Those in university

[Anonymous No.19021322]

How do you find time to read?

It hasn't even been 3 days since university started and I'm already crippled by due dates and assignments.

[Anonymous No.19021337]

STEM?

[Anonymous No.19021339]

just dropout

[Anonymous No.19021350]

>>19021322
Your not supposed to do all the reading assuming your doing English just look through the reading lists and choose the ones you want to read and read those then just write about those in your assignments and skip the classes for all the books you skipped

[Anonymous No.19021352]

>>19021337
I'm in humanities (classics, if you care) but since I'm first year I'm stuck doing a bunch of mandatory courses

[Anonymous No.19021353]

I don't give a fuck about uni

[Anonymous No.19021357]

>>19021322
it's online for me so i usually have alot of free time. otherwise i just read on my commutes.

[Anonymous No.19021360]

>>19021353
baste

[Anonymous No.19021361]

>>19021322
The trick is time-theft: pretend to work, and read instead. Got to my PhD like that

[Anonymous No.19021369]

>>19021352
Well then you are doing reading whats the problem?

[Anonymous No.19021370]

Dropped out 5 years ago and still have nightmares of going to an exam without even knowing the subject lol. Humans weren't meant to go to school for 18 years straight

[Anonymous No.19021381]

>>19021322
Anon, my experience was similar to yours. I couldn't find time to enjoy reading until after grad school. Make the most out of your time between semesters.

[Anonymous No.19021388]

>>19021370
Another nightmare I have is going to school without knowing the location of my classes so I just wander around a giant empty building with the feeling of inevitable failure

[Anonymous No.19021391]

>>19021369
Not the reading I want to do

[Anonymous No.19021395]

>>19021322
I force it. I have to read probably almost as much as a normal law student (I study law and philosophy) as well as a lot of philosophy, and I still find some time to read some literary fiction or poetry at least every other day. I try to manage fifty pages of uni unrelated reading but that doesn't go often enough. When I have time to read I generally go through one entire book. This has forced me to read shorter stories in general (max 200 pages), poetry and shortstory collections. I miss reading longer works but I don't have the time for that especially.
During exams season or when writing papers I have a lot less time to read compared to normal classes but I still read at least a little. Maybe thirty pages a day, or twenty. You really just have to force it. Think at every moment: I should read something now.
What's been bothering me most is that I don't find any time to write. I used to write a lot before uni and still a lot before uni got especially, but now especially I don't write at all anymore.
I don't have friends or a gf though so if you have both or either then you won't have time to read.

[Anonymous No.19021416]

I read in the morning, then I do the assignments during the day before going to class at night. Then I go to sleep. Sometimes I shitpost here if I don't feel like doing anything.

[Anonymous No.19021445]

Neither universities nor corporations want you to read. Shocking in the case of Universities, I know. But they don’t. They’ve taken a cue from the corporations and would have you be a student, effectively doing the work for the university of not spending money on it, 24/7 if they could. You speak English. You have the internet. It’s really mind boggling to me that you guys STILL don’t seem to understand what you’re buying. But then again, I guess I didn’t at your age either…

[Anonymous No.19021692]

>>19021391
Classics are what you should want to be reading. If you are complaining that you don't have time to read YA/fantasy/scifi/pulp genre schlock, you are on the wrong board. If you really cared about literature you would do what the rest of us did in college: STEM degree and read for personal edification on the side.

[Anonymous No.19022187]

>>19021692
>STEM degree and read for personal edification on the side
Cringe

[Anonymous No.19022232]

You only study for 5 days a week and take weekend off.
If you need to do more than that then the course isn't for you. University just isn't meant for everybody.

I study the very first day of each semester so that i never have to crunch of rush for exams.

[Anonymous No.19022278]

>>19021322
>How do you find time to read?
I skip class. Honestly feel free to call me a dumbass, but I gain fucking nothing from listening to a guy talking for 90 minutes straight, I just lose focus. I can study 3-4 hours straight, but listening? Half an hour tops.
My uni mostly doesn't care about attendance, so I just read all the required readings, do all the assignments, and go to the exams. That saves me hundreds of hours that would otherwise be wasted every semester.

