Spanish at Princeton

randombetch
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:57:22 +0000

First off, I mentioned what other classes I’m taking in order to describe the type of workload I’m anticipating my senior year



Ohh I didn’t realize you were planning on taking the Spanish class while in high school. I thought you were just randomly mentioning your AP classes.

Yeah just to let you know, my Spanish classes have consistently been an average of 1 hour per day of outside of class homework/studying. That’s a full 1.5~ hours per school day when you include class time, and more if you have to walk all the way to class.

You’re probably really bright, but is it really worth taking on an extra 10 hours of work per week? Let’s say you spend about half an hour a day on average for your other 6 classes, that’s still 4 hours a day of after school work you have to do, plus all your extracurriculars (right?)…

If you think you can write a 2 page (600 word) paper in Spanish within maybe 2-3 hours with relatively not that many grammatical errors on a non-trivial topic, then you should be okay with Span 207.

If I were in your shoes, I’d probably take the Spanish class too since I was also really ambitious. But I’m not sure if the marginal benefit is really worth the cost of 8-10 hours a week of work. You’re already taking multivar…