You know, they say you should spend three hours outside of class studying the material that was covered in lecture. SOOOO, my classes are as follows:

3x a week: physics 2, calculus 3, linear algebra

2x a week: intro to computer science, astronomy

1x a week: “Fun with polymers”, Chorale, physics lab, calc recitation, physics recitation, Computer science lab

If we calculate this out, I spend about 21.75 hours (1305 minutes) sitting in class every week. 

My major classes meet:

3x a week: physics 2, calc 3, linear algebra

2x a week: computer science, astronomy

1x a week: chorale

For these ones, I should be probably be spending the college’s recommended three hours studying for. (For clarity’s sake, they say three hours studying what you learned in lecture. So for every lecture, tack on three hours of studying.)

Physics lab takes up a chunk of time to write the lab report and read the lab itself before class, so we’ll say two hours should cover the “studying” for that. I also have a computer science lab - in reality, anyone with a pulse can finish the lab in under an hour outside of class, but for consistency’s sake, let’s treat it like the physics lab and say two hours of outside work plus class. Both meet once a week.

If we whip out our calculators, we’ll find that the college would have me spend a whopping 46 hours (2760 minutes) per week studying. 

There are 168 hours (10,080 minutes) in a week, including weekends. Adding up the time spent in lecture and the time I “should” be studying, we get 67.75 hours (4065 minutes). Subtract that from the time in a week, we get 100.25 hours (6015 minutes) left in the week for everything else.

From there, we can say that that evens out to about 14.3 hours (859.2857 minutes) per day, if we use a seven day week and work an equal amount on weekends.

How long should we say we sleep every night? Personally, I really like sleep, so let’s go with nine hours a night. That leaves us with about 5.3 hours left per day. 5.3 hours to eat, actually get to class, run any errands, socialize, relax, actually fall asleep, shower, and everything else that makes up daily life. It would run out really quickly, trust me. (Just to get to class, it takes me anywhere between 10 to 20 minutes and another 10 - 20 to get back.)

Just to be clear, that total includes weekends. Say goodbye to free weekends.

Although, if you put that much effort into learning, you would have the highest GPA in the history of ever.

tl;dr - Procrastination sucks unless you calculate how much time you should be spending not procrastinating.