[Anonymous No.19022351]

>>19021322
Assignments have a way of getting done somehow. So I would read in the morning about 2 hrs a day six days a week until it became unsustainable. The point of unsustainability depends on the term. If you only manage for a couple of months, so be it.

If it's the beginning of undergrad be easy on yourself... Make sure you don't totally fuck up your coursework, meet people while it is still super easy.

[Anonymous No.19022364]

>>19021322
>>19021322 (OP)
Assignments have a way of getting done somehow. So I would read in the morning about 2 hrs a day six days a week until it became unsustainable. The point of unsustainability depends on the term. If I could only manage for a couple of months, so be it. Usually I would aim to keep this up until finals.

If it's the beginning of undergrad be easy on yourself... Make sure you don't totally fuck up your coursework, meet people while it is still super easy.

[Anonymous No.19022373]

>>19021322
Assignments have a way of getting done somehow. So I would read in the morning about 2 hrs a day six days a week until it became unsustainable. The point of unsustainability depends on the term. If I could only manage for a couple of months, so be it. Usually I would aim to keep this up until finals.

If it's the beginning of undergrad be easy on yourself... Make sure you don't totally fuck up your coursework, meet people while it is still super easy.

[Anonymous No.19022407]

>>19021322
>he gives a shit about the assignments

[Anonymous No.19022419]

>>19021370
>>19021388
Had those dreams for 5 years.
Now that I’m out I have dreams about finding new sections of my house

[Anonymous No.19022432]

>>19021322
How do you find time to browse /lit/?

[Anonymous No.19022519]

>>19022187
You are a minority on this board

[Anonymous No.19022588]

>>19021692
>thinking classics is just reading the classics
I wish the program just consisted of reading Homer and studying Latin all day, but it's much different than that—i.e. reading about Homer in a Greek history class, or examining the role of women in X.

[Anonymous No.19022727]

>>19021352
I'm in classics too and I always read once I go to bed, which is when I'm done with mandatory readings, studying and homeworks. That's usually around 2 a.m.

[Anonymous No.19022741]

>>19021692
>STEM degree and read for personal edification on the side.
what percentage of /lit/ is doing this / has done this? there's no way we chads are a majority on this board

[Anonymous No.19022750]

>>19022519
Speak for yourself.

[Anonymous No.19022755]

>>19021322
Drop out.

[Anonymous No.19022815]

>>19021322
philosophy,literature or even high culture is not meant for low iq plebeians like u .Plz don't consider this as an insult but u've been filtered unironically for better or worse.

[Anonymous No.19023279]

>>19021322
>It hasn't even been 3 days since university started
?
Mine starts in a week. How was freshers

[Anonymous No.19023696]

bump

[Anonymous No.19024468]

>>19021322
>How do you find time to read?

Bro what kind of degree are you in? All I do is read, and I read whatever the fuck I want. Whatever assigned work I have I just make it about the shit I'm reading.

[Anonymous No.19024553]

>>19021322
your time management is just not good.
i socialized, got involved in clubs and exercised, all the while keeping up with schoolwork

[Anonymous No.19024558]

Stop playing video games faggot

[Anonymous No.19024562]

>>19022741
I did. Stats major math minor

[Anonymous No.19024583]

>>19022519
If you think the majority did so, given the widespread derision that STEM receives here, then you are actually delusional

[Anonymous No.19024587]

>>19021391
What do they have you reading right now anon?

[Anonymous No.19025720]

>>19022588

[Anonymous No.19025729]

>>19021395
you can be my friend add me on discord

[Anonymous No.19025782]

>>19022741
i've only read 2/3 of the meme trilogy so i'm not supposed to post on this board
however.... math major, now doing computational chemistry in academia. feels great to be well-paid and well-read
t. world's biggest pseud

[Anonymous No.19026000]

You should have have plenty of free time for reading.

[Anonymous No.19026191]

>>19021322
I did my undergrad in electrical eng, 4.0 gpa, thought that was real good. I got a technical job in a lab, the boys were doing their PhDs and working full time, working pretty well 100+ hours a week, and they don't complain, they enjoy it. They're fucking driven.

You're only limited by your own horizons.

