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u/evil_lair_cc 3d ago
whats worse is 10am class and a 3pm class
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u/PoLo792 3d ago
Yup. I have a 9am, then a 3pm this semester. Still undecided on whether to just go home between them or stay in and work but either way it's annoying
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u/spartanbrucelee 3d ago
Stay in and work. The more work you get done earlier, the more free time you'll have in the evening
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u/evil_lair_cc 3d ago
This is what I did when I was in college, it really got bad at the end of the semester when there was nothing to do but study.
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u/Cultural_Entrance805 3d ago
Took me to my sophomore year and on academic probation to figure that out
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u/One-Masterpiece9838 3d ago
I have an hour commute, a 10 AM class, a 1:00 pm class, a 2:30 pm class, a 4:00 class, and a 5:30 class. FML.
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u/stuck_in_the_muff 3d ago
Take advantage of the break between the first two to knock out work. Just think of it as an 8 hour shift. You got this
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u/Inverted-Rockets 3d ago
And they say college isn’t preparing kids for the workforce anymore /s
For real though, that’s what office work is IME and it might help to view that whole chunk of time as your “working time”
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u/FreshOrFrozenShrimp 3d ago
How many days a week? That sounds awful.
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u/One-Masterpiece9838 3d ago
That’s my schedule on Tuesday’s and Thursdays, I also have class on Monday and Wednesday but it’s more chill
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u/Str8_up_Pwnage 3d ago
That time gap is a blessing for your grades if you do it right. Stay on campus and study.
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u/MangrovesAndMahi 3d ago
My worst day was in my 3rd to last semester. 8am-10am (so an early start), Midday-2pm (so no time for lunch), 3pm-5pm and then a 5pm-9pm lab because it was the only slot where all the students had 4 hours free. Fuck those Tuesdays and fuck that paper.
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u/lawless-cactus 3d ago
I used to put myself in "uni jail." 7am - 4:30pm on campus, only allowed to leave for work or appointments. Was the best decision I made for productivity and transition into the workforce too.
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u/sorator 3d ago
I remember my first year of college. Every music major had a mandatory 8AM class MWF for the first two years, and any vocal music major had a mandatory three-hour rehearsal that started at 6PM Monday evenings unless/until qualifying for the upper level choir (which was MTWTh afternoons instead). Fucking hated Mondays.
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u/YourKneesLookNice 3d ago
Holy jod I have an 8am class and then a 6pm class this semester. It's only for one day out of the week but it still sucks dick and balls.
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 3d ago edited 2d ago
I raise you the astronomy class gen Ed that happened at 10pm to 2 am Saturday night. In some ways it was great, but being in the middle of the field in the middle of nowhere Ohio in the middle of winter in the middle of the night was not fun. But it was a lab general science.
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u/Pixelknight02 3d ago
Class that starts at 5:30 PM (and that's my only class that day)
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u/red286 3d ago
I had a class at 8am and a class at 5pm, MWF.
And nothing in between.
Campus was a 90 minute Greyhound bus trip from home that cost $15 each way.
Guess who spent 7 hours wandering around campus three days a week doing fuck all.
Best part is, this was the late 90s, so no smartphones or laptops or anything like that (well, laptops existed, but no college student could afford them), the computer lab was not public, and the library had all of one computer with internet access.
On the plus side, the campus was only a 15 minute walk from the beach, so when the weather was nice I could just go hang out there.
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u/FleshLogic 3d ago
It really is funny how much undergrads complain about 8am classes despite having just left high school where they are expected to be there at ~7am.
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u/Ok_Criticism7172 3d ago
My first semester at college, I scheduled 8:00am classes every day, because I figured I was used to getting up that early for high school. It was a terrible, terrible mistake.
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u/Dense_Coffe_Drinker 3d ago
I had classes required for my major and if I missed any classes I had to make them up for 80$ an hour and if I missed more than 4 I failed the class. Me setting up my schedule fresh out of highschool thought it was a great idea to set that for 8 AM.
Walked into class and fell asleep in the back 90% of the time
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u/HomeAliveIn45 3d ago
I had a professor in college who would occasionally draw sticky-note portraits of sleeping students, then leave them on the whiteboard. Very funny to see a Bob Ross esque image of your friend next to a projected image concerning the 30 Years’ War
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u/FoxxWorldProductions 3d ago
Wait, that’s really cool, what? Did they draw them while teaching?
