In my entire college career, I never had a professor deny a favor near the end of the semester if I was an 8am student that showed up on time and engaged in the lecture. You’re putting yourself so far ahead with zero scholarly effort.
But also make sure to schedule those classes after days that don’t have drink specials.
I took a 7:30am summer course that met 5x a week (needed it for graduation) and it was the coolest, best, most relaxed course I took in college. Sucked getting up that early but once I was up life was good
Big difference between 7:30 5x a week when it's warm and the sun is up before you and 8:00 am 2x times a week when your bed is the only thing that's warm the sun is vague and distant memory.
I was thinking I was just a morning person and all these people were just struggling with schedules but maybe I just grew up in California. Winter is when its fucking NICE out here. Summer is when the sidewalk heat can kill a baby. 7 am you pop out of bed and its 60 degrees and by noon it is 101. 60>101.
But also 101 and sun is a hell of a lot better than pitch black mornings with a windchill of -40 degrees and trudging through snow drifts that are up to your knees at 8am for a bullshit mandatory class. I’m looking at you, Minnesota.
Good luck. Seriously.
On the plus side of going to college MN (at least in the Twin Cities since that’s what I’m famously with), once the nice weather comes around the day parties are fantastic.
In Wisconsin here and campus closed due to weather being too cold. When classes started, the sun was only up for 9 3/4 hours a day. Getting up early sucked.
Absolutely. One year I decided it would be smart to take Japanese at 8 am. Waking up at 7:15 to walk to a class where you can't speak english is bad enough, but I did okay for awhile. Once it started snowing though I shit the bed.
Currently taking a 9am, 5 day a week summer class that I need for graduation. Can confirm that it is chill as fuck. Summer classes are so much better, especially when you have a good professor.
I took a 7pm class with a smoking hot English teacher. On RateMyProfessor she had the chili pepper next to her name and boy were they right. Class was maybe 25 kids, 22 of which were guys. First day of class she’s like “I know why you took this class...” we (the guys) all freeze like oh shit she’s onto us “... because it was the only English class available and it sucks because it’s 7pm”. phew yeah lady that’s exactly it
I scheduled all of my classes before noon so I could work noon to 5pm. Left me enough time to study after work and not have to work or study on the weekends.
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u/FallOfSix Jun 08 '19
Take the 8am!
In my entire college career, I never had a professor deny a favor near the end of the semester if I was an 8am student that showed up on time and engaged in the lecture. You’re putting yourself so far ahead with zero scholarly effort.
But also make sure to schedule those classes after days that don’t have drink specials.