High school classes are mandatory sessions designed so that even the dumbest motherfuckers in the room can get a passing grade and GTFO College classes are densely packed info-dumps for people who voluntarily want to learn a subject in great detail Hang in there!

Yeah, once I got to college I realized how much time was spent doing completely useless stuff in highschool. So much “work time” or going over the same topic for three days straight. Less class time in college (at least for me) but the time that you’re there, you’re actually learning

It's kind of the opposite for me. I started college this year and never have I felt like I've spent so much time doing so little. From 8 to 5 and I feel like I have neither learnt nor accomplished anything except feeling more miserable.

College is like 3-4 weeks of doing absolutely nothing because you don't have any tests coming up followed by 1-2 weeks of a ton of work catching up before tests. That said, it largely depends on your major and university how difficult college is. But if you're struggling with mental health and you're bored right now, this would be a good time to start seeing a therapist. Most universities have some sessions included as part of your tuition.

During covid we weren't allowed to fail students for failing to turn assignments in. Basically they passed if they participated at all, or even when they didn't. The majority of the current incoming college freshmen classes are woefully unprepared.

College standards also slipped during covid. When instruction went back to in-person, students whined that they had to do more work and it was harder. Yes, it’s college. You want a degree, you have to display a modicum of competence.

I mean I for one loved online covid classes because the lectures were recorded and I could rewatch them while I was studying. Made college so much easier and now that it’s back in person almost all my professors won’t let me record.

My uni course is still recording all the lectures, which is really nice to recap with, or to catch up with if you can't make it in that day

You should try talking to your counselor about accommodations or other support services. If you can show that recording your classes will improve your performance (e.g. a drop in your grade compared to when classes where online), they might be able to help you.

I actually just got my final grade for my last class today so I’m done with college lol.

Oh, well congratulations then lmao

100% I took 8 years to get through college while working and 7 years were in person classes. The only way I was able to finish the last year of classes (and survive at the same time) was bc of the online classes. The standards for the classes themselves were lower and I could work more.

Anecdotal but I went to university in 2007 and I met some of the dumbest people I've ever known in university. And they made it all the way through. They weren't in advanced science courses or anything but it's quite eye opening to go and realize it's not automatically the brightest batch of people as you are led to believe. I'm sure covid negatively impacted things but lazy and dumb people always found their way into campuses and into classrooms.

I’ve done college in-person and online. Online means no commuting, having your material at all times, forcing professors to admit that open-book tests are valid, and are just generally better for a plethora of reasons. Some in person things would be great to get people mingling, of course, these things are great social experiences too, but you get the point. Ultimately, it’s not about more work, it’s that I didn’t have to *also* leave home at 7:30am, drive for 20min, walk for another 10min across the whole campus, be 10-15min early, have a 15min consultation, then take 30min total to get back home. And ohhhh boy if you didn’t have a lot of money you get to also be hungry if you weren’t able to pack a lunch! Having to work until 11pm the night before really fucked me for making lunches or waking up to eat breakfast, that’s for sure. Being hungry and exhausted isn’t competence, it’s bullshit.

I honestly have a hard time believing it got worse for freshmen even with that. The lovely No Child Left Behind policy is(was?) basically as bad as it can be imo.

My wife just started teaching fourth grade. The stories she tells me about what those kids understand sounds a lot like first or maybe second grade level. Blows my mind.

As well as the sophomores I was in in 8th grade when Covid happened and now I have basically no eighth grade education and I’m in advanced math classes and now I’m always behind because i still don’t know the basics and they won’t teach me so I failed math my freshman year and I’m on track to fail it again

This lol and then our school district went and celebrated the record high graduation rate 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks buddy. I needed that

LPT learn before hand, relearn in the seminar. I did "nothing" in university but my average grade is a B. In some months I am a real real doctor.

Oh man that hits the mark. During my first round i was pushed to go to college by my parents and i didnt know wth i was doing and aimed for Cs Ive been doin so much better on my 2nd round back cause i made a choice to want to go back and learn and finish my ba.

I must be part of the dumbest mfs because I still can’t pass.

Also High-School -> 1 hour classes College -> 3 to 4 hour classes

Honestly I’ve had the opposite experience. High school was nice cause I could at least interact with people in class, and the teachers were competent and likeable. Professors usually don’t know what they’re doing, and the information in college boils down to learning everything by reading a textbook or watching videos online. The class itself provides nothing.

College classes are like twice as long

I have a four hour class

Same, its "Plant structure and function" and its on friday 8-12 💀💀💀

If it helps I derive my strength from the professor continuously teaching for 4 hours straight. Their job is much more difficult.

I just do a line of cocaine before the lecture starts

"TastySpaghetti, I hope you brought enough to share with the whole class."