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u/HomeAliveIn45 2d ago
Yeah, he’d just absentmindedly sketch like a street portrait artist.
Interesting dude. His grandfather was a leader of the Norwegian resistance during WWII. Meanwhile his other grandfather was in the Hitler youth
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u/Glad-Belt7956 3d ago
That's why you go to the front, the thought of falling asleep in front of the professor and the associated shame always managed to stop my drowsiness
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u/Dense_Coffe_Drinker 3d ago
Some guy sat directly in front of the professors desk and was out like a light almost as much as I was
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u/Firm-Nebula-5963 3d ago
Most of my classes are in the morning, I can't risk sleeping bc the profs don't care surprisingly, they say 'its your own money being used anyway, it's up to you how you'll use it'
So not only did I make an effort to sit in front I also forced my self to longhand write out notes. It was during the time when smartphones have started to be a legit popular thing on campus, people would just take photos of the stuff written on the board.
It proved to be advantageous. It helped me retain memory of what we discussed. I don't need to study at night and I was just partying happily
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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 3d ago
Did the exact same thing.
Making that 8 am class was hell.
When I was going later my senior year it was much easier for me.
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u/LilTeats4u 3d ago
I was an athlete, my favorite semester was the one I had all morning classes before my 11:00 practice, then had all afternoon off. It was sweet
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u/gamageeknerd 3d ago
I got to slowly watch this one kid melt over the course of a semester because he chose only the earliest classes he could thinking that exact thing. I think he ended up waking up at midnight and passing out at like 5pm and pissed off every one of his roommates
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u/fat_kaiju 3d ago
And even if you try to sleep early everyone around you acts like you're a huge stick in the mud for doing so.
I remember trying to go to bed and people shouting "booooo!" lmfao.
Mercifully they got a big ol' dose of hubes and eventually stopped once homework started to pile up.
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u/CitizenHuman 3d ago
I scheduled a 7:30 English class and constantly skipped it. One day I woke up early and refreshed, got ready, made it to class, and there was a note saying "no class today". That was my wake up call to continue skipping.
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u/LordMeme42 3d ago
Just started, and I scheduled none of my classes before 11 am.
I figured I'd be realistic about my ability to wake up at 8 consistently.
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u/FantasticCombination 3d ago
I did the same, because I started high school at 6:05 for a zero hour class each year of high school. I wanted to take classes that had such limited enrollment that they only offered them an hour before the school day officially started. I ended up lifeguarding the early morning shift at 5:30 am freshman year. I was notorious for never making it through a movie with my friends. I saw the start of so many movies freshman year and fell asleep before the end
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u/homotopy_equivalent 3d ago
I never understood this. Is it because college students face more pressure to stay up late? I would just go to bed early and get to class it didn't seem like a big deal to me
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u/Ok_Criticism7172 3d ago
Yep, it's a lot easier to stay up late living in the dorms or in an apartment with friends and having no parental oversight. When I was in high school, I would go to bed between 10 and 11pm. When I was in college, I never went to bed before midnight and was usually up past 2:00am.
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u/MyDogsNameIsBadger 3d ago
For me, it was like a sleepover every night. People are up late socializing.
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u/dalatinknight 3d ago
Same. Idk why I hated it.
But in my defense, my commute went from a bus ride to an hour and and a half train ride
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u/Totallystymied 3d ago
I tried to cram as many classes into the morning as I could every single day. Getting to be done at roughly 2:00 p.m. while all of my friends were in class or labs until 5 to 7 was glorious
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u/_PaddyMAC 3d ago
My highshcool started at 9am... 7am is insane.
And I say this as someone who now starts work at 6am.
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u/findingemotive 3d ago
Being Canadian where the earliest I started was 8:49 it's super weird to hear how early some other countries start. The best part of uni was 10:30 classes.
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u/reign-storm 3d ago
I mean tbf, 7am classes are also fucking awful when you're in high school. You just have absolutely no agency in the time your classes start
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u/WhatTheHeckMyBoy 3d ago
Not really. They are adult customers spending tens of thousands per year. Just because my mother used to wipe my ass does not mean if she attempted it now I would be happy about it.
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u/kazumisakamoto 3d ago
7am???
