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>but the academic culture I came from normalized self brutalization to succeed What school did you go to? Went somewhere similar.
by murph-almighty 8y ago
>but the academic culture I came from normalized self brutalization to succeed
What school did you go to? Went somewhere similar.
- pc86 8y agoHonestly I've never heard of a college that respects these types of boundaries. By its very nature if you're taking 15+ credits of academically challenging coursework you're going to be working 60+ hours a week. My school recommended 3.5 hours of work outside of class for every 1.0 hour of lecture (roughly equivalent to credit hours with rare exception). For the minimum full-time load of 12.0 this equated to 54 hours a week (12 hours of class, 42 hours of outside). 18 credits was 81 hours a week all in, and this was expected. 100-level classes were typically less but my junior year particularly it was pretty much spot on.
- hueving 8y agoThat describes pretty much every PhD program in the US.
- weber111 8y agoAnd, frankly, many strong undergraduate programs, perhaps especially ones which are also very large (my school has 500 person class size even in your second-to-last and last years, so you need to go above and beyond to distinguish yourself enough to, say, get a professor to write you a recommendation)
- murph-almighty 8y agoI was also talking about an undergrad program, probably should have been more clear in my top comment.