[dclowd9901]

That’s impressive. Between work (30 hours a week) and classes (full time credit load), I’ve never had less free time than when I was in college. And I’m speaking now as someone with 2 young kids and a full time job. Something tells me your experience is not commensurate with the standard college experience. Perhaps you didn’t have a full time job or only took part time credits?

[fn-mote]

> Something tells me your experience is not commensurate with the standard college experience.

I know very few university students with significant work commitments.

In the US, the stereotypical college student is not also holding down any kind of job. Maybe 5-7 hours of "work study" (light work running the reference desk at the library or working in the dining hall).

Frankly, I doubt the majority could do learn a lot and also work a significant number of job hours.

At a community college, it would be very different - most students also holding down jobs, I would guess. At a flagship state university, I would be very suprised.

Evidence in [1]... about 30% of full time students are working 20+ hours/week. Also apparently I was wrong about the low hours being typical; less than 10% are working but < 10 hours/week.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_ssa.pdf

[Davertron]

Yeah, this. I don't have any data to support this, but when I was in school, MOST people didn't have close to full-time jobs. I had a job where I probably worked 10 hours during the week at night and some full 8 hour shifts on the weekends. Most of the people I went to school with (and I would assume, maybe wrongly, that most people in better schools than I went to) didn't work AT ALL while they were in school, it was just those of us less than wealthy folk who actually had to work to have spending money and money to pay for books etc. I don't think my work load was overly demanding, but I was a Comp Sci major, fwiw.

[dclowd9901]

Happy to be wrong here. It sucks to think I had the standard experience given how difficult and draining it was.