Fun Stuff > CHATTER

University/College

<< < (26/500) > >>

supersheep:
Everyone I'd heard from who's done an Erasmus year has been rather happy with it. Some places don't even require you to know another language - a friend of mine spent third year in Warsaw without knowing much Polish - but that depends on your college and your department, I guess. I didn't do one, cos I like Dublin, but it's well worth going for.

(Also in only seven years time you will be an MA. Woo for archaic university traditions!)

Barmymoo:
If I wanted to study in the Netherlands I wouldn't need to know Dutch (a "willingness to learn" is required) but since I already speak fairly good german and I want to keep it up anyway, it makes sense to go with that. I'm going to look into taking some language courses alongside my degree; the website is confusing but it looks possible.

Woo MA for free! Although I can't help feeling it devalues it a little.

allison:

--- 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.

--- End quote ---

I'm at U of T too, and I'm an artsy. I have 15 hours of class a week, but about 30-45 hours of reading. Plus I'm working 30 hours a week at various jobs to pay for school. Less class time doesn't mean I don't work as hard.

Drill King:
I have 20 hours of class time and about 10-15 hours of 'homework'* per class, one class I have twice a week so I have about 50-60 hours of planned homework as set for by proffs, I can usually shirk that down to about 40 hours but plus 20-25 hours a week at my job. I don't know about art(s) students but as an art student I actually have more hours of work than any of my friends in undergrad and more than several of my friends doing their masters(only the engineers are doing more school time). Also their classes are shorter and more managable but as I've stated earlier I have 4 and a half hour classes of emotional exhaustion.**


This is just a little rant that I have been getting used to because my friends quite often go,"Hey, come out with us" "Can't, drawing then analysis" "Oh whatever, skip it, you go to university to learn to colour" ">:CCCCCC RGRGRGR -click-"

Basically, oh my gosh I am so in love with my life.


*Staying at my school for over twenty hours and drawing pictures of fucking hats over and over and over til I can get the lighting perfect.

**This is an important thing to realize about any arts course(visual or otherwise), that analyzing and reading and creating and writing and being creative is very emotionally tiring and draining.

supersheep:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 02 Oct 2009, 04:48 ---Woo MA for free! Although I can't help feeling it devalues it a little.

--- End quote ---

Yeah no way am I gonna go for the whole buying an MA thing. I will earn extra letters after my name the proper way: paying a shedload of money and doing a shit-ton of work.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page