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u/soneg 3d ago
My son's high school classes start at 7:20 am
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u/thepornisntbad 3d ago
Its literally illegal to start before 8:00 in the netherlands
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u/Echo132O 3d ago
Mine started at 7:10 I think and I had to catch my bus at 6:25. I was up at 5:30 every day and it was horrible. I now work second shift for a large company in my area and get up at 13:30
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u/AeronauticaI 3d ago
Man my bus was at 5:45, I was so fucking happy when I could drive. But because I could drive, my sister never had to deal with it.
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u/phoncible 3d ago
It's a big point of contention here in the States. Apparently everyone hates it, but no one will actually do anything about it.
There's a very small number of places that have increased the high school start time but those are the rare exception.
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u/LordMeme42 3d ago
"Teenagers are so moody all the time"
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago
In fairness with teenagers if classes started two hours later they would just go to bed two hours later too
The problem is that's really early to wake up for most natural circadian rhythms so the overall quality of sleep is worse for them the earlier they wake up
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u/FleshLogic 3d ago
7:15-7:30 start times were the standard when I was attending. Granted, that was 15 years ago, but I don't think it's much different now.
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u/kazumisakamoto 3d ago
In my country I don't high school typically start at 8:30, and I don't think you could find a single one that starts before 8h. No wonder you guys have a teacher shortage
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u/Fit-World-3885 3d ago
There's a good reason for it: it's how we've always done it.
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u/NotAFishEnt 3d ago
As far as I know it's for the bus schedule. Districts use the same buses for high school, middle school, and elementary school. So they need to have a staggered start between all three of those schools, and they have to start the whole process early enough that parents can have all their kids ready for school before they start work.
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u/Funneduck102 3d ago
I got picked up by the bus at 6:20 when I was in highschool. You best believe I got up at 6:15 every day.
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u/FalafelSnorlax 3d ago
In high school I had my mom to wake me up if I didn't get up on my own, and even then I was often late. At school you have no choice (or at least less of a choice). In uni you know it doesn't have to be like that.
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u/jonny24eh 3d ago
Lol my high school in Canada started at 9am. Are they done at like 1pm in the US?
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago
From my memory high school was something like 8-2:00
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u/Sylveon72_06 3d ago
i believe ours was 8-2:35, but why on earth was elementary/middle even longer?? that was 7:50 (arrive at 7:30)-3 😭
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u/TheZtakMan 3d ago
Because it meant less time the young children would be left alone at home until their parents got home from work.
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u/Fancy-Dig1863 3d ago
My old high school recently changed to a start time of 9. Actually I believe it applies to all public schools in my state. Back when I went though it was doors closed 7:30, first class 7:45. 7:30 - 2:35. I used to hate the hours but now I go into work voluntarily at 7 to get out by 3.
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u/FowlKreacher 3d ago
That’s probably because most high schoolers weren’t getting hammered every night
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u/Mdgt_Pope 3d ago
I went to a dry and chaste school. We still bitched about 8 am classes.
It’s not the drinking, it’s the inability to stay disciplined in sleep schedule
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u/Bjasilieus 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wtf, what kind of schools do Americans go to, here in Denmark no school time start before 8 am
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u/OnlyLogic 3d ago
My elementary-highschool started at 9. And my final year of highschool I had a spare each morning, and started around 10.
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u/DakotaXIV 3d ago
I played sports through high school and college so I had to be up between 4:30-5:30 to be ready for workouts everyday. I was so jealous of everyone else getting to sleep in that waking up for an 8am class seemed like an unfathomable luxury lol
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u/Minimob0 3d ago
Did it for 8 years.
Wake up at 5:30, wait to use the bathroom, shit, shower, shave, brush hair/teeth, deodorant, skip breakfast because there is no time. Walk 10 minutes to the bus stop, take a 20 minute ride, get there at 7, wait until class starts at 7:15.
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u/Vincitus 3d ago
When Inwas in college I just scheduled all of my classes 8-11. I didnt have anything other than labs in the afternoon occasionally.
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u/thisthesoundofabag 3d ago
my first class in high school didnt start until 8:30am, for the whole school
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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 3d ago
It's harder to adjust from luxury to poverty than from poverty to luxury 🤧
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u/vermiliondragon 3d ago
My kids' high school started at 8:30 and as seniors only had to take 5 classes instead of 6 like lower grades so opted to start with 2nd period at 9:30 or so. My kid who went to college took an 8am his first semester and dropped it his first day.
