expected to have classes for 7 hours straight with no break?

The_One_Who

sh1305 wrote: »

If they changed your timetable, they'd have to change timetables for everyone in the department. Is that reasonable?

In a lot of cases it wouldn't only be the department that would need to change, but the entire university because of possible knock-on effects. And then of course there is the added complication of the college needing to be worked around as well.

easytiger-gb

welcome to the real world. Doesn't sound like you're happy to accept the situation, or any solutions anyone suggests, so you've got two options. Put up with it and stop whining. Or change your course. I'm on the second year of my degree also, by the time I've walked the dog, got children to childminders, got the train to uni, done my lectures and it's lunch time, that's seven hours too.

littlepinkstars44

I can't change my degree, just about to start my last semester ever

I don't mind travelling in for 1 hour classes, otherwise i'd probs be spending the day watching tv in my jammies. i get a monthly bus pass anyway so it doesn't make any difference money-wise for me.

I just can't believe that i'm going to have to have classes all day on a friday!

dmg24

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

I can't change my degree, just about to start my last semester ever

I don't mind travelling in for 1 hour classes, otherwise i'd probs be spending the day watching tv in my jammies. i get a monthly bus pass anyway so it doesn't make any difference money-wise for me.

I just can't believe that i'm going to have to have classes all day on a friday!

Full time work is going to be one almighty shock for you!

Flower08

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

I just can't believe that i'm going to have to have classes all day on a friday!

Believe it. Your not the first student in the world to do it and you certainly wont be the last.
It is defintely going to be a big shock to you to have to get a job when you leave, pay bills and live in the real world.
Eat a packed lunch in the lecture - its not a school classroom, as long as you are quiet lecturers are pretty leniant about what you do.

pretzelnut

OMG I cant believe this question has even been asked.

Have you asked the question of how much time and effort and missed lunch breaks your tutor/lecturers put in.

I say this as we are in college, I'm on the 1st year of a photography HND then onto a degree, 2 full days a week 9.30 - 4.30 which usually always run over, sometimes by an hour, we miss breaks and lunch, and a wednesday afternoon 12.30-4.30.

Some days we get so wrapped up in what were doing and learning that we don't care about lunch we just want to soak up al the information. So we sit their eating our lunches, whilst listening and taking notes, as well as participating in demonstrations.

I have a 90 minute trip to college and obviously the same back home. I take a lunch box and keep plenty of drinks in my locker, so Im not paying through the nose at college.

JESUS you only do 9 hours a week, I probably do about 60+ sometimes up to 80 hours a week (20 hours at college, 20 hours on research, planning etc, and over 20 hours a week on private jobs relating to my course which I get paid for), I have also arranged my own UNPAID work experience as it's vitally important I get a taste of how the indutry works in the real world. I dont need to do this but I want to. I do all this and raise 3 small children, as I want to go places and sitting on my backside moaning will not get me there.

Some days I have no choice but to miss breakfast and don't get to have my tea, till gone 10pm. But thats life.

Your really gonna struggle in the big wide world, what you have written is hardly a glowing endorsement of your commitment to a job. Employers want hard workers, not people who moan at the slightest opportunity.

But saying that, there are plenty of people on my course that behave the same way as you and to be honest their not going anywhere, there just using it as an excuse NOT to join the dole queue as there student loan pays them more each month, so they have more to spend on drink and drugs, but hardly have 2 pennies to rub together to buy the materials they need for the course, so beg for extra money of any charity who will give them a grant, and there never gonna get a job that pays well enough for them to pay it back.

I'm sorry if that sounds a little harsh and most of it may not apply to you but your painting yourself into that box with your attitude to working, but you seriously need a reality check and to get a grip.

Flower08

princesswoo couldnt have said it better myself.

P3dro

I would much rather have your sitution. It would let me work the rest of the week. As it is I have about 2 hours classes a day, spread out. Tomorrow my first class is 9-11. my only other class is 4-5. It's much the same the rest of the week, count yourself lucky, and turn up 10 minutes late for one while you eat a sandwich if you want.

Indie_Kid

Flower08 wrote: »

Eat a packed lunch in the lecture - its not a school classroom, as long as you are quiet lecturers are pretty leniant about what you do.

Exactly. I've had no issues at all with needing to take breaks as & when I've needed them.

claire123c

P3dro wrote: »

I would much rather have your sitution. It would let me work the rest of the week. As it is I have about 2 hours classes a day, spread out. Tomorrow my first class is 9-11. my only other class is 4-5. It's much the same the rest of the week, count yourself lucky, and turn up 10 minutes late for one while you eat a sandwich if you want.

Exactly.
I would love my lectures to be all on one day... even all on two or three days. Your uni is actually doing you a favour with this. Why on earth would you want to waste your days going into your uni for an hour or two? They are doing you a favour IMHO.

OP- either you appear to be very young in your thinking. So what if you have a bus pass? You still have to make the commute into uni and it would be a lot worse to go in every day for one or two hours, believe me.

I'm being when I say this. You are not in a bad position. Sit by the door in each lecture, warn the lecturers in advance, take a packed lunch and walk quickly from one to another, ONCE a week and prepare yourself for full time work.


Like I said earlier, 15 hours commute a week to uni, two part time jobs (25 hours a week) 4/5 days in uni for 4-6 hours a day. The offer is still there to swop? :cool: