<p>this is more oriented toward the students of high ranking colleges...</p>
<p>how much time do you really need to put in to do well? how many hours do most people study per night? what happens on weekends?</p>
<p>for those of you who work campus jobs, does the time working interfere too much with studying?</p>
<p>i hope to see college like a full time job. I hope to attend classes, work for 2 hours or so, and study and be able to finish everything by 8 or 9 at night so i have time to relax. will this work?</p>
<p>I can answer some of your questions...college is all a test of time management. Your friends want to go out to eat, but you have a paper due. Do you go out and pull an all nighter to finish? Or, write your paper and get a good night sleep? You should have time for a few hours of work a week. Just don't overload because it's easier to add hours than find someone else. It also is great if you can get an on-campus job that you can do homework while on the clock. Use your between-class time wisely, and plan ahead. Keep a day planner, and plan time for fun as well as school and work! How many hours you spend on homework depends on the week, your classes, major, work ethics, how fast you study, etc. It would be wrong for me to try to put any number on it. After the first two weeks or so you'll probably get a feel for it.</p>
<p>thanks. yes, I know this kind of question is something that depends on the person, but I thought I'd give it a shot</p>
<p>I'm an MIT student, and I study/work on homework for several (4?) hours per night. I also do homework on Saturdays if necessary (it sucks, but if it has to be done...) I work 15-18 hours a week at a lab on campus, and I participate in a club sport. I try to get to bed by about 1 AM every night, although that doesn't always work out.</p>
<p>I actually find that the busier I am, the more efficiently I finish my homework. Freshman year, when I was only working 7 hours a week, I lazed around a lot more and had trouble with procrastination.</p>
<p>I agree with kwtortoise that planning is key. Keeping a detailed schedule helps me get everything done in little chunks rather than putting it all off until the night before it's due. It's definitely possible to work, study, and have time for relaxation, but you have to be sort of organized about it.</p>
<p>I think I stayed up the latest during the last few weeks of high school. IB/AP testing was done for the most part so most of my classes involved no homework at all and I wasnt working (the bakery I worked for closed in january...). Whenever there was a little assignment or something stupid to be done in a class (non-IB or otherwise), that would keep me up and busy (well not the actual assignment, but procrastinating for the assignment) much longer than a night full of homework.</p>