/lit/ - Literature

>Reaching the point where you don't know if this is a poor troll or an elitist child has stumbled into /lit/

This is a painful place to be in, fuck you OP.

Manual labour plebian from the other week.

>Been waking up at 5am to study (100 english papers)
>Coming back from work, doing more study
>Flatmates friend comes over
>Asks what I'm studying
>Laughs
>Turns out the paper doesn't even start for a week
>Says three hours of study a week on the paper is all he had to do and should suffice (C+ grade)
>mfw I'm a month ahead.

Did I have a gross misconception about university study? The university recommended 12.5 hours of study a week so that's what I thought I should aim for to be average. I thought this was a place where you invest your time like a job and go at it hard/treat it seriously. Can the average student really treat this like school and be able to pass?

It costs me 52 hours of labour to even be able to do the paper so of course I'm going to get my money's worth.

How does one wind down after an 8 hour day of doing a physical, manual labour job to prepare for 2 or 3 hours of study?

My best stategy so far is a hot shower and half an hour of mindlessly looking at memes on facebook.