/lit/ - Literature

what zero group chat does to a mf

>>19286489
that's just how it is on this BITCH of an earth

>>19286489
Relax, compadre. Undergrad is easy. It’s literally just reading and writing.

>>19286489

What's your spring semester looking like? For me, fall was a beast and spring was laid back... 14 credits to include modern philosophy and a creative writing workshop with Fridays off.

Heh, you have no right to complain.
t. STEM Chad

>>19286489
Wait till you start work

University was the biggest waste of my time and money. It’s probably the single biggest mistake I’ve made in my entire life.

>>19286519
fourth year? probably not an undergraduate

>>19286519
My spring semester is an overload of 18 semester hours again, except I have more fun seminars on things like witch hunting and an advanced Latin class. This semester is just terrible because I have alot of "local" history courses so I have to go all the time to my provincial archives and it is just really hard to balance my time with that and do all the other little projects that are consistently due
>>19286603
and yeah I am an undergrad, 4th year history with minor in French. I like academia and the thinking thing but my schedule this semester is going to kill me.
>>19286519
Yes but there is too much reading and writing in too little a time space. I have 7 weeks of american history lectures (online pre-recorded) to make up for before my midterm this Friday, which would be easy except for the fact that I have a thousand other things to do in the hours before

>>19286598
Came here to say this.
If you think uni sucks, it's nothing compared to your career.

>>19286489
university is the only thing i was ever good at. careful what you wish for.

>>19286489
>Memed myself into doing archaeology as part of my degree
Fuck me is it boring.
Reading history is very interesting, and leaves a lot of time for my social life.
Archaeology is a complete waste of time, is utterly contradictory and full of various ideologs who think they know better than the historians writing only a few dozen to couple of hundred years after these events.

>>19286489
Pathetic.

I work 40 hours, study 20 hours and read 12 hours a week. Also have a kid.

Fucking organise your life and get the fuck off the internet you retard.

>>19287094
no one should work more than 30 hours a week

>>19287168
Why?

I choose to, the more money I can leave my child when I die the better, although despite the financial inventive, I won’t work away for more than 2 days.

>>19287168
isn't a 40 hour week, like, the standard? What industry are you in that you can work under 30 hours a week?

>>19287288
>the more money I can leave my child when I die the better
You are fully aware that saving doesn't work anymore, right? Inflation will eat it. You have to invest, and with the way in which finance works, that's a crapshoot and you might very well get obliterated in another 2008 style meltdown.

>>19286600
Bet you never actually engaged with the material or chose a major you didn't like and stuck with it for some other reason.

>>19287394
Why not just buy up a ton of land.

>>19287419
It doesn't make any difference for your future

>>19286489
Be grateful. They gutted my undergrad in its final year and I was left with like 12 contact hours and shit-all readings. Nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs, drink, and fuck. It's the root of my current degeneracy.

Universities, especially in the US, are buckling under the massive need of an overhaul. They're holding us back when they should be leading us forward. It's very sad to see.

>>19287094
>I work 40 hours
good goy

>>19286640
you're gonna have to learn to digest info faster/more efficiently. speed read, read the first/last sentence of each paragraph and mark it if you think it's crucial to understand the greater piece then go back and fully read the ones you have designated, can you split readings w/ a classmate where each of you give each other an outline of the reading that wasn't part of their division of labor. these are tips that were useful to me in law school; i imagine i had to read a great deal more then than you as an undergrad do

>>19287419
If that were true, would it not be a reason to regret it?

>3rd-year EE undergrad
>only doing 12 hours / semester max because I don't hate myself
>still constantly behind on at least one class because I slacked off at the start of the semester
>can barely read more than 20 pages a day because ingesting info is all I fucking do every day and I rarely have enough time to come down from the tiredness after studying to enjoy reading
I really don't know if I'll even finish one book before this semester is over, and I was hoping to have read 5 by now. Now all I'm reading is battle manga since they require a fraction of my brain to enjoy. Unironically what do?

Cliffnotes and ratemyprofessor will save your life. I never used Spark/Cliffnotes because I thought my teachers would instantly see through me in high school. It didn't occur to me until much later in life my classmates were writing plot summaries instead of an analysis.