I spent most of yesterday typing. This is not generally a problem, I'm a writer after all and type most of my drafts. I generally enjoy writing, but that's not what I was doing yesterday - I was typing.
I was typing one paper after another for school. Because you see college professors don't seem to understand that their students might have other classes to attend. Nor do they comprehend the fact that since school is so expensive, students frequently have jobs - many of us have full time jobs. And it is not even a part of their world that students might want to have a social life, or do such mondane tasks as cooking, cleaning or sleeping. All they seem to know is that you are in class for 2 or 4 hours a week and that there are 168 hours in a week. That means (according to professors) that students have between 164 and 166 hours per week to do homework.
Now, I'm taking 3 classes. One meets 4 hours each week and the other 2 meet 2 hours each so let's do the math. The teacher for the 4 hour class thinks that I have 164 hours to do homework, and each of the other teachers think that I have 166 hours to do homework (each) that adds up to 496 hours of homework each week.
Fortunately, my teachers are smart enough to be aware, that anything they assign to be turned in, they are going to have to read, so none of the actually use up all the time they think I have for doing homework. As it is, I generally manage to work faster than they expect which leaves me with a luxurious 5 hours of sleep per night.
We are just over halfway through the semester - I'm looking ahead to the holidays, and all the business that brings, and wondering how I'm going to make it through. I'm guessing that just about every other student out there is doing the same thing.
What really amazes me though is that I've been through this before - many many many times. And yet I still can't remember how I manage to get through the coming season with my sanity in tact.
Posted by Becca at November 3, 2003 06:11 AM