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Sanrith Descartes Sanrith Descartes what was your time commitment like when you were doing the MBA at Permian Basin?

Interested in how much time the classes and the homework/projects took
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
Its the accelerated class, so each full class is 8 weeks instead of 17. So part-time is one class ever 8 weeks and full time is 2 classes.

Time wise it wasn't bad, with the caveat it depends on your background. Also each class was a bit different. For example, the finance classes were very little time as no real homework or projects, just understanding the material.

The research class is probably the biggest timesink, lots of time spend reading and writing a research paper (albeit they make it a group project).

Marketing had a good chunk of time involved as did the Ops class.

Overall, depending your background, I would plan to spend 3-4 hours a week per class plus time if the professor actually holds a class via zoom/WebEx. Some did and some just made it straight read and work
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That's not bad at all, I was afraid it would be like 20 hours a week.

I got almost 20 years in marketing, and another 10 years in purchasing, forecasting, negotiating, and ran my own ecom biz for 5 years so I think I have a decent base to start from.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
Its the accelerated class, so each full class is 8 weeks instead of 17. So part-time is one class ever 8 weeks and full time is 2 classes.

Time wise it wasn't bad, with the caveat it depends on your background. Also each class was a bit different. For example, the finance classes were very little time as no real homework or projects, just understanding the material.

The research class is probably the biggest timesink, lots of time spend reading and writing a research paper (albeit they make it a group project).

Marketing had a good chunk of time involved as did the Ops class.

Overall, depending your background, I would plan to spend 3-4 hours a week per class plus time if the professor actually holds a class via zoom/WebEx. Some did and some just made it straight read and work.
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Accelerated class in grad school takes 3-4 hours a week of work? I don’t think I like you anymore.
 
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One of the accelerated classes last semester had an orientation quiz that had a question about how much weekly time I thought was required for the class. The choices were, in hours, 1-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20 and 20+. The correct answer was the one that included infinity. On the quiz and in actual work required.
 
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wormie said:
One of the accelerated classes last semester had an orientation quiz that had a question about how much weekly time I thought was required for the class. The choices were, in hours, 1-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20 and 20+. The correct answer was the one that included infinity. On the quiz and in actual work required.
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absolutely fucking not no way GIF
 
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But why?

Nothing stops you from learning shit without paying stupid ass universities to attend really inefficient classes.
 
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I remember the exact moment when I understood how fully useless university actually is. In my computer science undergrad I was taking discrete mathematics. I was struggling with some part of the homework assignment for some reason and stumbled upon a youtube series on discrete mathematics. It was like 6 hours in total. Made by some nice Indians. I watched that entire series one Saturday morning and grasped what I was trying to.

The next week in class i realized that I just finished the entire semester of coursework in 6 hours. By watching some free youtube videos.

I understand that this would not have been possible before YouTube and stuff yes. But they exist today and did back in 2010 when I took that class.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
If you haven't ever seen it, the Khan Academy free online learning site is amazing. And a great story as well. Rich folks leave rich jobs and start non-profit learning site.
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Yes I also know Khan Academy well lol. It got me through Calc III by being far easier to understand than the trash study material the class gave me.
 
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TJT said:
But why?

Nothing stops you from learning shit without paying stupid ass universities to attend really inefficient classes.
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Being in school you are surrounded by people smarter than you, being at home you are surrounded by a potato.
 
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wormie said:
Being in school you are surrounded by people smarter than you, being at home you are surrounded by a potato.
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I didn't talk to people at university the first time. I wouldn't if I continued to attend.
 
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wormie said:
Being in school you are surrounded by people smarter than you, being at home you are surrounded by a potato.
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Aren't you used to the feeling of being surrounded by people smarter than you?
 
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