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Will I have enough time?
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Heya.
Worked out in my first year I've got roughly 12 hours a week of lectures / seminars, and then a minimum of 3 hours on top studying (as I have to complete weekly assignments).
My brother has offered me a job on saturday and sunday, which would probably be fairly usual hours.
And then I want time to be social and join the rowing society, heh. Also, other things that I'm interested in doing but know I probably won't be able to afford / have time is:
- learn to play the piano
- get better at talking french!!
So all the people who've been at uni, how much 'free' time do you get anyway? Because throughout my entire life, I always seem to load up extra stuff into my timetable until I'm so stressed I can't cope with any more! Haha.
Cheers :-)
Worked out in my first year I've got roughly 12 hours a week of lectures / seminars, and then a minimum of 3 hours on top studying (as I have to complete weekly assignments).
My brother has offered me a job on saturday and sunday, which would probably be fairly usual hours.
And then I want time to be social and join the rowing society, heh. Also, other things that I'm interested in doing but know I probably won't be able to afford / have time is:
- learn to play the piano
- get better at talking french!!
So all the people who've been at uni, how much 'free' time do you get anyway? Because throughout my entire life, I always seem to load up extra stuff into my timetable until I'm so stressed I can't cope with any more! Haha.
Cheers :-)
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What course are you doing? Courses like engineering and so on require alot of study whereas people doing drama and english tend to be on a permanent holiday.
If your university has a language centre you'll probably have a chance to brush up your French by self-study. Is there an option to take French as a module of your course? If so, it could be worth doing if you fancy it, as it would be instead of another module so not eat into much more of your time.
Find out more about the hours for the weekend job and the activities you want to do. Try and make a timetable, and see what you can fit in, make sure you're realistic though.
Hope it all goes well for you at Uni!!:thumb:
But being quite competent at maths, I've never *really* struggled. It's just about getting the knowledge into your head. Apparently uni is different though...
If it doesn't sound too unreasonable mind, that's ok. Just worried that I'll have no time to do anything!! Don't think I'll actually study the french / piano - but would like to do it one day . j'aime la francais! (or whatever the correct usage is haha)
Why not? It'll give you a change from all the equations! Ask around and see what your departments says...
of course uni is different.
there's a big difference between a-level and degree level.
Just trying to work it out though... if I'm working sat/sun then when am I going to go shopping? There's always online shopping I suppose. Also, 4km isn't too far to go to work is it? (ish)
I still came out of the year with a 2:2 despite major health-related extenauting circumstances.
The moral of this story is, if you want to get things done you'll find the time.
you're not gonna work allllll of the weekend though, are you? loads of supermarkets are open 24hrs nowadays anyway.
you could always go shopping during the week, anyway. :yes:
Thanks guys, you know what it's like before you go worrying about EVERYTHING lol
Teaching methods Lectures 10 x 1hr
Seminars 6 x 1hr
Practical class: 1 x 1hr essay writing
Private study
42 hrs seminar preparation
20 hrs essay
10 hrs reading for lectures
10 hrs exam preparation
so for a single 1hr seminar, im expected to do 7 hours preparation. i don't actually do that but 3 hours on top of your lectures seems like a little bit of an... optimistic guess. Although i don't know your course admittedly.
BUT there are 24 hours a day, you only need two of those to eat and wash and 8 of those to sleep which leaves you 14 a day to play with if you're good with time management and your sanity can take it.
Sorry thats just what ive heard.
These are tasks based on the stuff in the lecture, and some students say if you get it it takes about an hour, or longer if you struggle. But if you get stuck you can often take it to the tutorial / seminar and discuss it then.
Although, it does say:
So in a 10 week term, that's 400 hours, so 40 hours a week. Sounds fairly reasonable actually, but does that mean I'll be doing 25+ hours private study?
Assuming this, will I *still* have time to work on saturday and sunday? When I was doing my A levels I worked 30+ hour weeks in school with a 12 hour job and found I had tonnes of free time.
Also, I've been told if you join the rowing society you have to get up at 6am every day and row for an hour although they may have been pulling my leg - looking at the determination of some rowers I'm not so sure. Ah well, it'll get me fit anyway
Also, when they say the questions/examples only take an hour that may be per lecture rather than per week. 25+ hours a week private study sounds about right, but like I said before, if you are keen to do and don't want to go out lots then you'll find time to work.
4km will take about an hour to walk (briskly).
Have to see how I get on when I'm there won't I? Sigh, it shouldn't be this much hard work lol!
And my mate who does drama is in class 9-5 or 9-3 most days.
:yes:
My drama buddies too. Not to mention that though they did finish at 4/5, they'd be back in the evenings and weekends for rehearsals and meetings and whatnot. I barely saw them.
Nope. I did write the word count equivalent of 6 good sized dissertations in my final year though.
At the end of the day some courses are easier than others, but you can't get through anything without applying yourself. I couldn't do a degree in drama, but neither would I want to. Law students have very few lectures, but have to learn the entire history of everything, pretty much (or so I'm told by someone who has a degree in Law). Whereas me doing Maths, I have no set reading at all!! I just have to do the lectures, then learn what was said in the lectures. But being Maths, this in itself can take a long time...
So, for comparison, who here is studying / has studied for their degree with a job on the side and how many hours a week did they spend doing what approximately? Because now people are saying I can have a job if I don't want a social life...
That's a point, check your uni rules, most have a limit or a recommendation.
Mind you, that's from the immigrant advice service. Still applicable I feel though... If only I could have got into Oxford then get my tutor to sort me out :thumb:
Its about making time really. I never usually work at weekends, I have time to do all of my assignments to a standard I'm pleased with and still go out and have fun if I want to.
You should get a tutor at York though too.