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Bastardous Bassist:
In technical courses, if you understand the material, you don't have to do any work outside of class (I was a physics major). With art (and music) classes, even if you understand, it requires practice and practice and practice. For my 2 hour credit lesson classes (technical classes with labs were twice that) I would be practicing around 15 hours a week easy and that's not counting rehearsals and jam sessions (so that I could make money once the people I jammed with offered me gigs) that I had. So, my music degree took far more work than my physics degree, despite the fact that my classes took more hours.
The Cheesinator:
--- Quote from: allison on 02 Oct 2009, 05:54 ---
I'm at U of T too, and I'm an artsy. Less class time doesn't mean I don't work as hard.
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This much is true. I'm not saying it's ridiculous that I should have to spend so much time in class and that you don't, but that that constitutes as a school week. I'm just a bit shocked, it's a fairly drastic change from the comparatively strict high school regimen of six hours at school day-in-day-out that I've been subjected to for the past four years. I feel like 22 is pretty slim as it is.
Admittedly I have little to read, just the textbooks in science and math, which I usually forgo anyway in favour of paying attention to lectures and doing the odd homework problem. Intro to Film Studies actually has a pretty interesting textbook, probably the only reading I look forward to doing.
I've got a part-time job, 16ish hours a week. Guess I'm saving off to pay my government student loan, if anything. Also, booze don't come for free.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Drill King on 02 Oct 2009, 07:28 ---**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.
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so is not doing this but not being creative. i think this is what "work" feels like
Allybee:
I just calculated and I only actually have about 16 hours a week but I'd estimate I have upwards of 40 hours of work depending on the week. I am constantly in the library ahhhh. plus I'm starting to get involved with like a ton of other things (doing an art collective, radio station, afterschool art program at the middle school, social committee, etc). I feel like here I'm turned to my highest setting 24/7. I have almost 0 downtime, except at 3:18 AM after turning in for the night. I'm enjoying school but oh my god boys please actually stop putting your hands on me ahhhh. except for one boy I actually like who I barely talk to :[
so inteeense.
JD:
Man you guys are not making me feel good about whenever I go to college. (2 yearsssss)
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