[rfrey]

My engineering degree had six classes per term at 3 hours of class time per course. Two of those would be labs with a 3h lab each week. So 24 hours of in person time per week, with an expectation of 2-3 hours or outside work for every in class hour.

[kodachrome64]

This was probably my biggest gripe with my mech eng degree. Every minute you spent grinding through a difficult topic until you understood it, was a minute that you needed to be studying for another exam or working on a project. In the end I came out with a pretty decent GPA, but a serious case of impostor syndrome as I never really felt like I had absorbed most of the material. Of course engineering is a demanding field, but I've often wondered if students would benefit from having five classes per term.