Malik1992

I'm taking a Saturday class on Black Diaspora, from 1:10-4 pm. Have any of you had experiences with classes this long before?

comiclover

why saturday?! whyyyy?

My informal language classes at night were that long. It gets boring after an hour and a half then you kinda want to leave but it's not horrible. If its all lecture and its boring lecture, I feel sorry for you. And the fact that its in the middle of the day on Sat sort of stinks.

Malik1992

I had to take a history class, and my first choices were gone. This was the only timeslot to take it, so I just said whatever, I'll sacrifice a Saturday afternoon.

Canadian_EE

I've never had a Saturday class, but the vast majority of my classes are 3 hours long (I even had a 4-hour class once). I'm pretty used to them by now (rising senior), so I don't find them too bad, provided I find the subject interesting and/or the professor doesn't speak on the same tone all class long.

arachnophobia12

I took a 3-hour, Saturday class last semester (the horror!)--I dropped it after three sessions...

Cboe

I wouldn't tie up my Saturday, never, unless I had no alternative.

icanread

That sounds horrible. It means you can never hang out during the day on Saturdays- which is a complete bummer.

chuy

There's football on saturdays though.

I honestly would delay graduation a semester or overload a future semester before I'd ever consider taking a saturday class, let alone one during football season.

cbr27

To get back to the OP's original question regarding what it's like to have a 3 hr class, I took a night class last semester and it sucked; I'd never do it again for a lecture class unless I absolutely have to.

I suppose a 3 hr lecture may not be so bad assuming you're really into the subject matter and have an interesting and engaging professor.

SingDanceRunLife

I've been taking a 2 hours class this summer, and let me tell you, that's more than enough! I honestly cannot imagine taking a 3 hour class because I would be bored out of my mind and wouldn't be able to focus after the first 1 1/2-2 hours.

I may or may not be in a 3 hour sociology class in the fall...my first schedule said I was, but my second had me in a different one (1 1/2 hour section twice a week), so I have to wait til my final schedule comes.

RacinReaver

I had a number of two hour classes as well a class that ran from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM on Thursday nights. I didn't mind the late class since I'd grab an early dinner and get to zone out a bit through class. It was an econ one, so there was hardly any thinking required; I just had to take some notes and be sure to do the homework at some point in the day before class.

filmeister

why would you want to do that to yourself

comiclover

"I'll sacrifice a Saturday afternoon."

You mean every Saturday afternoon. For a whole semester.

AtomicCafe

I've had a 3 hour class (5 days a week, 7am to 10am), and it was the best class I've ever taken. Maybe that was due to the fact that I loved the subject and had an awesome professor, but it was great. We did get 10 minute breaks every hour, and it actually didn't get boring or hard until my hands finally went numb from typing on the last day of lecture.

rsala004

class on black what?