[Anonymous No.19026199]

>3rd year of STEM
>studying computer engineering
>have more free time than ever
just have no social life lol

[Anonymous No.19026208]

>>19024558
/thread

[Anonymous No.19026228]

>>19026191
do you think there's an IQ boundary to that?

[Anonymous No.19026335]

>>19021322
how many credits do you have?

I got 14 and I have a buttload of free time.

[Anonymous No.19026342]

>>19021370
I graduated 4 years ago and still experience that nightmare regularly. I don't handle pressure well so for most of my assignments I skimmed the cliffnotes/summary and went from there. For a long time I was terrified of doing it because teachers always said they knew when you hadn't done the reading, but I eventually discovered they must've just been providing a plot summary rather than an analysis. I got As in most of my classes and my professors often told me I was a stand out student. I'm not even intelligent, just good at giving people what they want

[Anonymous No.19026391]

>>19021692
Based, truly the way to enlightenment. I very much doubt many people here could do a delta-epsilon proof, though.

[Anonymous No.19026395]

>>19026391
Delta/epsilon proofs are trivial

[Anonymous No.19026401]

>>19026191
>4.0 gpa
>electrical eng
larp

[DR. GONZO !!JUfMKYBLVi9 No.19026408]

>>19026401
Hey, now, Pynchon did that.
>Tom Pynchon was quiet and neat and did his homework faithfully. He went to Mass and confessed, though to what would be a mystery. He got $25 a week spending money and managed it perfectly, did not cut class and always got grades in the high 90s. His only disappointment was not to have been pledged to a fraternity. . . .

[Anonymous No.19026416]

>>19021352
Explain how you don't have time to read even though you're allegedly studying humanities?

[Anonymous No.19026489]

>>19021692
>STEM degree and read for personal edification on the side.
Warning: only do this if you're 100% okay with only ever having a hobbyist-level understanding of the humanities. If you want a higher level understanding you're going to have to put in the work and study at the post-graduate level.

[Anonymous No.19026495]

>>19026489
t retard justifying going into debt to be spoon-fed

[Anonymous No.19026519]

>>19026495
t. hobbyist

[Anonymous No.19026525]

>>19021391
Why did you choose classics if you dont want to read the fucking books?

[Anonymous No.19026538]

>>19026519
t. retard spending money on the humanities

[Anonymous No.19026556]

>>19026538
see >>19026519

[Anonymous No.19026647]

>>19021370
>>19026342
I finished my PhD several years ago and I still have nightmares where I completely forgot to do some mindless task or assignment that takes a month to complete, or else has a series of milestones you have to complete in the right order, like getting one form into one office so they can get back to you with another form to take further up the chain and etc., or getting all five recommenders together weeks ahead of time and politely forcing them to actually write your letters on schedule.

The "vibe" of the nightmare is always that the task is still theoretically possible, either just before the due date or just after it, but it's functionally impossible because of the choppy nature of the task and the awkwardness of admitting to five professors that you forgot until the last minute and now you need them to write you a letter while they're on vacation, and so on. It's never about the paper itself, it's always about explaining the situation to some office so I can twist their arm to rush things so the other office will still be open when I rush over there.. etc.

When I wake up I'm always so relieved.

[Anonymous No.19026757]

>>19026647
I quit academia and became (after adventures) a post man.

Best decision ever.

[Anonymous No.19027039]

I have started now as a mid twenties guy in STEM and I do my reading in the period breaks which are from 10 to 20 minutes.
I tried socialising but this kid told me he was high 8 times within a 5 minute window so what I lack in social skills I gain in being a pseudo philosophy enthusiast.
Also girls don’t talk to me.

[Anonymous No.19027048]

>>19021322
By being a lazy bum and only read part of the texts I should.

[Anonymous No.19027053]

>>19026757
What's life like as a postman? Can you fuck off a lot or do you have to have to bust your ass?

[Anonymous No.19027063]

>>19021322
Take my advice and study HARD for your courses, great grades will make the rest of your life easier.

[Anonymous No.19027107]

>>19027053
I used to be a post guy in Austria and it was ok, its a lot but you are left alone to do your thing by yourself, you dont have a boss or coworkers nagging you.
On the other hand the pay is abysmal, you can only live paycheck to paycheck woth that.

