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Hah yea I quickly discovered that matnat[1] study points weren't like other study points. Felt like we had to do 2-5x the work compared to the students I knew g
by magicalhippo 2y ago
Hah yea I quickly discovered that matnat[1] study points weren't like other study points. Felt like we had to do 2-5x the work compared to the students I knew going to other faculties. But in general the courses were very rewarding I feel.
I heard about the OS one, sounded super cool and also a lot of work from what I gathered. Heard about it too late and required a buddy. Oh well, can't have it all.
[1]: faculty of math and natural sciences
- gravescale 2y agoSounds like the UK too. All my school friend doing non-STEM courses would ask me how many "contact hours" we had per week. I can't remember exactly how many, but once you included lectures, scheduled labs and tutorials, was not that far from 9-5 (minus the standard university-wide Wednesday afternoon sport slot). The friends would go quiet and say "oh, we have 12". And that didn't even incude the "non-contact" hours in the labs grinding the coursework until security shooed us out late at night so they could lock the building. Good times (in retrospect, especially).
- schnitzelstoat 2y agoYeah, I did Physics in the UK and it was the same. Plus in one term there was some miscommunication between the professors and they set us one experiment every week instead of every two weeks, I remember literally working like 12 hour days on the weekends to get all the data analysis and reports done.
- matsemann 2y agoWe at NTNU used to complain/joke about how you at UiO even got 10 points for your classes, when we had a flat 7,5 sp for each class in Trondheim... I say used to, but still do. Even 10 years later me and my girlfriend (that studied at UiO) still tease each other about who is the smartest or had the hardest courses, or she mocks my ring, heh.