I doubt many of you care.....but i think you might find it funny to see how much i will have to study in the 2nd Year of Veterinary.

I have 22 HOURS!!! of pracs every week.

All up i have 36 hours of classes every week......that aint including study time.

Dont most uni people have like 10 hours a week? So yeah there goes any social life that i had.....oh well.

The standard working week is 38 hours :|
Welcome to Earth.

But the standard uni week is ten! I aint an adult yet and need my free time to do stupid crap like play guitar and get drunk 3 times a week.

last edited by smashingpumpkin at 13:11:07 18/Feb/05

I feel your pain.
I have college 3 days a week and because I chose to do an accelerated DipIT my total hours of being on campus is 30 a week.

I also work on Thursdays and Fridays for 8-9 hours. So I'm doing 46 hours a week minumum and sometimes up to 54 hours total a week [casual Sunday work].

last edited by jesu at 13:11:52 18/Feb/05

its a hard life boys. get used to it. 12 hour day for mes 5-6 days a week

I dont think i am gonna have time to have a job =\
At uni basiclly from 8-5 from monday to friday means i will only be able to work on the weekend. And good luck for me, a 20 year old getting a job over a 16 year old. I never got any shifts on the weekends at my old job. BAH

When I did science we were at uni for 25hours a week. It wasn't that bad, when you think about it all you'd be doing otherwise would be sitting at home bumming around.

yeah when i did law it was like 20 hours but some of my mates doing engineering and other science stuff were more like 38.

don't worry you will be working heaps more than that on earth once you leave uni.

Science was fun when i did it....so bludgy.

smashingpumpkin - Uni isn't 10 hours a week. It is usually 10 or so contact hours a week but you are suppose to study and research for the other 30ish

So i should therefore be dedicating 66 hours of a week to uni?

Lol sounds about right though.

But the standard uni week is ten!

The standard time spent per course is 5 hours a week* (give or take). This consists of only official lectures, tuts and pracs. So a 'standard' uni week of 4 courses should should be 20 hours without overloading.

Though at UQ, lecturers throw in optional 'Contact' sessions which don't count towards the 5 hours to help with harder courses. Uni policy prevents them from asking for more than 5 hours a week for some reason.

* = from my experience at UQ and Griffith anyway.


last edited by parabol at 13:33:56 18/Feb/05

Welcome to Uni. Those are recommended hours that you _should_ be doing if you're aiming high i.e.you want to get good grades, you don't have to do them to the T but your grade will reflect the amount of work you've put in - unless you're one of those people who's just a freak and just absorb and retain knowledge quickly without a lot of work.

Seeing that you're doing a medicine field, the long hour is to be expected, get use to it.

Poor f***ing you.
Hahaha

How many conctact hours do med students have a week?

smashingpumpkin - Uni isn't 10 hours a week. It is usually 10 or so contact hours a week but you are suppose to study and research for the other 30ish

I am quite proud of the fact that in my fourth year of IT doing honours I had 6 contact hours a week, not including meetings with my supervisor. I think my worst year for contact hours was first year. And I really didn't do much work outside of uni... I don't know how I got away with it (stay in school kiddies).

30-36 hours a week here.

Really, it's all to do things inversely...when you're a highly-paid medical practicioner, be it human or animal, you can piss off early and cancel appointments to get in that round of golf with "the lads".


And drive expensive cars.


Short-term pain for long-term gain. :)

last edited by Creepy at 14:01:49 18/Feb/05

36 up to 90 hours of work a week here, try having a social life with THAT!

Marry me bird

marry ur boss, he's gay enough :p

He's got a cool name :)

Ok well i dont have it as bad a some people......lol but i love ot have a bitch!

You know what else pisses me off!??!

I have a tendancy of losing guitar picks.....i leave em lying around everywhere and eventually they get lost. I lose about 3 a week.

So two days ago i decide to buy a guitar pick holder. Bloody awesome.....not a single pick lost in two days. Now, being the smart man i am i somehwo manage to lose my pick holder with all my picks in it......so now i cant play guitar at all GGGGGAAAAHHHH

last edited by smashingpumpkin at 21:36:38 18/Feb/05

at least at uni u get like 86 weeks of holidays each year, i get 180 hours annual leave a year, work it out, its noy many 40 hour weeks, 4.5 to be exact.

I have 22 HOURS!!! of pracs every week.

All up i have 36 hours of classes every week......that aint including study time.

Dont most uni people have like 10 hours a week? So yeah there goes any social life that i had.....oh well.

Wow! And at the end you will be getting mega bucks. You should try working in IT. You will be frequently working 50+ hours for 1/3 of what a vet will get. You will be on call 24/7 in some cases and end abusers will make your life hell :] You will have no social life...you will feel like telling your friends to f*** off because you know they're as dumb as the cock head end users at work....

my contact hours at uni were ~16 hours a week usually.

but lectures were optional so compulsory stuff was 4 hours worth of tutorials if i did 4 subjects, and thats pretty much all I did at uni for 5 years.

i have 10 hours a day for 4 days (some weeks its 4 and a half) 40 hours, (with about half of that being prac) long and hard. :/

oi whitewolf are you doing pre voc electrical at moreton tafe?

f*** that 's s*** hours for uni in rmember only donig 10-12 and didnt' go for half of those anyway
you can get psised 3 times a week easily witht those hours ofnly thing stopping you woudl be money i guyes

omg only f***ing 38 hrs that is nothing man. if you think you will be doing less than that once you are finsihed uni then you are on drugs.

i was working 100 hr weeks now you try having a social life when you are working 6 day weeks man. you don't want to do s*** on your day off because you are too f***ed.

i was working 6 day weeks 10 hr days and i still had a social life, learn to manage your time better.

6 x 10 = 60 hours

fyi

You were averaging 14 hour days, 7 days a week?

I work 40-50 hours a week.

Weekends are for socialising.

and thats why you're here...e-socialising?

no i was working 100hr weeks 17x6 hrs

but i was working 6x10hr weeks for 2 years.

welcome to the world.....i have to work 3 days a week 7.5hr days(9am till 5:30pm) and i also have to do full time uni...

we all have to work hard GET OVER IT!

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