What was your college freshman year like? - Page 2

It's easy. I'm taking 5 classes and breezing through everything just fine. Less work than high school but more studying... Lectures are extremely boring. As for math, I'm doing this easy stats class where you're only required to know how to do basic math and piece it all together...

Speaking of easy classes, one of my science classes curved people's exams from an F to an A... I love school now.

ahh don't be so hard on yourself. I think the major difference here is that you are working 30+ hours a week whereas most of the other posters aren't. If you had that spare 30 hours i'm sure you could fit in a bit more sleep and HW time making things easier on you too.

Freshman year I had 4 classes once a week (Monday through Thursday 6-9) and worked 8 to 5 every day. Luckily though, I had an office job and so I could get away with doing my homework at work.

Hang in there

It was just about finding a new way to operate freshman year in college. The way I succeeded in high school was not effective for the college setting. It's all about adapting.

for the first 3 days it was hell on earth. After that, and after putting some styding, it was pretty easy until I graduated.

Freshman year was fun, I remember I loved it and looked forward to going everyday. I did good in all my classes but at the time I was not working.


Currently, I am so exhausted, this semester includes such a heavy load. I am not doing as good as I would like. Working the 40+ hours, 6 days a week, is kicking my ass and then Sun consists of confirmation class . I am just getting just as much sleep as you Dream2007 and same thing dropping out is not an option so I completely understand where you are coming from. Plus one of my psychology professors thinks her class is the only one I am taking, I have never had such a heavy workload for a class! Also, you would think anthropology would be easier but apparently not since I have to teacher who wants me to know everything there is to know about primates. I am tired and everyone keeps saying well this is a senior course I don't care. I just want to sleep. I am very irritable and angry because I am so sleep deprived and my eyes hurt. By far this is the semester from hell.

As for me high school was way easier. I didn't mind doing all the homework because I thought it was super easy and there was more leisure time and well we didn't have to work.

kind of hectic i guess at first, i signed up blindly as a chemistry major. I had never taken any sort of "real" chemistry before, what i took in high school was nonsense. So it was kind of a rude awakening, but i found out that i really loved the subject. I coasted by with 4.0 freshmen year taking 16hrs and working 10hrs.

I believe that universities are way easier than colleges though. For example my friend that goes to a university says he never has homework with the exemption of labs he has maybe once a month, unlike me, who has homework pretty much every night. I think it's due to the class size and whether or not the professor wants to grade that many assignments.

I barely made it out of higschool, I really didnt care much for it think I got out with like a C-, The first semester of my freshmen year I had classes from monday to saturday, absotulety horrible the worst part was when it snowed, I remember been able to ditch a whole day in highschool for an inch of snow or tad of rain. My first semester I was taking english 101, pshychology 101, Biochemistry, Human biology, and a computer class, I was so stressed out, everyone seemed to be having fun and I was studying my ass off, Those 2 sciences classes were a heavy load I seriously had dreams about the things I was studying, anyways I manage to get a 3.9 that semester so my studying payed off.

My second year was actually alot of fun, I still had heavy load of classes but I made friends in my major and we pretty much suffered together, Jesus I remember going to school everyday including sundays. During my whole entire college experience I think on average I slept maybe 4 hours a day, I remember feeling guilty for sleeping and not studying lol, I think everything was worth it, I just kept thinking that one day my sacrifices of having fun would pay off and everyone who thought school was unimportant at the time would prob be back in their 30s while I would be making alot of money and vacationing in the carribean- Now if only that could become true.

During my years at a Junior college I worked up 50hrs a week. However, the curriculum at a four year institution does not accommodate time to work; I devote my life to working during the summer and use that $$$ for tuition room and board as well as spending money during the school year.

I have an office job too and I love it because I can print as much as I want, I can make copies of stuff when I need to, and I can get school supplies from there, but as far as doing hw there, I could do it but sometimes I also need to have stuff done at work. Everyone keeps telling me to quit work and live of off scholarships, as if!