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What are the majors of these students attending full-time and working nearly a full-time hours!? I'm thinking, no one but a genius or a workaholic could pull off a STEM major and this many work hours. As a full-time student in physics, living on campus with a mere two hours of extra-curricular activity per week, I could not even keep up my nine hours a week working at the library.
No kidding. I'm a physics major as well. I've stopped going full-time because the class load in physics at my university. My Asperger's and ADD make hard for me to be able handle the full load with physics. At my school, 10 credits in physics is probably the equivalent of 18 credits or more at other universities. Last fall, when I took Classical Mechanics and E&M (junior level electricity and magnetism class), the professors said that it would take 60 hours of our time for homework outside of those 2 classes. I took one easy physics class along with those two and it totaled 10 credits together. Fortunately, tuition cost about 300 dollars for each of 2 credits, or about $150 per credit. But they do give me trouble sometimes about graduating sooner. Physics really takes longer than 4 years with generals, unless you are really smart or something.
18 May 2014, 4:30 am
