You know the term “Full-Time Student”? My suggestion is that you take that seriously.
This week, I went to a lunchtime workshop that featured a representative from the Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center (PLTC), which is a center for tutoring and educational enrichment in general here at Wellesley.
Everything was going great until she informed us that we should be studying forty to sixty hours a week. As my blood pressure rose, I thought Sixty hours! That’s more than a lot of people work! The representative went on to say that we really should be thinking of school like a full-time job, and putting in the necessary hours each day.
Even before our little wake-up call, my friends and I did study a lot. We study in the daytime. We study at night. We study so late at night that it’s technically daytime. We study alone, together, and in most of the buildings on campus. In sort, we’re regular Sam-I-Ams when it comes to schoolwork.
That isn’t the case for some of my hometown friends that went to different schools. I’m learning to deal with that and appreciate the value of the hard work that we do here.
And when I check “Student” box in the “Occupation” section of paperwork, I’ll know that I’m working for my title.
One of my girlies working hard.