ATOT College Student Crew

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

That last bit is a scary piece of truth...

I worked construction for over 30 years, and as hard as that was some days, for the most part, school is harder in its own way.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

Not completely true. I don't think school is "hard" so much as time consuming. Work ends when it ends, but responsibilities in school never do, especially if you are more than casually involved in club and volunteer activities in addition to holding a part-time job or two.

I'll decide whether or not the "real world" is worse than college soon enough. I start my full-time job in June

Of course sjwaste has most of us beat, but that's as expected of 3Ls about to take the bar

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

Not completely true. I don't think school is "hard" so much as time consuming. Work ends when it ends, but responsibilities in school never do, especially if you are more than casually involved in club and volunteer activities in addition to holding a part-time job or two.

I'll decide whether or not the "real world" is worse than college soon enough. I start my full-time job in June

Of course sjwaste has most of us beat, but that's as expected of 3Ls about to take the bar

Work ends when it ends? Man if only that were true.
I'm not talking just about "work" either, I'm talking about LIFE after college. There's A LOT more to it than just some job you (hopefully) get.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i'm in week 4 of 10 on my spring term

 

[xanis]

2 weeks of classes (including this week) left, then a buffer week. The buffer week is going to be absolute hell.

 

[Demo24]

Finals week for me but this semester is going to be a breeze compared to my previous ones. All my finals will be my final test, so just have to do normal studying. Since they are spaced out this week it means I actually have more time to prepare for them than I normally would. Ironically the 2nd week after spring break was my most stressful week, and from there out I've been in chill mode. Kind of hoping I get to exempt my German final so I will be finished by 8:30am on Friday

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: S Freud
What term are you guys in? I'm just starting the third week of the term...no finals for another six weeks.

Sounds like you are on a quarter schedule as well? 3 quarters, plus a summer quarter offered?

That's how it is here. Just started week 4, got 6 left and then finals week.

This quarter is going to test my will and patience, severely. Oh, and probably test my self control, hopefully I don't go and off someone who annoys me.

Not so much that classes are tough, but final quarter of prep for my summer training, and a lot of evaluations and other things. My career is about to be decided from performance this quarter and over the summer. Argh. And still have one year left of school but can relax some, or just be really pissy if I get a shitty duty assignment.

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

Not completely true. I don't think school is "hard" so much as time consuming. Work ends when it ends, but responsibilities in school never do, especially if you are more than casually involved in club and volunteer activities in addition to holding a part-time job or two.

I'll decide whether or not the "real world" is worse than college soon enough. I start my full-time job in June

Of course sjwaste has most of us beat, but that's as expected of 3Ls about to take the bar

Work ends when it ends? Man if only that were true.
I'm not talking just about "work" either, I'm talking about LIFE after college. There's A LOT more to it than just some job you (hopefully) get.

Well this is true, but it's a completely different work environment.
In school, there is so much bullshit, not to mention all of the testing. Not everyone handles tests all that well, and require a ton of unnecessary effort just to master a test due to how a particular professor writes the exams.

I hate school, the way it is handled just pisses me off and I'm tired of it. If you are in any kind of BA degree program, the main career things you learn from school are the life lessons that come with balancing school and any social life, and maybe work on the side.

But seriously, other than the social life, I'd rather just trade school for a career right now. With work, after you get through the period of being knew, you know whats constantly expected, it becomes relatively routine (depending on career, obviously), and its a solid schedule. This makes life a whole different ballgame compared to college, where well... you get none of that. Not a single thing about college makes life stable, and for some of us, that is more stressful than anything a career could throw at us. Stable schedules, deadlines that are handled differently, and no longer being tested on paper but 'tested' on how well you can apply what you have learned through life and training. And in my career of choice, there will be daily tests, and finals where lives are on the line - that kind of changes the approach and will provide a more manageable life imho.

Easier? There is no easy, it's all about the type of stress and how it is manageable.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Three separate team projects due
One independent ecological modeling project due
Exams
At least the thesis is finished

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

I have a full time job (40 hours/wk).

And full time school (18 credit hours this semester).

Luckily, I have my Cisco class that's going to be a bitch and then study for accounting and the other finals. Cisco and accounting are the two I'm worried about this semester though.

 

[TallBill]

Still have 3 weeks left. Shouldn't be too crazy though, I don't think. I'm mostly dealing with the craziness of life at the moment.

 

[911paramedic]

This semester is easy, but I am taking a 16 week microbiology class over the summer term. (6.5 weeks) Summer is looking grim, M-Th 9-2:00.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

So being on campus from 8am to 9pm every day then staying up at home til 2am working is easier than a real job? No to mention, putting in 6-8 hours a day on the weekend.

 

[sactoking]

Every week is hell week. I work full-time. I go to school full-time. I commute. My wife's pregnant.

Finals are done May 13 for me. Between now and then I have a test (today), a Harvard Business case due, a 5 page paper, a 20 page paper, 5 3 page papers, 3 interview write ups, 3 book reviews, a paper of indeterminate length on the proposed 'Stimulus Tax' that passed the House and died in the Senate, and 2 final exams. Then I get three weeks off (which will be spent on the road for work) then I start summer sessions. One week after summer sessions finish, I start the fall term.....

 

[speg]

Hell week was last week. This week I am begging profs for mercy

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Wait until you graduate and get a job... then it is hell week full time.

This is so completely true. College kids think school is "hard" The real world is not better kids. Not to mention, at the going rate you wont have jobs ready for you when you graduate.

So being on campus from 8am to 9pm every day then staying up at home til 2am working is easier than a real job? No to mention, putting in 6-8 hours a day on the weekend.

Seriously. I've gone back to school and am taking heavy credit loads to get through fast, and trying to pull A's.

This is way more work than I ever put in working IT. Sure in IT sometimes an emergency would come up and I'd have to stay late / come in early, but I always got compensated for that with a day off, or a nice lunch out with the gang, or something.

 

[TecHNooB]

3 projects + 1 presentation + 2 papers + need to avoid my first B in 2 years

^ Hell week.

 

[waffleironhead]

I'm sitting in the cisco lab trying to finish up all my chapter exams and labs. Packet tracer/wireshark. Router configs. Bleh!

 

[Howard]

I hate when people say that work is harder than school. Please complete an engineering program before you say that.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: Howard
I hate when people say that work is harder than school. Please complete an engineering program before you say that.

I AGREE!

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: Bibble
I still have three weeks to go but in that time I have to complete:

- 20 page research paper for my seminar
- 15 page research paper
- 14 page research paper
- 10 page final
- 6 page final (today's task)
- 5-10 page final
- 5 page response paper

This is going to suck.

Is your major English or History?

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Howard
I hate when people say that work is harder than school. Please complete an engineering program before you say that.

It's nothing to be ashamed of, or to try and prove. Heck, most of go to school so that our life will be easier in the future. That's the goal.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: Howard
I hate when people say that work is harder than school. Please complete an engineering program before you say that.

It's nothing to be ashamed of, or to try and prove. Heck, most of go to school so that our life will be easier in the future. That's the goal.

Er, thanks, I guess. Not too sure what you're trying to say there, but I'm just peeved by that particular generalization.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
So, who else is going through hell week(s)? High school students need not apply, this is for undergraduates and up, kiddos.

It's 2:40AM here and I think I can finally catch some shut-eye before I have to wake up at 7AM and do this all over again

I keep telling myself it will all be over at the end of the month and I can relax in the week leading up to graduation...

/blog.anandtech.com

isn't it too late in the year to rush a frat?

 

[RagingBITCH]

rofl. Hell week. You think you have it "sooooooo tough" in college. Please, give me a break. :roll: