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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, you’re a nightmare.  You should apologize to your son.

I set up my schedule with three days on and two off because it gave me large chunks of time to write papers and study.  Fortunately, my parents didn’t even consider overriding my decision.  Honestly, I don’t think it would have occurred to them to micromanage to that degree.[/quote]

although I agree with you, it might be legit to point out that scheduling classes with 10 minutes in between might be a problem on a big campus.  I was on a campus where it couldn't be done sometimes.  If they're in the same building no problem, but I'd tell my kid to look at the campus map and make sure the choices are feasible.[/quote]

OP here.
His Thursday classes are also back to back, but in buildings that are only a 4 minute walk apart.  For the M/W/F classes it wasn't as much about the back to back (though I wasn't thrilled) but the fact that each and every one of the 4 morning classes was half a mile away from the next, and only ten minutes to get there.[/quote]

I don't understand. He's an 18 yr old male. Does he have some kind of fatigue issue? Does he not consume enough calories? Why is it SUCH a big deal that he'd have to cover a half mile in 10 min??[/quote]

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