Swat '07 Will Try to Answer Q's

momof3sons
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:24:49 +0000

I’d say I do work just about every night, although it varies from week to week. I’m a political science major, and so the only work for most of my classes is reading, except when we have papers due. Thus, when possible, I try to do my reading within a day or two of the class (at most). Otherwise, I find that the reading isn’t really fresh in my mind when I go to class. Thus, I tend to do more work on days before I have class. For instance, this past semester I had all of my classes on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, and so my Tuesdays and Wednesdays were particularly bad (and I often had to do reading for my Wednesday night class over the weekend).

In terms of total workload, I’d say that if you take Saturdays off (which most people do, more or less; I’d say the average Swattie works 2-3 hours on Saturday) expect to do 8-9 hours work, counting class time, 6 days a week. On a day with more class time, you’ll probably do less homework, and on a day with less class time, you’ll get more homework done.

Hope that helps you out. Obviously, this varies greatly between different majors.