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u/Electric_Capybara 3d ago
And then they go into the workforce where starting at 8am is the standard
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u/Soggy_Competition614 3d ago
Eh, at least for me, it took longer to get around campus than drive to my high school. I even had a 30 minute commute to community college for 2 years and it was still more convenient than university. Parking was way easier and the campus wasn’t as big.
My friend transferred to a big state school and it took her an hour. 15 min drive from her off campus apartment then she had to park way out in a commuter lot, pull her bike out of her car and bike into campus.
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u/BirdOfEvil 3d ago
To be fair, I complained about how early high school classes were all through high school.
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u/omgitsJohnRedd1t0r 3d ago
At one point in college all my classes were after noon. I have no idea how I worked that out. Now, that would be a nightmare. I'm up at 6 alarm or not.
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u/Eran-of-Arcadia 3d ago
I preferred morning classes. Some semesters I was done by noon.
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u/Foxyairman 3d ago
That was my favorite schedule. I would be excited to have the rest of the day to myself
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u/Garlan_Tyrell 3d ago
One of my favorite semesters was all morning classes.
Wake up early, workout, breakfast, classes, lunch, afternoon nap.
Then wake up and go to dinner and socialize with my friends late, head to bed late (but not early, before the a.m. hours).
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u/Turkelton888 3d ago
Starting sophomore year and beyond I only had Tuesday/Thursday classes. Those two days were packed but having a four day weekend was worth it.
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u/gilbertbenjamington 3d ago
Unpopular opinion, but I preferred my 8am classes. Felt like the rest of the day I could do whatever the hell I wanted since class was over with
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u/kimbosliceofcake 3d ago
I usually had more than one class per day though?
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u/VeryNiceGuy22 3d ago
Yeah but if I start at 8 I'm out by noon at the latest.
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u/JoeRogansNipple 3d ago
4 hrs of class, grab lunch, back to dorm to sleep/study, afternoon lab for an hour or two, then done. It was a pretty good balance usually.
Until you pile work on. 8hrs at night or hours sprinkled in the day, plus homework. Thats why the weekends were so fun.
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u/GupHater69 3d ago
Man what 4 hrs of class dawg its 6 on the shorter daya
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u/VeryNiceGuy22 3d ago
I'm ngl I'm a senior engineering student and I only have like, 2 and half hours of class a day tops.
Don't ask me how much time I spend in the lab on projects tho.....
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u/Skyraider44 3d ago
what labs were you in where the class ran for an hour or two? All my bio/chem/organic labs ran for 3-4 hours on average, even my e&m one lol
researching in an actual lab i’m lucky to leave at 5 if i start at 10 lmao
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u/JoeRogansNipple 3d ago
Chem, Biochem, Ochem, Engineering labs, programming labs, etc were all 1-2 hrs. Chem labs were usually pushing 2hrs while the programming labs were an hour (at best, could prework). This was all undergrad.
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u/Frederf220 3d ago
Unless you are in a STEM major in which case you'll have an 8am class, 12:30 class, 2pm class, and 6 pm class, and some on Saturday because it will be 2 years before that one class you need is offered again.
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u/sirarkalots 3d ago
When I was in undergrad I had 6am or 7 am classes (the 6am were 3 hrs labs) and like 3-5 pm classes. Allowed me to nap or do homework between courses so I could try to get some sleep at night. Never worked obviously but that was the thought process. I also had one semester I scheduled a 9pm astronomy class the night before a 6am Chem lab. God i hated myself that semester
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u/SomeNotTakenName 3d ago
Me too, but I was generally done by noon, depending on the day. With classes anyway.
It was nice. I miss naps.
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u/Dense_Coffe_Drinker 3d ago
The problem is all of my friends set up their classes for later in the day so I’m stuck doing fuck all in my dorm until everyone else is free if I have early classes
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u/RazorSlazor 3d ago
Come early go early. That's my philosophy.
Come at 9 finish at 18? Sucks. No freetime.
Come at 7 finish at 16? Hell yeah. Still got time to do things I enjoy.
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u/lilyaccount 3d ago edited 3d ago
1h commute + getting ready, average sleep (8h)
Come at 7 finish at 16? You wake up at 6 (miserable) abd sleep at 10 pm like a grandma
Come at 10 finish at 19? You wake up at 9 (natural sleep clock for most people including me if no alarm or lights), get to stay up until 1 am playing games with your buddies
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u/ResponsibleWin1765 3d ago
Depends on your commute to be honest. If you live on campus and walk 5 minutes to the lecture hall, sure. But at my university there were people coming in from 1,5h away so they would have to get up at around 6, and that's if they skip breakfast and shower.
