Student takes one year to complete 4-year U.Va. degree

AP/The Daily Progress via The Free Lance-Star ^ | 19 Sep 06 | AARON KESSLER

[GSlob]

"Banh ... found the workload wasn't as bad as he thought it might be.
"I found myself sitting around a lot with free time," he said."
Find me a more ringing condemnation of the whole U.Va program as currently structured. An university program worthy of its name ought to be seriously tightened, with workloads increased drastically. Decades ago with the late Miles Pickering at Princeton we compared the notes: Princeton chemistry undergrads over their 4 years there received 10-12% of contact instruction hours in chemistry and cognates [math and physics] their counterparts at Moscow University used to get over 5 yrs program. One could see that U.Va. is not much better in this regard.

[Dianna]

Or he is a genius. I could barely do 20 credit hours without killing myself.

I maxed out at 18 while working part time. When I went to register for my first semester of classes, my parents were with me and I had to see a "counselor".

The "counselor" INSISTED that I could not, absolutely could not, take more than 12 credits per semester! I was the first in my family to go to college, so we had no clue.

By the third day of classes, my sophomore roommie asked to see my schedule, and freaked out! I had thought the whole college thing was rather a breeze! LOL!

When I went back to school after having kids, I did manage 16 credits.

[rwfromkansas]

lol....true!

[CarolinaGOP]

"We all have different gifts. That's not an excuse. It's a blessing. It's mandatory. Be content with who you are and use your gifts with the same enthusiasm the kid in the story does. You can't miss. We'd be in a bigger mess than we are if we were all geniuses.

Oh, and stop and smell the roses too."


That is one of the BEST posts I've seen in a very long time!:)