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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op.  You are right, your son is not giving himself enough time to get between classes and he will have too many exams/assignment falling due the same day of the week.

18 credits is a lot even when they are split between M/W/F and T/H.

That said, your kid has his reasons for wanting a light T/TH.  He is the one who made this schedule and he'll have to work it out with his professors if he's consistently a few minutes late every day.  He may ask his professors if he can leave class 5 minutes early in order to make the classes on time.

He would have figured it out and you should have let him figure it out.  I totally understand where you were coming from though.  Your his mom and you don't suddenly stop looking out for his best interests the minute he goes into college.  I get it.  But you need to back off.[/quote]

OP here.  Thanks.   Yes, my main concern was getting from class to class in that ten minute break, when it takes a full ten minutes just to walk between buildings.   Just one "sprint" would probably be ok, but having 4 back to back classes where EVERY time, he would have to sprint between classes, just seemed insane to me.   I don't think he or the advisors looked at which buildings the classes would be held in when they designed the schedule.  The advisors were working with hundreds of students.[/quote]

They make those things with 2 loopy thingamagits on each end.  you sit on it and move your legs and it gets you places a lot quicker than walking.[/quote]

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