how do you find time to do anything?

littlepinkstars44

between classes and work. i have no time at all for anything else.
i hardly have time to see my boyfriend, do my washing/ironing, tidy my room, never mind do homework.

How do you all manage your time?

Mike1989

Well I'm in Mondays and Tuesday next semester, off the other three days. Work Sundays and the odd Saturday here and there. Admitted I live at home and travel in so I have less commitments than those living in. But I find time to do my work, and go play snooker and pool, and go out with my friends. But I suppose it depends on what course you are studying as some you are in every day and that is probably a big difference to me.

littlepinkstars44

i'm in college:
Monday 9-4:15
Tuesday 10:45-2:30
Wed: off (rest of my class are in cause they do french, but i have higher french)
Thursday: off (this is our day off, but i used to go in 2-4 for a Uni Spanish class, finished this week)
Friday: 9-10:30 then 1-2:30

and i work
Tuesday: 4-9
Thursday: 4-10
Friday: 4-10
Sat: 12-9
Sun: 12-8

I also live at home and get the bus to and from college, takes an hour each way

Lokolo

I have 12 hours a week, easy peasy. Out of leture/tutorial times I usually do around 5-6 hours a week until about 2 weeks ago when I've been doing more or less 4 hours a day or so. Weekends I usually relax and sleep in.

Haven't seen gf in 2 weeks eek, finish this week though, going home friday night, work Sat day, Sun day, see gf Sunday night.

I don't have a job partime (well I do but its casual so sometimes I work a Sat or few hours a day, sometimes nothing for weeks) so I have quite a bit spare time. However I am in my second year, first year I had no time to do anything!

Mike1989

Makes me wonder what my uni is getting paid for. This semester I had a one hour lecture on Monday followed by a one hour seminar. On tuesday I had a one hour lecture and a one hour seminar. On Friday for half the semester I had a two hour discussion type thing about teachign history and the national curriculum. Next semester I have one hour lecture, one hour seminar on Monday. On Tuesday I have two one hour lectures and two one hour seminars. That hardly appears antything when you take it up to weekly amounts;

3 hours lecture, 3 hours seminar. 6 hours a week, then again i am doing history so I have reading and research t do. Probably the reason behind the very light workload...

littlepinkstars44

Mike1989 wrote: »

Makes me wonder what my uni is getting paid for. This semester I had a one hour lecture on Monday followed by a one hour seminar. On tuesday I had a one hour lecture and a one hour seminar. On Friday for half the semester I had a two hour discussion type thing about teachign history and the national curriculum. Next semester I have one hour lecture, one hour seminar on Monday. On Tuesday I have two one hour lectures and two one hour seminars. That hardly appears antything when you take it up to weekly amounts;

3 hours lecture, 3 hours seminar. 6 hours a week, then again i am doing history so I have reading and research t do. Probably the reason behind the very light workload...

wow i can't wait to go to uni, it seem much easier than college to me! lol
no idea what semester, and seminar mean though lol

Lokolo

Semesters are 'terms'.

Each uni year you have 2 semesters, each 12 weeks. Semester 1 runs (depending on when uni starts for you) from Sep/Oct -> Dec/Jan, then Semester 2 runs from Jan->April/May/June

Mike1989

And seminars are basically discussions about any reading that was set for the week, anything that came about in the lectures, you also do presentations during that time as well. Depends on your course, but my lecture/seminar work load is barely anything to a few I know who do computing who are in near enough every day.

Suppose its easier, but you also have to do a lot of reading depending on course, and for essays you need to do quite a bit of research. On average a year one essay had 3 specialist sources, maybe 4. This year you are expected 5 specialist sources including articles and journals which historians publish. So its a lighter work load, but the research and reading take up a lot of time. Not bad I suppose.

Bluebird24

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

wow i can't wait to go to uni, it seem much easier than college to me! lol
no idea what semester, and seminar mean though lol

I worked about 25 hours a week part-time at college, did 4 A-Levels full-time, got straight As and still managed to have some kind of social life.

At uni it all went to pot. I also did History and by the third year there were some weeks when we had 3 hours of contact time. The less contact time you have, the more work you're expected to do off your own back. The more time in the library you have to spend, the more books you have to read, and without an awful lot of guidance. It's all about motivating yourself to do it, which I found a lot harder than the hours and hours we spent at sixth form college having information drilled into us and being forced to work. The work's a lot harder as well, surprise surprise! Although I guess it depends which uni you go to as I heard some tales from friends elsewhere that would suggest otherwise.

Oldernotwiser

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

i'm in college:
Monday 9-4:15
Tuesday 10:45-2:30
Wed: off (rest of my class are in cause they do french, but i have higher french)
Thursday: off (this is our day off, but i used to go in 2-4 for a Uni Spanish class, finished this week)
Friday: 9-10:30 then 1-2:30

and i work
Tuesday: 4-9
Thursday: 4-10
Friday: 4-10
Sat: 12-9
Sun: 12-8

I also live at home and get the bus to and from college, takes an hour each way

I'm not surprised you have no time; I make that 34 hours per week! Aren't you eligible for any student funding?

Mike1989

Well I have to admit that comparing history from A-Level to Uni you can start to see the big difference. At college, although they don't hold your hand, they do give you a lot of guidance, facts and figures, and hand outs for you to revise from. Therefore, less research you need to do yourself and reading in reality. But at uni you might get the lecture slides depending on who is teaching, and, you might get hand outs and other fact sheets. But as you say, most of it comes through your own work and motivation to do it. Big difference from college were you can near enough waltz right through doing a bare minimum and get a decent grade. I regret my time at college as I know I could have done much better than I did but hey Uni is going well and that is what matters.

As for which uni suppose it does depend. But if you are doing American history you still read the same books, articles etc. And have to answer questions in the same way. Maybe markers are more harsh and want more at Cambridge Oxford unis than say Manchester and Lancaster, but, as far as I'm concerned. As long as you work hard, do your research and all that jazz, you'll comeout with a good degree whatever uni you come from. Might be wrong though as it might be harder to get a 1st at Oxford than Manchester or Lancaster. Someone really should do some research into that as a dissertation.