The workload is certainly difficult (most colleges have their students take 8 courses a year, Caltech students take 15) and homework problems usually take a while to do. And if you can really get that right it doesn't feel like work so much it just feels like iteration and improvement of yourself which is very much in line with the purpose of being there anyway.
It's not only hard work, it's more just your attitude. And losing an awareness that stopped me from benefiting from the work I was putting in. I've definitely been in the trap before of working hard but also losing sight of why I was doing it. I think it also just takes a level of awareness of what you're doing and why you're doing it. He spends at least 60 hours per week if not more on them. My roommate who is completely insane takes ridiculously hard classes all the time. I guess it just depends on the semester and how much you choose to stretch yourself.
more or less a full time job but spread out.
Last year for example in a day I would spend maybe seven to eight hours studying. It's really stretched me often because the homework is not very easy all of the time so part of tackling that is going to many office hours which are help sessions to basically finish those tasks and I think that’s where most of the learning and academic stretching comes from.Īt times it's been a little overwhelming with an almost crazy amount of time being sunk into it, but overall I think it's quite a good thing and means you have a more rigorous education. We have a ‘problem culture’ here where you learn some mathematical concepts and have to solve a bunch of them on the concepts you’ve learned. There's a very strong problem set which basically means homework. So for me I did Applied Math which means a ton of the classes I take are obviously math classes, and typically STEM classes have weekly assignments, so it was the first time where I really felt like I had to do really rigorous homework. A: (Soumil Singh, Harvard Class of 2020) One of the few components to every week is class.