Gist of article:
I made it, therefore listen to me.
I came up with this idea that you should continue maintaining a side project once someone paid you for the benefit of using it.
Remember, I made it in life, and therefore my idea is right.
I made it, therefore listen to me.
I came up with this idea that you should continue maintaining a side project once someone paid you for the benefit of using it.
Remember, I made it in life, and therefore my idea is right.
A credit-hour is roughly the amount of time you spend in class per week. At my university, most classes were 3 credit-hours. This was usually 1 hour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or 90 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you have 20 credit-hours in one semester, you are spending 4 hours per weekday in classes, not 8.
Depending on your aptitude for the subject, you may spend an equal amount of time studying or working on assignments outside of classes as you spend in them. But if you pay attention in lecture, and are evaluated mostly by exams, you might not need to spend any additional time.
And I will not be taking any time management advice from anyone who admits to getting only 4 hours per night of sleep, thank you very much. This dude should have dropped his second part-time job, and cut the time spent dating in half, or less. And now that we're at it, he should have studied petroleum engineering instead of linguistics. And instead of attending KU, he should have gone to MIT. And his side projects should have been Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Dropbox.~
Other people are not you. The things you did to succeed won't necessarily work for anyone else. They might not even work for you more than once.
- 3h lecture / week,
- more often than not weekly/semi-weekly homework assignment (at least 4h to complete),
- optional weekly lab work (1-2h),
- optional 1 or 2 midterms,
- optional projects/presentations/demos/competitions,
All of the above included in the 3 credits.
Unlike what you say, a 20 credit course load is not 4h work per day. It is much more work.
Quoted from article:
> Throughout my four years at the university, I took
> 17-21 credit hours per semester. In plain English,
> that means I was in classes for 8 hours per day
> followed by several hours of studying each night.
In plain English, author overstated time spent in classes by a factor of 2.
The usual rubric I've seen is that each credit class in the normal system is 3 hours total time per week, the most common arrangements for that 3 hours/credit are 1 hour lecture + 2 hours assumed out-of-class time for 1 credit, or 3 hours lab for one credit (this may be combined in a lecture + lab course, which might have 10 credits for 5 hours of weekly lecture, 10 hours of presumed out-of-class time accompanying the lecture, and 15 hours of weekly labs.)
A quick check of some online college course catalogs confirms that this appears to be approximately the usual rubric (at least to the extent of 1 hour lecture/week = 1 credit, 3 hours lab/week = 1 credit; the assumed out-of-class time for lecture is not explicit in any catalogs I can find.)
So, depending on the mix of lecture and lab (and assuming no less-common patterns are involved), and assuming (as you do with the division by 5) that all the in-class time involved is on weekdays, 17-21 credit hours corresponds to somewhere between 3.4 and 12.6 hours a weekdays of in-class time.
So, 8 hours per day of in-class is not inconsistent with a 17-21 credit load, but it would be a higher lab-to-lecture ratio in terms of credits.
I don't think your unequivocal statement that the in-class time is inflated by a factor of 2 is justified.
My minor in cognitive science was administered by a three-way alliance between the computer science, linguistics, and psychology departments, and nary a one of them required more time in the classroom per week than the number of credit hours. None. The psych professors, of course, dragooned their students into the psych testing pool for a maximum of two hours per semester, but that was not graded, nor in a classroom.
My chemistry lab sections were all 1 credit-hour, and we spent more time than that every week in the chem lab, which I am willing to count as a "classroom" for the purposes of extending the benefit of the doubt.
Classroom time = lecture + 3 x lab . So in order to be in class 8 hours per day, or 40 hours per week, we get this system of equations:
40 = lec + 3 x lab
21 = lec + lab
lec = 21 - lab
40 = 21 + 2 x lab
19 = 2 x lab
9.5 = lab, 11.5 = lec
You didn't do very much homework for the lecture section. You mostly did the lab work from the lab section. Rather than doing your homework in the dorm, you did it at the bench or the fume hood. So even if you counted time in the lab as "in the classroom", that's still 4 credit-hours for the class, 3 in the lecture, 3 in the lab, and maybe up to six in your room if you really had trouble understanding the material.
So I still have to wonder how someone studying linguistics in general and Maya in particular managed to rack up so many hours "in the classroom" per week.
Degree requirements: http://www2.ku.edu/~distinction/cgi-bin/degree-requirements4...
Course catalog: http://www2.ku.edu/~distinction/cgi-bin/6254
I was unable to identify any possible lab sections other than possibly LING120: The Physics of Speech, for 4 credit-hours, and maybe LING 980: Linguistics Field Work, which seems unlikely for an undergrad. Everything else looked like lectures.
Are you just winding me up here? Nobody takes half their course load as labs. Even if you did all hard science classes, you're still only going to end up with no more than 25% your course load credit-hours as lab sections [as an undergrad], which gets you maybe 6 hours "in the classroom" per day. That's still not 8. I don't think you can convince me that number is not bullshit without the author's actual class schedule.
They also wouldn't let you take more than 20 credits in a semester without written permission as it is too likely you will fold under the pressure. I did 18 credits once and it was a pretty horrible experience.
I break this down more specifically in another post [0], but this is generally true of credits assigned for lecture classes, but not of credits assigned for lab classes, which have a much higher ratio of time-in-class to credit hours. Different ratios of lab to lecture credits will, therefore, result in very different ratios of in-class time to credit hours.