17 credits too much for incoming freshman?

da6onet
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:49:39 +0000

I should probably add that with the above budgeting system I have managed to also juggle the following while attending school, not all at the same time, but a surprising amount of overlap:
-Stay at home dad (0-15 months old, ~50 hours per week, aka wife’s work schedule)
-Still a parent, now just with 8:00am-5:30pm daycare M-F (saves infinite sanity)
-2 part time jobs (~added to 20 hours per week)
-1 internship (10-15 hours per week during classes)
-2 cars, 2 cats, 1 fixer-upper house (chores/honey-do ~5 hours per week)
-Kept marriage intact (fractional minutes spent on this per week, wife will be happier once I’m out of school!)
-2 volunteer engineering projects (5-10 hours per week)
-1 volunteer programming project (8-20 hours per week)
-ExComm/Officer in 2 honor societies (5 hours per week)
-Sleep (5-7 hours per school night depending on workload, 8-9 on weekends)
-Procrastination/screwing around on phone (easily 20+ hours per week, maybe 50+)

I average around 60-65 hours per week with all time commitments added up (90 when I was a stay at home parent, yes that was tough). While I’m taking an extra year to graduate, I’m still going to end up with 150 credits in 5 years (some of that due to changing majors) plus whatever other jobs/projects I pick up while taking classes. So is taking 17 credits freshmen year doable? I’d say sure.