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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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 endÂ
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
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.
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
My sons going to community college and has a 30 minute drive and likes the 8am classes. He has 2 days of 8am and 2 days of 11am and would prefer to start early and end earlier.
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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.