Tomorrow will be our last day of classes! By the time most of you read this, it will be done and over with. Tonight I was writing a family member an e-mail explaining the type of work that we are finishing up tomorrow. I crunched some numbers and came up with the following. *Please note that I did the math for someone taking 9 credits like myself. If you're taking ten, give yourself an extra pat on the back.*
Guys, that is pretty outstanding. I think that our group has demonstrated a great deal of maturity, strength, endurance, and a passion for learning as seen in our interactions in class and with each other and our professors. I am really excited to get to Europe and put some cultural flesh on the skeleton of knowledge that we and our amazing tour directors have created!
"I just took nine university credits in two weeks. Most people, even fellow university students, don't understand quite how that works so I'll explain it a little. Your average university class will meet for about 3-5 hours a week, for 16 weeks. That equals 64 hours of lecture time, plus an average of 2 hours of library studying per every hour of class lecture. So for an average, 3 credit class one will spend about 192 hours on in 16 weeks. Not bad.
But do the math for my classes. 9 credits, times 64 hours per credit, in 14 days, equals about 576 hours worth of work. w-o-w.
Also, a cool fact I just noticed, these above numbers (with the exception of 14 and 3-5) are all prime numbers. I guess I could call the last two weeks the most prime weeks I've spent in my university career."
Europe - here we come!
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