<p>I am applying to the University of Chicago, and I have heard a lot about the intense workload experienced by students there. I have many extracirrcular interests, of most importance distance running and singing. Would being on both the Cross Country and Track teams (12 hours/week) combined with private voice lessons and maybe one of the choirs (6 hours/week) be altogether too demanding?</p>
<p>If you are looking to continue an extracurricular involvement for 18 hours a week with no extra job or whatever, I think you'll be happy, but busy. This year, (my first year), I kind of floundered around and realized that I had something in college that I didn't have in high school: TIME.</p>
<p>So while if you compare a high school assignment and a college assignment side by side, you might come to the conclusion that college assigns however much more work, also note that you are in classes for 3-4 hours a day. If you do EC's for another 3-4 hours a day, and you have 2 hours total to eat meals and check facebook, and say that you want a healthy 8 hours of sleep, you will still have 6 HOURS to work. That's a lot.</p>
<p>I know somebody who has done every EC imaginable here (she was in a show, she works for the admissions office, she tutors, she volunteers every week, etc. etc. etc.), she's a good student, she goes to bed by 11:30 every night for an 8 am wakeup, and she parties on Friday and Saturday nights. She's able to get it all done because she's learned how to work efficiently.</p>
<p>I'd say the chances that you'll end up doing all of those are pretty low. You can, and some people do, but most students come in with a list of clubs and activities they want to do and end up trying to do all of them and having no free time, choosing a couple, or not doing any and just spending more time procrastinating and hanging out. They're all happy in the end. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>^^^ that was my experience... my EC's now are completely different from my EC's in high school, and it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do.</p>
<p>it is tough. I am here for the summer session taking intensive language.
I usually get a few hours of homework a day, and a million hours of studying.<br>
I have an A though so yeah</p>
<p>I have to say though, intensive language (U of C is known for ridiculously fast intro language sequences) and what you'll be experiencing throughout the school year is a little bit of apples to oranges.</p>
<p>Arguably the most time-intensive classes at the U of C include high-level physics classes, language classes (especially Near Eastern languages, as the school offers a really intense NELC major, though my Spanish classes were pretty easy and not much more challenging than AP level), Honors Analysis (students pledge to do 30 hours of work a week for the class), and, on a more doable scale, Organic Chemistry.</p>
<p>yeah, im in japanese right now.</p>