<p>Where do college kids go to study? To do homework and other assignments? I have a small room, with a roommate, and I was wondering where college kids go to get their work done? I know the library is always there, but is it normal to go there for a couple of hours EVERYDAY?....</p>
<p>This year I plan to study mostly in my room since I’m in the honors dorm and it’s a lot quieter with larger rooms than the regular freshman dorm I was in last year. My roommate is the same as last year and he’s an engineering major too, so we have similar study habits/needs, so he won’t be a problem. </p>
<p>Last year when I needed quiet time to complete an important paper or study for a major test, I either did it late at night in my room after the floormates quieted down or else I worked in the library.</p>
<p>In my room 90% of the time. All homework is always in my room unless I do it with a friend in their apartment or something. Somewhere else where I can plug in my comp if I am out and don’t feel like going back to my room before a test. I don’t really like libraries for studying for long periods of time. I like places where I can eat and cough without people glaring at me. </p>
<p>My roommates are usually never loud so I don’t have to run away.</p>
<p>On a regular day, I study when no one is home, or I stay at the school and go to the library. If I have a paper or test coming up, I tell everyone to leave me alone and be quite and study in my office.</p>
<p>My room is pretty quiet, so I like to study in there. If I’m researching something (pretty common), need total quiet (rare – I like some noise), or want to be around people, I go to the library. My roommate is ALWAYS at the library because she thinks our dorm is too loud, and I know plenty of others who go in there as well.</p>
<p>When I want to be totally alone, I go into an empty classroom or building. You have to search around for those to make sure there’s no class at a certain time, but it’s sort of nice when you’re on a really tight deadline and can’t have any distraction.</p>
<p>I take afternoon classes and study at the library in the morning. It works well.</p>
<p>^^^ The thing is, that I can’t concentrate if someone else is in the room, it just throws my concentration off…Also what if my roommate feels like watching tv while I am in the middle of studying, then I would have to get up and walk all the way to the library. I dont know its kind of hard to see how you guys manage to study in your rooms while living in a small room with a roommate…</p>
<p>Do your roommates spend a couple of hours EVERYDAY in the library? The head of my schools science department told me that in order to be successful (have a 3.7 + gpa) I should be studying around 5-6 hours outside of class everyday(this inculdes hw/papers/studying for upcoming tests/reading assigned readings).</p>
<p>I know they exist at the Univ. of Vermont but I’m sure they exist elsewhere: quiet rooms. Some building(s) on campus are bound to have a small classroom-sized space set aside for quiet studying, likely near the dorms. You could also find a lounge in one of the classroom buildings or res halls that’s quiet enough to study in. </p>
<p>Shouldn’t be too hard, and you should be able to figure this all out within a week or two of being there as you’ll explore the campus quite a bit, intentionally or not.</p>
<p>For the 5-6 hours of studying a day: it depends on your classes. I’ve been in a class that really did require something close to that and some that involve maybe 1 hour of work per week. You can usually tell how it’ll be after the first week.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about a roommate watching TV when you want to study, set some ground rules. Have a few hours each day set aside for quiet time in the room and some for his TV time. Thankfully, I got lucky: my roommate and I both hate TV, and we both plan on studying quite a bit. Our schedules work out well enough that we take breaks together, study together, and then have time left over.</p>
<p>i don’t really study ever… i don’t know how everyone is studying so much. i do cram almost around the clock before finals though. i do all my assignments, problem sets, and readings in my room usually, and study in the library before midterms and finals (for almost 10-12 hours a day haha) </p>
<p>the weird thing is last year i lived really quite far from the library, and our laundry room (lol) is located in the basement and NOBODY ever goes there and it’s nice and air-conditioned / heated, with a hugeee round table and sofas… so i usually chill there and do all my laundry every week and “study” there haha</p>
<p>During school hours I’d study in the library, and when I was too lazy to walk to the library I’d study in my car. I spent 5 hours studying in my car for my speech final.</p>
<p>I study in the study lounge in my dorm. I can’t study in my room without getting distracted.</p>
<p>5-6 hours? Maybe if you’re a slacker who puts it all off until the day before it’s do. I use parts of my Saturday and Sunday to do some ‘studying’ and to look over my assignments for the next week but in exchange I have MAYBE 2 hours per night of homework. I start papers way before they’re do and I do problem sets/review sections for math/science classes as they come so I never have to cram 500 review problems in the night before a test. And I have a 3.9 GPA, so it obviously works. </p>
<p>My job is in the library and as such, I pretty much get paid to check out books and do homework during my shift. It’s good stuff.</p>
<p>I study in my room…I am not easily distracted and noise doesn’t bother me. We also have study lounges on each wing of each floor of my dorm where I sometimes go if I really need quiet. There are people at my school that live in the library…but I personally hate our library…it’s stuffy, too quiet, and full of boring-ness.</p>
<p>You go where you have to go for however long you have to be there to get your **** done to the level you’re pleased with.</p>
<p>^ lawl trufax</p>
<p>Misssilver- that is not always true. Some people have to study more to get A’s. Others have schedules that require extra work. I know I usually study and do homework for 2-4 hours a day on average.</p>
<p>do =/= due
i just had to say it</p>
<p>“5-6 hours? Maybe if you’re a slacker who puts it all off until the day before it’s do. I use parts of my Saturday and Sunday to do some ‘studying’ and to look over my assignments for the next week but in exchange I have MAYBE 2 hours per night of homework. I start papers way before they’re do and I do problem sets/review sections for math/science classes as they come so I never have to cram 500 review problems in the night before a test. And I have a 3.9 GPA, so it obviously works.”</p>
<p>That’s the best way of doing it. That was my strategy last semester and I got a 3.9 as well (would have been higher but one prof. dropped my A to an A- because of missing class one too many times … even though I got an A on EVERY test, paper, and assignment)</p>
<p>I usually study in bursts whenever I have a little time to kill. 20 minutes here and there throughout the day really makes the evening workload managable.</p>
<p>I study in an empty classroom because it is quieter than the library and the desks are more spacious. A quiet room to yourself beats a small cubicle in the library any day. But unfortunately you have to bring all your books with you.</p>