I was in architecture. My roommate was a bio-chem major. Besides a full day of classes, I spent several hours a day in studio doing projects and my roommate spent several hours toiling away in the school lab.
All told, I lived in a house with several soccer teammates and we were all logging tons of time outside our normal classes in labs, studios, and elsewhere that were considered part of our normal class time which effectively extended the time professors expected you to be working on their stuff. Our weeks were just crammed hour to hour with homework, practices and games and trying to fit in 25-30 hours of part-time work a week to boot.
College was a blast, but it's not for the feint of heart or slacker.
Yeah, had a similar experience with my undergrad in CS.
The expectaton at the college I went to was that each credit hour roughly maps to 1 hour of lecture + 3 hrs of work outside of class. That estimate wasn’t even for getting an A, that was just to pass a class with a C. Which sounds like a lot, and it was, but you gotta account that this would include weekends as well (thus leaving some amount of free time, because otherwise it would require pulling 16 hour weekdays).
It definitely builds character, and I absolutely would do it the exact same way if I had to go back in time. However, I wouldn’t recommend my school to anyone who wants to do premed, because your GPA will needlessly suffer, and GPA is one of the primary importance metrics for med school acceptance.
I was in architecture. My roommate was a bio-chem major. Besides a full day of classes, I spent several hours a day in studio doing projects and my roommate spent several hours toiling away in the school lab.
All told, I lived in a house with several soccer teammates and we were all logging tons of time outside our normal classes in labs, studios, and elsewhere that were considered part of our normal class time which effectively extended the time professors expected you to be working on their stuff. Our weeks were just crammed hour to hour with homework, practices and games and trying to fit in 25-30 hours of part-time work a week to boot.
College was a blast, but it's not for the feint of heart or slacker.