I’m in my senior year of high school and I’ve enrolled into the MOWR program. I am taking 5 college classes including Psych, World Religions, Algebra, Sociology and Eng 101. Two of these are off of my HS campus and on the college campus and one is online. Is it all too much? It’s only been a week and I’m already struggling with the College Algebra, I am super terrified of failing. I’m also taking a weight lifting class and a normal Ecology class. I am thinking of dropping weight lifting to fit in a study period but I’m still stressing over it. Not only that but I also want a part time job but honestly I’m so confused and scared, was this a bad idea? Could someone give me honest feedback? Thank you!!!
not if you can handle them
5 college classes + 2 high school classes = too much. Drop one of your college classes (Psych, World religions, or Sociology). I doubt weight lifting is giving you too much work but you could perhaps switch it to next semester?
You need to learn several things about college classes. First, they are more like independent studies in which you are responsible for learning content than high school classes where teachers impose organization and requirements. College classes meet about three hours per week and a reasonable class load is 12 to 15 class hours weekly. The rule is about three hours study per one hour of class time. If your five classes each meet three hours weekly, then your class load is 15 hours. That equates to 45 hours study and reading and working on assignment…weekly. Very few people prepare at the three times for every in-class hour because each subject presents its own demands and scheduling requirements. When I looked at your five college classes, I saw that you had four classes that are likely to be reading intensive. Depending on your reading skills and actual reading demands of each class that could be really demanding. If five class load is too much practically because of reading or something else, I suggest dropping the one with the heaviest reading load.
LynchburgIn college, it is necessary for you to balance class loads by level of difficulty, interest, preferred faculty, amount of reading, availability of text through an electronic library, previous experience or comfort with class content, etc. You want college to be interesting and challenging without causing an overload on your time and energy or, conversely, wasting your precious time on a schedule that is too light. Unlike high school, colleges expect many students to add or drop classes at the beginning of terms.