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When I was an undergraduate student (1996-2001), I avoided the early classes like the plague. Ever seen frozen grease on a frying pan that was put out of the wi
by inglor_cz 4y ago
When I was an undergraduate student (1996-2001), I avoided the early classes like the plague. Ever seen frozen grease on a frying pan that was put out of the window on a freezing day? That is how my brain felt (and often still feels) in the morning.
The funny thing is, the reason why the university held early classes was "low capacity of amenities". E.g. not enough classrooms. Very understandable in early post-Communist Czechia where there was "low capacity" of everything.
But if American universities with their high tuition suffer from the same problem ... uh, is it caused by parasitic growth of bureaucracy that sucks all the money out of the actual educational part of the system? E.g. your tuition feeds thirty vice-probosts for Absolutely Necessary Stuff, but not enough teaching staff to have classes at a more reasonable hour?
BTW I am very sure that the vice-probosts for Yet Another Absolutely Essential Bullshit don't start their workday at dawn.
- chrisco255 4y agoUsually there are multiple time slots for various subjects. When I was at community college, before transferring to university, the 8AM slot was the only way I could fit in some classes, since I had to work M-F 9:30-5:30 (and then did night classes afterwards as well).
- cafard 4y agoWhen the boomers were going to college, tuition was proportionally a lot lower. But there were a lot of us, and they had to schedule our classes somehow. Honestly I'm not sure how many 8:00 classes I actually took, though my first two years I commuted and 9:00 felt like 8:00.