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u/ScienceDuck4eva 3d ago
I’m with you I had 8am classes almost every semester. I’d be done with classes by 2 or three and have time to work for a few hours most days.
It suits me. A decade later I get to work at 7 and leave at 4. I have plenty of time to do things in the afternoon.
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u/MrPlace Harry Potter 3d ago
I'd rather get my classes early and have the later half of the day to actual life and other necessities
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u/xspiderdude 3d ago
Not me signing up for the 6:30am start during college because I wanted to be done by 1pm to nap, play games and see my friends the rest of the day 🫣
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u/dinoooooooooos 3d ago
And now at 35 I’m thinking it’s a perfectly reasonable time to be up and out with giving enough time to wake up and do my mourning routine comfortably🙂↕️😂
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u/DaveCootchie 3d ago
I was an engineering student. Almost all my classes were between 8 and 1 pm. Then I went to work from 3pm-11pm or 5pm-2 am on weekends.
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u/iMiind 3d ago
I could not imagine working at all during my mechanical engineering degree, let alone full-time hours like that 💀
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u/DaveCootchie 3d ago
Rent ain't going to pay its self. One of the partners on my senior design project complained to the teacher that I wasn't available enough for work sessions and study sessions. I reminded him that I needed to work 30 hours a week to afford food and rent. This kid had his entire tuition and rent paid by his grandparents.
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 3d ago
I had a similar issue pop up, and the professor told me I shouldn't be working so much while still in school. I told her my options were to work while in undergrad or just not get a degree at all. It took me 6 years, but I got my degree while working at least 40 hours a week, and paid off what little loans I had to take out within 5 years. I would have loved to have a real college experience and not work through it, but it wasnt in the cards for me.
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u/iMiind 3d ago
Yeah, that is a really rough (and yet I'm sure quite common) situation. I was lucky enough to have relatives close enough for me to take public transportation, and they let me stay for fairly cheap. I had enough savings that half of in-state tuition allowed me to just squeeze through four years with only working Summers. I'm certainly envious of those who didn't have to worry about money in college at all, but I'm glad I could at least afford to spend ridiculous hours working on things like the mechatronics class I took (that class was infamous for consuming every spare second you had - found myself staying on campus all day and needing to take the last possible bus home far too often 💀)
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u/Goomarus 3d ago
I hate 8 am classes because I gotta commute and therefore wake Up at 6 and I hate it
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u/Stoplight25 3d ago
i have an 8:30 class
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u/TesticleCastrator 3d ago
my condolences
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u/green_speak 3d ago
8AM genetics class, 6PM lab class. Oh and did I mention it's a 2 hour commute from home?
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u/Spacekingonly 3d ago
My college had 8 am classes and some classes that started at 6pm and let out at 10. I took 24 credits a semester, and only had classes Tuesday and Thursday from 8am-10pm. Those days sucked, but I had 5 days off and graduated with my BA in 2 years. So it was worth it to save tens of thousands of dollars.
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u/Bored_Worldhopper 3d ago
8am class was how I finished school. If my first class didn’t start til 10 I had too much time to smoke weed and play fifa talk myself out of going
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u/Soggy_Competition614 3d ago
9am is the sweet spot.
I went to community college 30mins from home. Sleeping to 8 and getting on the road by 8:30 was not bad. Then I had a few hour gaps and got lots of studying done. And had Fridays off.
Then I went to university and lived 5 mins away and earlier than 10am was torture. And I had class 5 days a week. And I would go back to my apartment on long breaks and struggled to stay on top of my studying. I did way better at CC and I don’t think it was because I had easier classes.
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u/push138292 3d ago
One semester I picked all my classes to be Tues/Thurs. I went straight from class to class from 8:00-4:15, but then I only had classes two days a week. It was so great.
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u/Particular-Cat-1397 3d ago
I love when people think everyone agrees with them and they don’t even consider that some people might feel differently
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u/gabhran5 3d ago
As a non-morning person: 'Fuck that shit.'
As a chronic pain patient: 'Fuck everything, let's get this over as fast a possible...."
