<p>Here’s an actual (somewhat edited) fragment of a call home from one of my kids a while ago: “The good news is that I spent 45 minutes talking to my professor in her office. That’s the longest I have ever been able to hold the attention of a faculty member, and I was proud of myself for going in there. The bad news is that I left with 600 pages of supplemental reading.”</p>
<p>The point is this: At Chicago, and everywhere else, your workload is what you make it. If you want to get more out of your courses, you do more work. Obviously, you can’t do infinite work on everything, and no one would want you to. So you set a balance, and make choices. But, in the end, the more you want to learn, the more you have to work.</p>