[Anonymous No.19027458]

>>19021391
Why are you paying thousands of dollars to read things you don’t want to read?

[Anonymous No.19027465]

I dislike uni but I will miss all of my professors. They are so kind and nice. I feel like a child when they are present. Especially my russian teacher, you can tell by the way she treats us all that she has had children not long ago

[Anonymous No.19027483]

>>19022588
The context is important to actually understand and be knowledgable about these topics, which is why university takes you along that path. If you wanted to just read the source material and feel like you understood it instead of actually understanding it, you should drop out and save yourself the money.

[Anonymous No.19027845]

>>19021322
I don’t, I’m an architecture major, I barely find time to sleep

[Anonymous No.19027849]

the fuck are you talking about? uni was the time I had the most time to myself. wait till you start working full time if you think that's bad

[Anonymous No.19027852]

>>19021322
I simply don't read. LOL
t. Law

[Anonymous No.19027960]

>>19021322
It's not really possible while maintaining good grades unless you sacrifice literally else from your free time. Chances are you'll wang to spend your free time on something less mentally demanding.

[Anonymous No.19027968]

>>19027960
>wang
*want

[Anonymous No.19027976]

>>19027852
Lawfags do more reading than anybody else.

[Anonymous No.19027981]

>>19026647
i'm only in undergrad but get dreams like this

[Anonymous No.19027986]

>>19027960
>literally else
*literally everything else

[Anonymous No.19028039]

Are you in your first year? I find that stuff gets more and more chill as you get better and more used to studying (even though the course load and other responsibillities get heavier and heavier). My only suggestion is 1) keep your physical and mental health in as good condition you can. go outside and never ever sacrifice sleep unless you are literally 1 day before a deadline.

To me "time" was never **really the scarce resource, more like mental energy. Like I will come home at 5 and then eat, and then work on stuff til 10pm, and then even tho I have 1hr of free time, I would always spend it on useless shit like 4chan because reading serious material seemed like too mentally exhausting. However, this problem mostly went away on its own. Just make sure you're not tired for no good reason, ie make sure you eat sleep and exercise.

[Anonymous No.19028114]

>>19021370
>>19026647
>>19027960
Holy shit. Is college even worth it?
Why don't just take a blue collar job and spend the rest of your time as you want it?

[Anonymous No.19028176]

I was suspended from uni because of a false sexual harassment allegation from this crazy Indian bitch. I didn't so much as touch her, she got close to me and couldn't cope after I rejected her. If you anons ever see a pajeeta in your vicinity, RUN FOR THE HILLS

[Anonymous No.19028294]

>>19028114
Not worth it if you're American. Even if you spend 7-8 years to become a doctor, lawyer or a specialized engineer or some shit, you will still be working 60 hours a week at that "good" job of yours.

[Anonymous No.19028319]

>>19024558
They hated him because he told the truth.

[Anonymous No.19028322]

>>19021322
I finished my MA recently

I’ll go back and do nursing.

I didn’t get to read what I wanted until class was over. It’s been very comfy to read whatever I want now :)

[Anonymous No.19028355]

>>19027852
Undergrad law degrees.

[Anonymous No.19028591]

>>19021322
I bet oyu find enough time to jack off you faggot

[Anonymous No.19029897]

>>19021322
If you are like me and your brain ha sbeen destroyed by social media, its better to read for 20 mins at a time and then do something else

[Anonymous No.19029909]

>>19021322
my first year of uni had less work than high school, which either means my (public) high school was really intense or my uni wasn’t at all. my second year had even less work.

[Anonymous No.19030243]

>>19021322
When you read, take notes on whatever seems important. Read closely only whatever is useful for you. Also print out all your readings and write notes by hand. You'll get more efficient quickly.

[Anonymous No.19030361]

Stop putting in so much effort at school lol
You get diminishing returns

[afatoldman No.19030509]

>>19021322
I didn't read much for pleasure in college, excepting summers.

[DR. GONZO !!JUfMKYBLVi9 No.19031695]

>>19021322
>How do you find time to read?
You don’t. My professor straight up told me to drop every book I was reading to focus on the syllabus. Huge blackpill for me so I left.

[Anonymous No.19031712]

>>19021337
How any fellow STEM anons put reading in their schedule?