How many hours per week did you study at university?

[Makhaira]

For the people saying they did ~70 hours a week, what sort of line of work are you in now and is it paying off?

Project Management now from an Electronic Engineering degree. Has it paid off? In short "yes". Not into discussing details of my life online, but if it's a genuine interest you have in terms of understanding what benefits can be had from a good degree in a good subject, rather than a 2:2 in something mediocre, happy to chat via Trust.

 

[MBennett]

I started uni doing Aerospace engineering and that was full on - 9-5 everyday and they heavily encouraged you to take up a language class in your lunch hour so you were looking at 40 hours of contact time and then you had to find maybe another 20/30hrs to study on your own!!

Needless to say this was very ott and I didn't enjoy it much so I switched to physics which was a much more acceptable 30 hours a week contact time and ~10/15hrs self study which fitted in with my rowing much better (early mornings and weekends).

Having said that, people could do less than that by cheating and buying all the past exam papers and basically learning the questions that were going to come up like a parrot as is the nature of mathematical subjects and a modular exam style (something that really annoys me - but hey I bet I know more than them now!)

 

[Warbie]

Not enough - hence failing miserably. I did manage to do my 3rd year twice without attending a single lecture or tutorial, though, which deserves some kind of award in laziness!