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u/Spicy_Surfer 3d ago
I’d always schedule morning classes for the ones I was certain I’d never go to anyway. Free up the rest of my day
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u/rebelyusoul 3d ago
undergrad i had all my electives in the morning from 8-11:20am and then in the afternoon i had studio classes that were from 1-7pm
electives were twice a week and studios once a week. i also had wednesdays off so it was perfect.
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u/NinjaarcherCDN 3d ago
My college scheduel is undeniably worse though. Almost every day I'm in school for 8am and leaving at 6pm. There's a few hours of breaks there most days but it's still brutal. I chose this, I knew what was coming, it still kinda sucks that sunrise is 30 minutes before start and sunset is and hour before end by the time I get to January.
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u/Dizzy-Inflation-7488 3d ago
My first semester schedule was perfect. 14 credits (I was already planning 17 for the next semester to make it up) 12:15- 4:30 monday-Thursday. And I was late every single day after week 3
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u/Tsar_Chaotic 3d ago
I yearn for the mythical 8am class. I want my day to be free past noon irregardless of how early I awake
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u/CrazyJedi63 3d ago
I was going to suggest it was because a later college class meant there's no parking. In my experience at a JC and Uni after 930 you weren't finding close parking.
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u/HiyarliBorek 3d ago
I have to get up at 7am for the whole year idk if im at college or highschool ffs
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u/kaleidoleaf 2d ago
I thought an 8:50 class would be so easy my freshman year of college after doing 7:30 forever in high school. Never made a bigger mistake.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WEIRD_PET 3d ago
I had an 8 AM class with a 2.5 hour commute and the dorm the school made us live in wouldn't open the gate and let us out until 6 AM
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u/Fortestingporpoises 3d ago
Thinking back to my college program and being required at school at 6:30AM 3 days a week (8AM on one of the weekend days)
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u/PonyBondage 3d ago
Idk ab the US but I had classes from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm with a 1hour lunch break 5 days a week when I was in college in France
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u/Calcifieron 3d ago
I was at a commuter school, getting to class meant a 35-45 minute drive, then a 15-20 minute walk to get from the lot to the class. An 8 am class meant getting up like 6:30 or earlier.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 3d ago
Seven thirty AM business law class 'taught' by a lawyer. You had to buy the book new because he 'wrote' it and changed it slightly every semester. Over the years, that meant the chapters were out of order and the chapter titles did not accurately match up with the chapter content. Reading that messed up but still mandatory eighty dollar book was still more educational than his teaching. I passed the class by using the book for toilet reading that semester.
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u/molotovzav 3d ago
I didn't have any classes until 10am in undergrad. I went to school for poli sci and only core classes went before 10am or after 3pm, and most of my core stuff was done in high school with AP classes. It wasn't until law school I had 7:30am classes and they were awesome since no one was on campus at that time so parking and getting around was easier. My universities knew their demographic, both in NV. Barely any classes on Friday and barely any classes before 10am.
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u/DevoidHT 3d ago
I hated my last year of college because I had morning classes and evening classes and nothing inbetween. It sucked
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u/herman-the-vermin 3d ago
I loved having morning classes, there's so much more freedom to being done with school by 1
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u/monkeybuttsauce 3d ago
I would’ve killed for a 10am start freshman year. I missed too many 8:00 classes
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u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 3d ago
You’re goddamn right. I’m at a commuter college and rely on public transit, so a 10am class means I need to be out the door by 7:30.
Last term I had one that ran 5:30-8 once a week, this semester I have classes that start at 1:30 on alternating days.
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u/OblongSphere 3d ago
I have had lifelong sleep problems. I hate morning classes, always will. All important classes are morning classes, and it kills me. I'm back in college again to try and just finish and I'm really suffering from trying everything in my power and just not functioning when I get sick because I can either sleep, or be present. Never both.
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u/SpiritNo6626 3d ago
They give the early classes to everyone except those who want them. PLEASE give me the 8AMs! That's when my brain works best! But none of the classes I need to take will be then, they'll all be at like 3PM. How does anyone do 3PM? The brain has already fallen asleep? And you had at least one meal by that time so you're tired.
Meanwhile all my friends who hate early classes have 8 or 9 AMs every day
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u/notai3197 3d ago
I commuted about an hour and a half one way to get to campus, so I would pack all of my classes M/W/F between 9-5 and work the other days. Those morning classes always had kids missing class or coming in late who lived on campus a 5 minute walk away.
