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[lotesse]

Ugh. I'm at once immensely tired of my coursework, and feeling really unprepared for the end of term. I keep psyching myself out over not much really, but somehow since it's grad school it feels like it's all Important and Hard and Scary.

The ideal length of time for a class is an interesting question - I was talking to someone in my cohort about how our 14/15 week semester feels too long to me, and she said that on the contrary, she'd really prefer at least 17 weeks. I think I'd like 11/12, a little longer than my undergrad trimesters, but still brief enough to never turn into a slog.

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[fyrefly101]

14/15 weeks seems very long to me, but then my undergrad terms were only 9 weeks long, and even now, my postgrad is only 10. I'm finding this too short, for a course which I'm picking up from scratch. 12 weeks would be nice, if it meant I simply had more time to read everything.

I keep hearing how important it is to have a work-life balance, or to attend all the guest lectures, or to do something that will boost the CV. But I spend about 6 hours a week on specifically non-uni related things, and the rest of the time trying to get through all my classwork. I don't even have time to work out if I'm enjoying my classes or not!!

[lotesse]

I know exactly what you mean!