<p>I was just wondering how much time you spend out of class doing work? Also, how much of it is voluntary, like reading the textbook or studying for tests, and how much of it is for work that is actually going to be turned in? Lastly, if you guys could, compare this amount of work to the average accounting student. Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>I am majoring in civil but I just finished all my general engineering and a couple civil classes so this is coming from early in the major. The general engineering classes did not take much time out of class other than a project here and there. The 2 civil courses I have taken took more time but I still had plenty of free time and still was not much work out of class other than studying. I don’t know allot about accounting but I know comparing a 15-17 hr schedule between the two the accounting major has it easy (at least from the friends I have who are in various business majors). Seems like they are in class half the time taking the same number of hours. I guess labs take allot of time and I have 3. Do which ever sounds more fun you will have free time with both.</p>
<p>I found that a lot of my out-of-the-classroom time was spent on group projects and group lab reports during my junior and senior years. The amount of time spent will vary based on the abilities of your team members, the cohesiveness of your group, and to a lesser extent, the organizational abilities of your leader (whether appointed or by default).</p>
<p>It’s difficult to say what’s “mandatory” and what’s “voluntary.” You can get away with doing little to nothing outside of class (it’s not like high school), but don’t expect to be able to pass the course. Quite a few of my courses awarded grades based almost entirely on the midterm and final. Some of my professors did not even collect and grade homework assignments.</p>
<p>I have absolutely no idea what’s involved in being an accounting major.</p>
<p>thanks for the info guys. this makes me feel a lot more comfortable about being an engineering major. i really thought that they just woke up, went to class, ate lunch, did homework, ate dinner, went to class, and stayed up til 2 or 3 doing homework and then repeated the same thing every day. but obviously this is not the case.</p>