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TraditionalSet8

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I was sitting in my class this morning listening to my professor tell us no one in my class got higher than a C on the test. I was fine until he said we should spend 15 hours a week on homework outside of his class. 3 hours a day excluding weekends. Is he insane I have 4 classes if I spent 15 hours for each class with my other activities like work, sleep, eating... I would have 4 hours a week including my weekends for free time. How am I supposed to build friendships when maybe I just wanted to sleep in on the weekend. How do I have time to get my car worked on How am I supposed to function when all I have is about 30 minuets a day for self care and relaxation. Why do teachers have such unrealistic expectations for their students.

Posted Apr 6, 2022, 2:23 PM UTC

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AppleJelly2•

Email the head of the department. If no one in the class got above a C, that’s a teaching failure, not a studying failure

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TraditionalSet8OP•

I will say that half the class is never there. The first time I had seen them was on test day. So I am not supprised they failed

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SnooSuggestions6309•

Maybe he should teach better in the class? Idk how studying more outside the classroom will help

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TraditionalSet8OP•

He said that he will mention things repeatedly in class but that because we are not practicing problems outside of class we forget them.

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notbmarshall•

That’s an interesting contrast to my girlfriend’s teenage boys who spend 0 hours per week on homework. And they have good grades! They’re not geniuses. Apparently they get all their work done during gaps/wasted time during the school day. It’s mostly an indictment of the schools.

I never ask them questions about basic subjects like history, math, science, or language because I’m afraid my suspicions that they know nothing would be confirmed.

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TraditionalSet8OP•

That is how it was for me in high school some of it was cheating some of it was that I was naturally pretty good at it. But I am in college now and I am majoring in a very hard subject I knew that coming in but I feel like if the professors were more understanding of our time it would be better. The specific professor I am talking about is a math professor and every class day(3 days a week) we get a homework assignment of about 20 calculus questions that is just outrageous to expect me to do 60 difficult time-consuming questions as well as the homework from my engineering class where right now we are programming a robot and building a pump, and my comm class group presentation, and my chemistry class. They just don't understand we have lives outside of school. They also assume that when we go on a break we go home and do nothing which is not true I work every school break and on the weekends.

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Ok-Macaroon-8153•

Wish I could give you a good answer.

Honestly to me it seems like half the teachers like that are just power tripping. It's not a healthy lifestyle at all, and if they're professors, that should be pretty apparent. But sadly most of them just preach "that's not my problem".

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TraditionalSet8OP•

I keep telling myself that maybe it is me and that I am just not good enough and I can't handle the workload of college but then I did the math of what most of my professors expect of me and I realized just how unrealistic that is.

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TraditionalSet8OP•

I am majoring in mechanical engineering and I think my biggest problem is I have a lot of engineering homework programming my robot and building a pump, 60 calculus questions a week, a group presentation for my comm class, and then just normal things for my chemistry class. So basically I have 3 classes that require a lot of homework and then I work weekends and school breaks so that I can pay for school. It is just a lot of stress.

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TraditionalSet8OP•

My school is on the quarter system which means we are willingly choosing to torture ourselves with finals 3 times a year but luckily I only have to deal with this schedule for 10 weeks and I am halfway through the quarter. My school has a set curriculum for engineering. I don't know how it is at other schools, they chose my math, engineering, and science, which I have to take for the quarter, and then I can choose 1 elective/general ed requirement. I had to take comm this quarter because I had to take it before the end of the school year. Hopefully next year my general ed req won't be so time-consuming. I am also trying to minor in accounting so that isn't helping anything.

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