thing is complete bs. I came out of the year with a 3.8, and I was WAY to busy with other stuff to even come close to 1 hour of studying per credit hour. When I ran for MSA, it was physically IMPOSSIBLE for me to come even remotely close to studying 34 hours a week...it was more like 5-6 hours. I say dump the rule and just study as much as you feel you need to. If you are caught up in a class and you understand the concepts, don't feel pressured to sit there and study needlessly.</p>
<p>KB</p>
<p>KB raises a good point - don't get caught up in the spending x hours for x class and y hours for y class - guidelines are just that, they are not hard or fast rules!</p>
<p>example: </p>
<p>I studied about 4 hrs a week for my symbolic logic class for the first few weeks of term. Never picked up the book after that until week before finals. Got an easy A.</p>
<p>I worked on my engin design project for at least 4 hrs a day (~20 hrs a week) throughout the term, and got an A-.</p>
<p>4 hrs a day? That's A LOT. I doubt I could handle a workload like that.</p>
<p>It depends on the course cmon...for most people taking English 125 isn't necessarily going to be that tough or time consuming than say organic chemistry. </p>
<p>might be just me and a lot of people get ****ed at me for saying this...but we all know the sciences and maths are the hard classes and the other stuff is a load of junk lol</p>
<p>(warning: some sarcasm and joking around may be intended. Please don't get offended)</p>
<p>I think that might just be because math and science go deeper into difficult material, and builds upon itself and get's increasingly difficult. Humanities/social sciences are just a lot of stuff that's interesting, but not necessarily difficult to comprehend or dependent on other course material.</p>
<p>Assuming you are an average students at Michigan, taking a normal load (13-17 credits), and aiming for a 3.4-3.5 GPA, I'd say 3-5 hours per day during the week,4-6 hours per day on weekends. But it really depends on your learning style, your goals etc...</p>
<p>it's really about manipulating the system and working with it. for most intro engin classes, everyone gets basically the same grade. u turn in work that is immaculate, you get a B. you turn work that is s h i t, you get a B.</p>
<p>Just an opinion of mine, but I think it's easy getting B's at Michigan...but it's, most of the time, really hard to get A's...as a premed that is</p>
<p>Wow...the worst students at my school study for 4-6 classes 10-15 hours a week...this might actually not be too bad.</p>
<p>I barely studied at all in high school (2-3 hours a week) and the main studying I did was for my college classes and still, I didn't study that much...then again my school had no APs and was an "F" school.</p>
<p>You know people... you are on CC, and if you are on CC including myself...you are probably one of those messed up kids who think everything academically isn't so bad at UM lol</p>