is having classes every day of the week except weekends normal? [Archive]

NiftyScent

Jul 27th, 2008, 10:28 PM

Kinda depends what program you're in. How many hours of class do you have? I have 15 hours of class each week and I fit them in 4 days comfortably.

CSR

Jul 27th, 2008, 10:30 PM

No, you should always have fridays off.

dmdsoftware2

Jul 27th, 2008, 10:31 PM

is having classes every day of the week except weekends normal for a first year?

Depends on the university. When I was first year, I had 5 days of classes. Many first year courses are more spread out (like 1 hour class on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,1 hour tutorial on Tuesday, lab on Thursday, etc). It's meant to keep you involved so you don't learn bad habits in the first year.

It wasn't until 2nd year when I started getting a day off per week.

dmdsoftware2

Jul 27th, 2008, 10:32 PM

No, you should always have fridays off.

How do you accomplish this? Even 4th year at UofT, Fridays were Tutorial day. 90% of my classes had the tutorial occur on the Friday.

If you interpet as "should laways have fridays off" as being "fridays are skip days" then so be it.

CSR

Jul 27th, 2008, 10:38 PM

How do you accomplish this? Even 4th year at UofT, Fridays were Tutorial day. 90% of my classes had the tutorial occur on the Friday.

If you interpet as "should laways have fridays off" as being "fridays are skip days" then so be it.

Wow, that sucks.

I had 6 courses last semsters in 2 days only. Tues/thurs.

Profs don't want to teach on Mon... day after weekends, wed... mid week, fri ... end of week (reserved for exams mostly).

I couldn't get my classes on mon/wed even if I tried.

It saves me 2 hrs + commuting each day I'm not at school .. thank you!

UofT BBA btw.

CCCC3333

Jul 27th, 2008, 11:38 PM

Yes

infinite.chaoz

Jul 27th, 2008, 11:41 PM

Friday off sounds about right. However, its likely that you have to stay a little longer ie. after 6 on one of the 4 days.

thephenom

Jul 27th, 2008, 11:59 PM

Depends entirely on the program. When I was at UTSC for management, I remember my schedule for a few semester consisted of monday and friday off. It was awesome. :D

cheeseshredder

Jul 28th, 2008, 12:30 AM

Science or engineering: you better believe it is normal.

pitz

Jul 28th, 2008, 12:41 AM

Yes. Be glad that you don't have weekend classes or tutorials.

WTF do you think university or college is, a freakin country club? Or working for the government?

flexwong

Jul 28th, 2008, 01:10 AM

fridays at school are awful. so are mondays.

nyererei

Jul 28th, 2008, 01:15 AM

BornRuff

Jul 28th, 2008, 01:20 AM

Yes. Be glad that you don't have weekend classes or tutorials.

WTF do you think university or college is, a freakin country club? Or working for the government?

lol, I'm yet to hear of a university that has weekend courses. Having courses only 3-4 days of the week doesn't mean you have things easy anyways. The majority of work in univeristy is done outside of class, so your going to be doing school work more than just those 3 days your in class.

Rishi

Jul 28th, 2008, 08:35 AM

Days of classes is a useless metric in university because your classes can be scheduled all throughout the day. How many hours a week of class time do you have? It it's less than 20 and you didn't get a day off you just didn't plan your timetable right.

chauchau

Jul 28th, 2008, 09:39 AM

Depends how many classes you per day.
How many hours per day?
Program?
Year?
University?

LALALa.

A friend of mine in the same program has class only on Tuesdays and Thursday whereas I have Monday-Thursday. Then there are engineers with 300000 hours of class.

pitz

Jul 28th, 2008, 09:57 AM

lol, I'm yet to hear of a university that has weekend courses. Having courses only 3-4 days of the week doesn't mean you have things easy anyways. The majority of work in univeristy is done outside of class, so your going to be doing school work more than just those 3 days your in class.

I had CS tutorials Sunday afternoons and evenings, and EE tutorials Saturday mornings. Nothing earth-shattering.

ragin_pyro

Jul 28th, 2008, 11:47 AM

I think it depends entirely on your university and the program your in. We get Fridays off in the Asper School of Business, but for other programs in my university I believe it's common that you would fill your schedule to have classes everyday.

Damn you people in business!
I haven't had a day off yet, close, but theres always a class that is only offered T/Thur that I have to take.

chauchau

Jul 28th, 2008, 02:05 PM

Rishi

Jul 28th, 2008, 02:06 PM

Sometimes, it's about luck of how your university decides to schedule the classes too. I was lucky enough that my schedule worked out. Sometimes, they might only be one offering for a specific class.

So even if it's "normal", you might be lucky or unlucky enough to have Friday off.
Buddy of mine is going into first year English at York and has a timetable with a 3hr gap in the afternoon, every single day. Sometime your schedule just sucks.

UWO Engineer

Jul 28th, 2008, 08:20 PM

What the **** kind of programs are you guys in. 5 days of classes is very normal......

blizzah

Jul 28th, 2008, 09:00 PM

i have about 3-5 hours of classes/prac/tut every day, mostly becasue thats like teh only way to do it.

Rishi

Jul 28th, 2008, 11:38 PM

What the **** kind of programs are you guys in. 5 days of classes is very normal......
For us engineers, yeah, but artscis don't usually have over 20hrs of week in class.

XxXSnake23XxX

Jul 29th, 2008, 12:02 AM

For us engineers, yeah, but artscis don't usually have over 20hrs of week in class.

