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hugh3 on Oct 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropping out is probably not for you

40 hours per week? Sure, maybe if you're a total conch.

For me, undergrad was more like eighteen hours a week for fourteen weeks, then fifty hours a week for one week. And that was with a heavy physics/maths courseload.

cperciva on Oct 25, 2011 [–]

I was trying to be generous. Some students come out of college nowhere near to being half-good at anything. ;-)

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