Academic workload + Sleep at Harvard

Elanorci
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:34:12 +0000

It can basically go either way. There are a lot of very easy classes that you can take, and if you only put those in your schedule, you’d easily get a lot of sleep. But there are also a lot of very hard courses. It really just depends on your major and/or ambition level.
Number of classes is another important factor. I took five classes letter-graded this semester, and even though no one of them was excruciatingly hard, together it was a lot of work, and I didn’t get as much sleep as I’d have liked. Five finals and two final paper in one week - needless to say, I didn’t sleep very much that week.
If sleep is important to you, you can definitely arrange your schedule so that you can get it.