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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a big three private high school and then one of those colleges. The big three was way harder in terms of workload and time management.

I worked hard in college. I probably studied, I don't know, maybe eight hours a day, more during exams. But time management was not an issue because I only had four classes and I was neither work study nor an athlete. So I had PLENTY of time to get work done. And I got WAY more sleep than in high school.

I feel like there is something miss here from what you are saying. Did your daughter go to a high school where she only had a couple hours of homework a night? Or did her high school not prepare her well for college level week? Or is she an athlete or have a work study job? She should have plenty of time to get her work done and still sleep 7 to 8 hours a night.

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Similar experience. It's about time management. Way more free time in college than in high school. OP's daughter needs to figure this out. If she's only getting 6-7 hours a sleep it's because she's staying up late catching up when she has plenty of time during the day between classes, after the last class and before dinner, or library after dinner. Sunday afternoons and evenings were always standard studying days at college. It's good preparation for life as a consultant or analyst after graduation.

From what I remember, I typically rose at 9, just had coffee for breakfast, headed to library and prepped for first class, then classes/lunch/library studies through late afternoon. Maybe some chilling till dinner with friends. After dinner back to library, then gym and the occasional campus club event. Bed by 1.

Repeat through Thursday. Friday afternoon after last class typically didn't study but hung out and socialized. Same with Saturdays. Sunday was definitely a study day but leisurely.

I tended to study solo in a quiet corner of the library but plenty studied in groups and made it a social thing too. Not always advisable and that may be the other problem if OP's daughter's "studying" is really talking with friends in the library.[/quote]

I went to an Ivy and maybe averaged 2 hours of homework per night.

These schools sound fairly miserable.

That said, I do wonder with the online ratings of courses/teachers/workloads if it is easier to carve out a better lifestyle these days.[/quote]

But what did you major in? it makes a big difference.[/quote]

Econ.  I never took a humanities class that required hundreds or thousands of pages of assigned reading.  Maybe I knew how to avoid those classes pre-Internet.[/quote]

I'm not this PP but did the same. (not at Ivy) Econ major and avoided any class with tons of reading. I'd love to sit in on those sorts of courses as an adult (still without needing to do the reading). I preferred to take on more analytical courses that used math.

But everyone is different. I had friends who needed to study far more than I did for Econ (and similar) courses...but they loved political science and history courses that piled on reading and had papers. Part of college is learning your strengths and weaknesses and how to balance those in choosing a passion.[/quote]

I took several poli sci classes that I thought were interesting because the professors were a former ambassador and high-ranking former government official.  One of the professors was like 2nd under Secretary of State (?? what that is called).  It is possible because these were not tenured people, the class was not heavy on the thousands of pages of reading.  They were awesome...early 1990s and we were discussing how Russia and Eastern Europe were democratizing and the guy was literally in the room for all this stuff.[/quote]

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