My Insights

I was taking about 15 credits up until this Monday and working about 14 hours a week. It is common belief that one needs about 2 hours of study time (per week) outside of the classroom for 1 credit-hour spent in the classroom. Let us do some calculations here … 15 credit-hours X 2 = 30 hours of studying outside the classroom + 15 hours in the class + 14 hours at work + 6 hours of commuting to work (1hr each way). That all comes out to … 65 hours per week. Even full-time employees work only 40 hours a week! In any case, I think some of my supernatural friends might be saying right now, “So what?” Well my friends, reality check here: I’m not supernatural. All arguments aside, as some of you might know, I ended up dropping my Math class after all. The hands were shaking not because I still had some hope of surviving in that class … no! My hands were shaking because I was scared of dropping the wrong class by mistake. So the whole point is that now I am down to 11 credits and mainly only 3 classes to worry about - history, chemistry and computers. Life is good down here at 11 and you know what? As long as I take a comfortable courseload, work enough to pay off my tuition, nobody should have anything to complain about! And this way I get to enjoy my college experience rather than overpressuring myself to do some crazy amount of work.

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