Journal #7985

yeah most of them are going for very few days a week, but SUPER LONG days to fit it all in. It allows you to work more than just weekends which is good.

I'm sure you'll love it

In my first semester of uni, I fucked up my timetable so bad. I don't know if you choose your lecture times the same way I had to at my uni, but here's what I ended up doing after that first semester:

1. Register for subjects well in advance
2. Once the class times are announced for all subjects, make a draft timetable with the fewest early starts, late finishes, and gaps between classes
3. Get up at the time when class registration opens (usually was 8am a week or two before the semester started) and help with the DDOS effort on the registration server as everybody rushes to get in first

For me it ended up being a competition - be faster than everybody else! By the end of my uni career I was able to get two days off each week for most semesters. My worst timetable had a 4 hour gap between classes, that one sucked. (It took me almost 2 hours to get home, so I had to hang around the uni. Usually I just found a good place to sit and play my DS.)

Same uni, same process =P

First semester I just let everything fall into place, wound up with four 8am starts. So yeah, not great. This time I'd actually planned it out a bit more, but didn't get into the sign-ons fast enough to get what I'd wanted. (Wasn't displeased with the result though.) So from now on, I've learned all my lessons, I shouldn't get any bad timetables =)

Not the same for me.
Monday 2 hours, Tuesday 2 hours, Wednesday 4 hours and early lessons (ugh) and Thursday 6 hours (2 optional).

Ugh... i fucked college up more than anyone. I somehow let my 'rents decide commuting was the best option.

I had 12 hour long days, got home only to do homework, and then worked in a grocery store on the weekend. Shit sucked. I spent most of my time sitting in small public parks in Boston smoking and reading books between classes. Being at an art school, I couldn't exactly break out a complete easel and paints or a computer and photoshop on some random bench in the city.

I made more friends with homeless people than other students. Not even a joke. Some of them are nice people just on hard times.

It all worked out I guess as I'm steadily employed anyways, but I can't suggest commuting long distances to anyone but the most hardcore students.

Grats mate. It'll be hard, but you'll definitely enjoy it.

I have to commute to uni too. Generally it seems to be alright but today I'm so tired I'm honestly looking for a quiet place to sit in the corner and have a nap right now.
Normally I spend time between lectures in the library but I'm afraid that I might start snoring and get kicked out.

'grats mate!

I commuted to school, which sucked but you make it work. I almost always had gaps between my classes, so i would spend that time doing homework so i almost never had to take work home.

each semester registration was always a bitch, and you were lucky to get any classes you wanted, but it got better as upperclassmen get earlier times to register, so more classes are available. (i don't know how it works in your uni)

In my uni you basically get what you're given, and there's not really any choice in the matter. It doesn't really make that much of a difference though, as things seem to be on at the same time. For example, 9am Monday I have an electrics lab, but if I didn't have that then Inwould instead have a computers lab, or a report writing tutorial. And while you can swap things around, to be put into a class you have to find someone already in that class who's willing to be put into your old one. Although most days are pretty busy, and I tend to have classes from 9am to 5pm, with an hour break in there somewhere.
Luckily today was an exception, so I managed to get a 2 hour nap in on a comfy seat in an out of the way corridor.

Ok, the courses ar finally over. This has been literally the worst school day I've ever had. After a couple of hours I could barely keep my eyes open.
Hopefully, the rest of the week is clearer.

Oh btw, I'm studying in english,

Yeah cap't, I knew commuting was manageable and that tons of other people did it. I didn't anticipate that it would be different at an art school however. I can't exactly whip out an easel and paints and water and all that on the train

I had a free ride my first 2 years. Didn't even have to register myself. It was done for me
Then I graduated and went on towards my BS degree and boy what an awakening. I work full time and go to school part time and ALL my classes are afternoons. Commuter parking is horrible and I have to drive the main highway through my states Capitol to get to school. Traffic blows. Paying for gas blows. Paying parking tickets blows.
School blows.
And differential equations makes me want to kill myself.

But it's not that bad. UNI friends are usually better than HS friends. Everyone's more mature and less awkward (mostly)
Welcome to the real world you'll do fine.