How much free time do you have at uni?

I do History and in the spring term, i had 3 hours.

Not even joking.

I've been told if you do an Engineering degree you should be in your class at least 6 hours a day .
So for me it's not a lot

Still leaves 18 hours to do whatever you like! Take away 5-6 for sleeping and you still have half the day free, most engineers I know tend to get out plenty, do ECs etc. The one at Imperial does get a bit confused when he sees a female though

6 hours seriously? What kind of courses have the least?

Current / past students...
How much free time do you / did you get at university?


I'm off to uni in september, and was wondering about the possibility of doing art classes while I'm there. I really wanted to do Art A-Level but couldn't I would love to do something creative and feel like it might be useful for me later in life to have built up some kind of portfolio. I can do some myself but obviously I need help in terms of technique etc

Is this a realistic goal or will I not have enough time?

Thanks in advance for any help, very much appreciated....

it depends on what course you are doing. some courses have very little contact hours so people doing those kind of courses will have lots of free time to join societies and clubs and pursue other interests as well. personally, I think it depends on how you utilise your time. I do medicine which is quite intensive and find that I have to organise my time carefully so I get the right balance. I usually work every day and up till about 6/7pm so that I can have the evenings off. this is during normal term time not revision time. I think if you really want to do your art course and are committed to both you will find a way to make it work. what course are you doing?

I'm going to be doing International Business with French + extra Spanish modules too.

Thanks for your help.

ahhhh... that sounds like a lot already. Do you think the art course will be quite intensive or something that you can manage as well as your uni work? which uni are you going to? are you excited about uni?

First year Electrical and Electronic Engineering my timetable consisted of 28 hours per week so on average 6 hours a day (rounded up). Add 2-3 hours of my own work that's still 14-15 hours a day to do whatever I wanted. In second semester I had one day off a week (so 7 hours a day) which I used to catch up on work and sleep. Mainly sleep though

I want to do electronic engineering this september and i was just wondering what uni do you go to??

Current / past students...
How much free time do you / did you get at university?


I'm off to uni in september, and was wondering about the possibility of doing art classes while I'm there. I really wanted to do Art A-Level but couldn't I would love to do something creative and feel like it might be useful for me later in life to have built up some kind of portfolio. I can do some myself but obviously I need help in terms of technique etc

Is this a realistic goal or will I not have enough time?

Thanks in advance for any help, very much appreciated....