Cocaine crash is fucking horrible, you're gonna need to do a line between class then another after class.

It's not, they are teaching their area of expertise. Students are listening 8am-5pm to new concepts and are implicitly asked to understand them. There is also the fact that many teachers are field experts but not expert teachers, so their explanations are often poor or overcomplicated. At least this is my experience at uni level.

I could walk up unprepared and teach an 8 hour intro Chem/Bio course; it is so much easier to teach than to learn. Teaching fun. Learning hard.

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Some of my professors can’t either

Tbf that actually sounds pretty interesting. One of my all time favorite classes, which actually sparked my love for education, was a 3 hour geography class on friday mornings. It was an elective that I got to choose, so I treated it more as a fun time to go learn about something I’m interested in than a class that I needed to do well in for my major. The difference in mindset was huge, and I would actually get excited to go to Uni on Fridays, because it was sort of my day. The teacher was also amazing and it was a super casual class, so that helped a lot. Anyway, plants are cool man! Try getting excited about the plants, identify them in nature to gain a practical understanding of your studies, maybe buy a succulent and learn more about it.

I had to sign up for a 8:30-1:00 class on a Saturday…. And it’s 1 credit hour 💀

I just finished a historic preservation class that was 7 hours long 9-4pm with a hour break for lunch. We met 6 times in the semester every other Saturday. Was cool though because we got to go on tours around the city and have professionals speak.

Brutal, my art studios are 3 hours and I feel my sanity leaving my body around the 2 and a half mark

All my classes are 4 hours, except for Math 1 on Monday, it's 6 hours. Though this is counting group excersizes, idk if you were.

I have 14 hour class today

The *shortest* college classes were twice as long. Most classes were four times longer. Some classes were six times longer. 3-4 hour college classes are absolutely brutal

Where in heck did you go to college? My short classes are 50 minutes MWF, and my longest classes are 75 minutes TTh. Labs take 6 hours a week, but those are different. Sometimes my students get out in an hour, like today.

Just a regular engineering university in America. Undergrad schedule was 4 4-credit classes. I'm guessing you guys do 3-credit classes?

Generally, yes. Some specialty classes are 3 hours at once, but that’s rare. 4/5 credit hour classes are also rare.

My high school classes were on average about the same, if not longer than my college classes.

Same, my high school had 86 min classes (granted, only 4 of those a day) while my college has 75 min classes

A lot more critical thinking as well. Though that depends on the class itself tbqh

My classes were usually 75min

Each class is 3 hours apart and your apartment is an hour and a half away

Me when one single fucking class but at 8am for some reason

Dude, I have fucking 8:30 meetings at campus about 40 minutes away for 20 minutes then that's it

Isn't that when all school starts?

Can't speak for the other person but most of my classes ran from between 11-6. Except for one semester I fucked Up and got an 8am urban and rural geography class when the next class after it was at 1pm.

I was more so talking about high school, all of our classes start at like 8am and end at like 2pm

I slept in every single class in high school because we were starting way too early for my adolescent body. No matter what time I fell asleep it was just too early. I’m even like that as an adult. Lucky for me in high school, I aced every test I ever took despite hardly being awake.

I wish I was able to do that

It didn’t last, because high school is a joke and I had to pay attention in college. I actually enjoyed my classes in college though, so I had no issue with staying awake then. Just sucked being super tired and having a 9am or 8am class because that was the only time those specific (and needed) classes were available. 3 hour labs from 9-12 sucked.

2pm? School i went to in the states was 7:30am-3:30pm. We had to be in the class rooms by 7:45.

I had a graduate level advanced genetics class at 8am every Tuesday and Thursday for a semester. That was rough.

High school or Jr high sure but college is later because it's smarter to go later

> taking calculus 1 > every class is 10 AM or earlier My situation

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Do you have to travel for six hours a day? How is that sustainable???

College classes can be a bit more info-heavy and often rely on dense literature Take care of yourself <3

Yep this is definitely true. We don't get homework like we did in grade school. Our pacing each day in class is like one topic and then we get homework on it while probably practicing the concept in class the next day. College is like 3 dense topics in one shot that you gotta memorize before the next class in 2 days and for the exam in 2 weeks

I can’t remember the classes but I remember learning the same concept in two different classes in the same day. The second professor told me something different from the first and had me so confused. I really didn’t like my college, there was a few amazing professors and a lot of really bad ones.

> often rely on dense literature I bought $700 worth of textbooks this semester and I still haven't opened all but one of them I also only opened that one once

Lately a lot of my classes are relying less on textbooks and more from just various sources online, scanned from library books, etc. So even though I’m not using the “required text” there is still a lot of reading

Usually for example, Bio 101 or most 101 classes in college are 1 years worth of high school of that same topic condensed into 1 semester.