+1 for any SCIENCE program

DeltasInTheSky

Jul 29th, 2008, 12:27 AM

For us engineers, yeah, but artscis don't usually have over 10hrs of week in class.

fixed.

vee_one

Jul 29th, 2008, 01:44 AM

wow...not really...your suppose to get a day off

aquariaguy

Jul 29th, 2008, 11:46 AM

is having classes every day of the week except weekends normal for a first year?

1st yr Waterloo Pre-Optometry, we had 35hrs of class. including 3 labs.

IBOPM

Jul 29th, 2008, 11:53 AM

wow...not really...your suppose to get a day off

Non-sense!

Code of Conduct

Jul 29th, 2008, 12:29 PM

lol, I'm yet to hear of a university that has weekend courses. Having courses only 3-4 days of the week doesn't mean you have things easy anyways. The majority of work in univeristy is done outside of class, so your going to be doing school work more than just those 3 days your in class.

York atkinson programs regularly have weekend courses. Some weekday courses have exams on weekends as well.

Asagiri

Jul 29th, 2008, 12:48 PM

York atkinson programs regularly have weekend courses. Some weekday courses have exams on weekends as well.
Well I think Atkinson is the exception considering it was originally designed to be a part-time business school program designed for people who were already working and wanted to complete their degree during their off-days or when their done work. That's why a majority of Atkinson classes are held during late afternoons to evenings as well as weekends.

Code of Conduct

Jul 29th, 2008, 02:16 PM

Well I think Atkinson is the exception considering it was originally designed to be a part-time business school program designed for people who were already working and wanted to complete their degree during their off-days or when their done work. That's why a majority of Atkinson classes are held during late afternoons to evenings as well as weekends.

I know, but it's still a popular business program for full-time students so might as well mention it so people can watch out for it.

5 days a week isn't horrible for first year..sometimes it just works out that way.

lisaz

Jul 29th, 2008, 02:34 PM

I Have Classes Every Weekday..its Normal!!!!!!

Just..cant Do In Another Way..:s

ansh12

Jul 29th, 2008, 03:01 PM

4-5 days is normal. I have a 4 day school because i made my own schedule.

Ansh

jakeer

Jul 30th, 2008, 11:37 AM

Some schools definitely have Saturday labs for science/engineering students (McMaster does for sure), and some also schedule tests on Saturdays. It sucks, but with limited facilities and skyrocketing enrolment, they have to do something to accomodate students.

As for having a day of classes off...yeah, this is VERY program-dependent. Arts students can swing it much more frequently than science/engineering students - I did a science undergrad, and I never had a day off.

thechampion116

Jul 30th, 2008, 04:43 PM

this really depends. I've had class everyday for my first year but that was due to the timing of all the courses I wanted to take.

In 2nd year, I had only Friday's off. Its really dependent on whatever courses your taking and program.

Example/ Your in science and you have labs. They may not occur every week, but its a 3hr time slot that may land on an empty day.

T-man3000

Aug 6th, 2008, 01:19 AM

Never had a day off (in science) but I'm hoping for one this year. Mac does Saturday labs, tests, exams and presentations but no classes that I've ever heard of.

CSK'sMom

Aug 6th, 2008, 02:18 PM

Our oldest picked his timetable block yesterday for Niagara College Niagara Culinary Institute and he has 21 hrs of class a week. He is done at 3:30 on Tuesday's , off Wednesday and not in until 3:30 on Thursdays for 3 hrs of class. He's in first thing on Friday mornings and done by 1:30. :cheesygri

sxz

Aug 6th, 2008, 04:35 PM

One should never take classes on Fridays unless one is in Engineering. That is ironclad.

nabil1122

Aug 6th, 2008, 05:06 PM

fewer classes is not necessarily less work. some just pile u with craplot of reading,
FT engineering = 5 days of classes, if not then you should take a closer look @ ur uni

Dimension

Aug 6th, 2008, 06:31 PM

Typically I go to school M-F, if I pick up a extra class, it's usually on Sat.

MWF, are usually my lectures, and TR are labs and tutorials.

xeodragon

Aug 6th, 2008, 11:08 PM

Having schools 5 days a week is typically normal, depending on your program of course. The sciences will tend to have more intensive schedules (with lectures, labs, tutorials, etc.) but if you have the option of choosing your own courses/timeslots, then you can sometimes fit a day off :).

taco44

Aug 7th, 2008, 03:47 PM

ElvaSoShexai

Aug 7th, 2008, 04:18 PM

1st n 2nd yr i always had 5 days of classes... cause certain classes were always only offered MWF n others were only TTh... which occasional nite class.

but considering i was in anothe city neway it wasn't a big deal... altho after 1st term hving classes on fri afternoon, i always tried to make my schedule so that i finish on fri as early as possible.
i actually had a term that i stuck 5 courses in 2 days... man.. that kinda sucked... especially wen u got 3 midterms on 1 day =/

had terms with 3 days of classes it was better...

i normally nvr go 2 tutorial so it's about 15hrs/wk...

but seriously.. it doesn't really matter in uni... even tho i take 5 courses/term.. during 1 term i only had 6 hrs of class /wk cuz man.. some profs really suk bad... but usually it's 9-12hrs of classes for me

tritium4ever

Aug 11th, 2008, 05:37 AM

Damn artsies, cruising through uni with 15 hours a week of classtime. :evil:

WTB days off in engineering. :rolleyes:

Truemana

Aug 11th, 2008, 11:16 AM

expect above 30hr/week in 1st yr. Waterloo pre-optometry, architecture, or engineering. I never had a Friday off until my last term of mechanical eng. I've also heard 1st yr. architect students will sleep and shower in their studio building.

Other engineers don't occasionally sleep and shower in their building? Or drink? At the national meets, UVic always shows up to be the most hardcore... ;-)

UVic ELEC.