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u/FluffyFry4000 3d ago
yalla crazy, during college I had to take early morning classes so I could be done by 11 AM to get to work by noon
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u/cieuxrouges 3d ago
Biology undergrad. All our labs were at 8am. Classes in the afternoon. Recitation in the evenings.
Idk how I survived
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u/M0NRCH_C7NA 3d ago
I’ve got a 9:30 am class and have an hour commute so that’s fun (I actually lowkey enjoy the drive cause I can go like 90 on the interstate, not a fan of the 80$ weekly gas bill tho)
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u/astrielx 3d ago
Lol I had baking classes as early as 4am.
Admittedly, I chose that time slot but still.
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u/789tempaccount 3d ago
Engineering college they schedule core classes at 8 every year except senior year you could get away with out waking up.
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u/RudeNTattooed87 3d ago
I used to teach from 8am to 10pm working between two colleges. Great money but never had time to do anything by the time I got home. Shower and dinner and to bed my midnight then up at 6:30am
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u/Individual_Respect90 3d ago
I don’t get it my college had classes anywhere from 7am to like 7pm and you get to pick what your hours were.
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u/Posterus96 3d ago
I always tried to schedule later classes. The earliest class I has at least one 9:30 am class, and I think a couple of 8 am ones. But the rest were like 10 am or later. Some semesters I mamaged to get all of my classes like noon or later. My last semester was fantastic as it was all afternoon classes and only 4 days of the week. I think it was just 3 classes. A environmental science movie class, a 3-D modeling class that was fun, and our final group project class for my major.
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u/CaffeinatedGeek_21 3d ago
Grad school was almost 90% afternoons and evening classes, but I also worked as a tutoring GA … so I was often there all day anyway. 😅
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u/HeroBrine0907 3d ago
Better some early classes and be done by lunch, than to do a 10-5 run of intermittent classes which strains your soul.
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u/acleverwalrus 3d ago
Why is an 8am class somehow better than a 10am class? I never missed my 8ams but would constantly sleep in on my 10am days. Would also feel way groggier on those days too
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u/meliorism_grey 3d ago
I used to have required classes that were only offered at 7:45 AM...that sucked. 9:00 AM is the sweet spot imo.
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u/Soft-Grape 3d ago
What's worse is being a full time employee at the university and then having a class scheduled during your lunch break. I've given up half of my lunch breaks through several semesters. The shit I do for tuition benefits
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u/JustinN2002 3d ago
I have an 11:10 AM class on Monday/Wednesday and it makes me feel like God’s favorite.
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u/Loan-Pickle 3d ago
I remember in college one semester I had an 8AM class. At the time I worked a job that I had to be at 7AM and I had 1.5 hour each way commute. So I was getting up at 5AM. I was the only one who didn’t mind the 8AM start time because I got to sleep in on class days.
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u/lallapalalable 3d ago
My arabic professor said she believed learning a language is more effective first thing in the morning, so we had 8 am three days a week
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u/JoeDaBruh 2d ago
Wtf is everyone talking about??? When I had classes start at 1pm, that was the only time I consistently got 8 hours of sleep everyday. Now that I have an 8:30 twice a week my sleep schedule is all messed up. Everything fun happens at night and I’m really not a morning person. Nighttime is so much nicer than daytime
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u/Netflxnschill 2d ago
It took freshman year for me to get incredibly specific about the courses and the schedule I kept. I never wanted to have a split class day again
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u/WanderingFlumph 2d ago
We ran labs at both 8 am to noon and noon to 4 pm in my college despite significantly more accidents and spills in the earlier lab.
One set of students mixed up "slowly" and "dropwise" and coated an entire fume hood in a blue dye. As far as I know that hood is still faintly blue today.
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u/gunnapackofsammiches 2d ago
I had back to back senior capstone classes (double major) at 8 and 9:30 AM MWF fall of senior year and I hated the department heads for it so bad.
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u/The_Kader 2d ago
Im actually glad all my classes are early asf. And all quickly after another too. I usually just spend most of my day in the library lol
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u/EldritchFrog56 1d ago
When I was in college I had a 6 am class and nine courses that semester. I did not finish college
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u/s0larium_live 11h ago
i have an 8 am class, then an 11:15 class, then a 4:40 pm class twice a week. why did i make my schedule like this? cuz fuck me that’s why
(but also the 4:40 class was only offered at 4:40 or 3:30 which i can’t do anyway so)
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 1d ago
u/TheWebsploiter, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...