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Drill King:
Res parties suck man.
Hat:
--- Quote from: The Cheesinator on 01 Oct 2009, 18:16 ---On a side note, I find it a little ridiculous that some Arts students have 13 hours of school per week. I have 22, and I know that engineering students have upwards of 30.
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I have 9 hours of school a week but I also have a novel a week to read for four different subjects and by "novel" I mean something like the Brothers Karamazov or Ulysses and you gotta read the whole fucking thing and understand it which usually leads to me doing at least 40 hours of reading a week outside of that 9 nine hours of actual class time. And then as semester drags on I have assignments and presentations and a whole bunch of other shit. Linguistics is a little bit easier but I still probably do about 5-6 hours of reading each week on average across the semester for each subject (I haven't done any high level linguistics subjects yet) which as far as I can tell is about the same amount as most second year undergrad science subjects.
so while I appreciate that in some fields of arts might have a bullshit workload and even mine is not nearly as bad as some, looking at time spent in class is not particularly indicative of this
Also bear in mind that your hard work will probably get you a well paying job and my hard work will get me the ability to feel intellectually superior to my fellow food service industry drones
Social Bacon:
--- Quote from: Drill King on 01 Oct 2009, 19:49 ---Res parties suck man.
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Hey. Hey. Some of my greatest times of first year were the crazy rez parties, they're how I met a lot of my best friends. Maybe they're not your thing, but they totally worked for me and I would encourage all first years to give it a try.
Bastardous Bassist:
I lead a good life as a grad student. I usually get to only worry about things that I'm not doing on Sunday, rather than actually do them, which is nice this semester. Last semester I actually had to do work all the time. I get to enjoy my football team play, and that's awesome. I also don't generally have to do anything the rest of the day, so I can have beer on Sunday while I watch my team. I really should do stuff, but I don't have to. Maybe I should start going into the lab on the weekends. I'm technically not supposed to, but I don't think they'll know.
Barmymoo:
I go tomorrow! I'm so excited and a tiny bit nervous even though I have no reason to be because I already have friends there and my tutor is pretty nice as long as you work really hard. Almost everything is packed and all the things still in my room are basically rubbish that needs to be thrown out.
In terms of teaching, I get 10 hours of lectures a week totalling 40 a year (I have no idea how that works either) and then fortnightly supervisions, which are like seminars or classes or something.
While I was looking to find out how many hours I get taught, I found a thing about the ERASMUS scheme which basically allowed 20 students who achieved Honours in their second year and are proficient in another language to spend a year studying abroad. It's free! And you get a small grant. This is double reason to work hard and keep up my german; it looks like an amazing opportunity.
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