Lately I've been realizing how college actually works. Everyone runs on different schedules, taking different classes, learning different materials. Now depending upon your major, you may be taking 12 credit hours or 16. While this number doesn't seem like a crazy jump, in reality it's a huge difference.
They say that in college for every one credit hour you have, you are supposed to spend three hours outside of that class, studying, or doing homework. So as you can imagine, 16 credit hours in a week results in 48 hours outside of class working as well compared to 12 credit hours and 36 hours of work. That is a whole extra 12 hours in a week studying. It seems extremely overwhelming and makes me wonder, how do people even do it? How are students expected to go to school, work a part time job, and spend 48 hours studying? Those numbers don't even account for spending time with family, eating, bathing, etc. I was hoping that after the first couple weeks of school I would've gotten the hang of everything but unfortunately, I haven't yet. It is a lot of stress and a lot of time that I still have yet to discover how to balance.
There really just isn't enough time in a day. The worst part is that I need that time in a day and I don't know how to make the time for it. Life feels like a never ending cycle of waking up, going to school, going to work, doing homework, and going to sleep. Everyday over and over feels the same and every day I'm exhausted and I still don't put in as much time as I need to. With everything going on I wonder am I even doing this right? Is there something more I need to be doing? Something less? I've come to the point of exhaustion where I can't even believe that this is what my life will be like for the next four years and yet I'm still not doing everything correctly.
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