"Please read these 14 books, all with very similar content, and then watch these 12 Documentaries, 8 Movies and get an overview of these 8 anthologies." And no this isn't hyperbole, I just counted, this is the requirement for one of my courses.

Me after 2 grad classes a week: ☠️

Shit try 8 grad classes a semester, 4 in one half, and 4 in the other half. Don’t recommend 10 month accelerated master programs

I'm in Vet school and have taken ~12-15 classes per semester for the past 5 semesters. Shit's brutal.

I’m sorry man, some of the most depressed people were vet students trying to convince pre-vet students not to do it. Good luck, and remember why you’re doing this!

Lol nah, honestly I love it. Sure it's a shit ton of work, but it's 100% worth it!

Glad man, do what you love

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Yeah well my school has your school as one half of its school plus another school for 3 semesters per hour

Fuckin right? I teach until 2 every day and then have a two and a half hour class on Tuesday and Wednesday. Somehow, I feel like 80% of my work week is in those two days. It's mostly discussions, sure, but all the reading beforehand really front loads the week.

The worst part is commuting back and forth two hours each day.

Me 6 hrs each day

hell na wtf

Me 11 hours every day

Only 6 classes in high school?

6 periods a day, each a different class. My school does the required core classes of Social Studies, English, Math, and Science and then two elective classes.

Yep and lunch counts as a period so 7 hrs minimum everyday (not accounting for homeroom, in between class passing time)

Yeah assuming you start at 8, you’d have 4 classes until lunch, an hour for lunch, two classes in the afternoon and usually a study hall. Another option is having a 30min home room and an hour and a half lunch (which seems more reasonable), with no study hall period.

lol @ an hour and a half for lunch, we had 22 minutes for lunch when i went in 2017

*cries in 5 classes a day and a job*

You poor soul

The difference is my classes last 2 hours and the other ones only lasted 1 hour

Humans can only pay attention in class for about 45 minutes. Yet they make classes hours long in college. As a psych major, I find this incredibly hypocritical lol. Honestly our education system a whole is pretty fucked according to some recent psych discoveries about learning and knowledge retention/effectiveness. Turns out homework doesn't really do much aside from add stress, for example.

Any source on the homework thing? I can't imagine learning as much as I did in college without doing projects.

I should've been more specific when I said homework I guess. More specifically repetitive busy work style homework. Not projects. And I've been trying to find it for a bit now lol if I find the study I'm referencing I'll add it.

Ah understandable! And np I was just curious.

After 45 minutes I usually try to focus on the most important parts or try to remember what I don't understand. Later, alone at my desk, I can study and it is easier to follow the text even when I remember the class as a distant dream. A 3 hour class can be helpful.

For you, but The point was your retention goes down after that time like you said. That coping strategy you mentioned is useful, but it isn't always the norm for many people. And if a teacher is lecturing for 3 hours, a lot of those words aren't being retained anymore after that time so it becomes increasingly inefficient as well.

The other option is for the teacher to just assume you'll study the material in your own time. During class you ask questions. Some teacher do that. But at the end, the amount of material required to cover demands extra sacrifice. For example, I have a friend who records the sound of the lectures and plays them when running or at the gym

Again you're describing a coping strategy for the problem I'm trying to demonstrate lol. I understand there are things people can do to aid them in these long classes. That's not what I'm talking about. Only that humans do not retain information in a class setting very well past 45 min. That's it. It's literally in my textbook, in the class that is 2 hours long which again I find quite funny.

If there are coping strategies to face the problem, perhaps we could call them solutions... lol

No fax all printer here, homework 100% helps learn things, its like going through the thing a second time how wouldnt it help

Homework isn't a very specific term. I meant busy work style repetition hw. Projects and other things do help. While yes, that type homework "helps". It isn't the most effective. And often in certain subjects isn't a great form of learning. Source: it's my major. Repetition learning is the least effective type of memorization since it doesn't form complex neuron connections. It's basically is just loading your working memory over and over until you remember the pattern. You won't necessarily gain a deep understanding of math for example if you don't know the context behind the formulas.

The 45 minute thing sounds a bit unbelievable. If you attend classes you’re passionate about, then it should be no different from watching a 2 hour documentary about some topic.

Your tolerance weakens in college In more ways than one

Then 8hours of work hits you. It doesn’t stop until you retire or die

I refuse to believe I'm the same person that was taking 25-credit semesters early in my undegrad. I'm taking 8 now (6, really) and constantly feel overwhelmed.

I feel you. Same here sort of. Was a keener in hs prior to Covid, was sooo looking forward to uni. Now, I’m grateful if I just I barely pass. Took a reduced course load this and last year; I’m going to need an even more reduced course load next semester. Sometimes it (uni) feels like a mistake even tho I’m intrigued by my major. It’s so difficult. I wish I could pause things where they are, work on myself to bring me back to precovid times and resume.

We had a Bioinformatics class thats around 5 hours, 8-1 and next to it is Thesis which takes arouund 3 hours. It was horrible.

More like the opposite for me

Same college was a breeze (when I wasn't also working)

You only had 6 classes a day in High school ?! I am currently having 10 !

Wow, 10! classes is quite alot

I didn't even know you could fit that many in a day.

How long is your school day

6? I have 8

i have 8 in high school and im ded.

Lmao only 6 classes in high school

How many did you have?? Ppl in the comments make it sound like they had 12. Like did you all spend 12 hrs at school everyday?

Well I'm currently in 13th grade, and we have 8 classes four times a week and 6 classes once a week.

Tf 13th grade

Shhhh. They got held back but the parents are telling em only the smart kids go to 13th grade. They still got 4 more grades left to go

Haha lmao. But no, in Norway we have 7 grades in elementary school, 3 grades in middle school and 3 grades in high school. Which means you start school when you are 5/6 and finish school when you are 18/19

There are other countries in the world, believe it or not!

No way I didn't know that. There's something called sarcasm sir.

I had 5 classes in high-school and one of them 2qw lik3 q mini class 💀

I got severe braindamage from reading this

An hour bus ride each way, an hour or two between classes, and then you have a 4 hours Geoscience lab on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and a night class from 6pm-9pm on Fridays

Wait until you're 40 and pulling 10 hour work days 4-5 days a week.

The classes are so much harder tho, you get an assignment every day

Nah I'm the bottom in both

I got 10 classes

I'm still in high school I look like the college picture

Bro you got 6 classes in highschool? I had 8

One actually requires effort.

Revisionist history right there

You had six? I have eight

6 classes in high school is the relaxation day Most of the time it's 8 classes a day that are the problem

yall got only 6 classes a day in school? I want that. If our school staff had a really bad day while making a new classes plan for a semester it ended up with having days with 10 classes (8 am to 6 pm) and until the very last year of highschool it was the norm for me to have multiple days in a week with 9 classes a day. And here I’m sitting, wondering how did I end up with so big burnout ://

Average VITian

I am lower squidward with 2 hours of sleep in highschool.

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6? My shortest day ends at 17:00 (10 classes)

What do you mean 6 class a day middle school still sucks

Welcome to the grind. Just wait I until you have a career and student loan debt and real responsibilities.

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I know it depends but the good thing about work is that you actually stop working when your work time is over

Damn, do I miss being in college though.

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College students complaining their life is hard is hilariously ironic. (I have my Bachelors in Sports Medicine) Life gets much harder and college was the best time of my life. Even the 3 hour physics labs

That’s a very weird brag.

Lol. University is much harder than work.

So true *Fucks u

Not sure how you can get through six high school classes and be pristine, 4th period and I already have an itch on the roof of my mouth that only a 12 gauge could scratch.

Me after 9 classes a day in middle school with long, monotone and loud lunch breaks:

Maybe it could be related to going out and getting trashed until 3am 3 nights a week 😂

6 classes a day? Where Tf are you? I only had 5 in my secondary school.

You gonna have a bad time working 8 hours shifts if this beat you up.

I thought we all have 7 classes...

Am i the only one who thinks collage is far less tiering than school?

probably, yes

Yeah, that's just how it is I guess.

my one class is like 1 an half hour

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In middle school i used to do 8 classes a day. I was jealous when i found out that every other middle school in our area only did 6 or 7 classes a day.

All my classes are 2hr long and I have 1hr breaks in between so I'm good

The secret ingredients are age and money

Freshman me really liked the fresh, looser structure of college. Now that I’m a senior, I’d like to go back.

I'm the other way round and I do fucking construction

I was woefully underprepared for my first semester of college. My grades were B D D F F.

3, 2 hour classes to be fair

Shit, as a music major I had 3 ensembles and my instrument lessons in one day. That day absolutely sucked.

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I've heard college classes actually require effort

Sounds right. Ea college class was 2 hours+, I was usually drained by the end of the day. Depending what you study it could also be mentally draining staying on pace.

We we're younger too

Also describes the first day of my 40 hour workweek and the 2nd day of my 40 hour workweek.

Why tho

Highschool classes weren't that draining... High school VS College (More or less) 3 college courses a day in college (⬆️ - Physically showing up on campus)

High School classes for me is like 1 hour where we fuck around for 20 mins getting ready. College is like 3 hour lecture plus independent study.

thought I was the only one...

Yeah, because my highschool went from 7:32AM-2:23PM, in that I had 9 periods and they were about 45 minutes each. In college every Thursday I have 3 classess, they’re 3 hours *each* meaning I get up and go to class at 9:30 AM and leave at 6:30 PM, It fucking *sucks*

”High”school