Published on 12, July, 2020
A couple of days ago I posted on here about wanting to pay attention in lectures. However, I managed to have a look at my timetable today for September-December and I have 7 hours of lectures every Monday split into 9am-1pm and 3pm-5pm. Unfortunately, at least 4 of these hours are for a module where part of your grade is dependent on your attendance.
I know no one can help me, and the school has never done anything about timetable issues in the years gone past so it's not possible for this to get changed. I'm just very worried for how I am supposed to cope with this. It will completely wipe me out :(
9am-5pm with a 1hr lunch break is a typical standard working day. I haven't been to university but I would have assumed working 9-5 being a pretty standard, or is that not the case? My when I was at school it was 8am-6pm followed by 2hrs of homework after dinner - but that was boarding school so maybe normal schools differ.
If attendance is an issue, can any classes be taken online? Maybe you'd feel more comfortable in your own home rather than in a lecture theatre?
No actually this is a lot for university. I had 12 hours of lectures a week in my first year and only 9 hours a week in later years. Then there were practicals too. And my course was one of the ones with the highest number of contact hours (natural sciences). For the humanities, some of my friends only had 1-2 hours of lectures a week, the rest being independent study.