Yeah, I bet the response to “I really need a light schedule for finals week” would be “The tests are during the same blocks of time as the lectures. Weren’t you studying and learning the material during the semester?”
I worked work-study jobs in college and I didn’t get a light schedule during finals weeks.
I did as well and I currently work now employing student workers. Usually for finals week, we let them set their own schedule. They are paid hourly, so if they want to work 0 hours or 20 hours we let them. Sometimes they like to work giant days when their finals are done and sometimes they like to space out a couple of hours here and there during the week.
Finals are not during the same blocks of time as the courses for obvious reasons (You go to class three times a week for an hour, you aren’t taking the same final three times or spreading it out over three sessions. Typically they are in a single two hour block scheduled according to when they meet, but not at the same time.) Your finals schedule is typically completely different than your weekly course schedule - a problem that private employers hate.
I don’t know. In this day and age, a typical office work environment is less about “be at your desk on time between these hours”. Heck, half of the jobs I’ve worked, I was pretty sure they forgot they hired me a few days after I started.
It wasn’t just showing up on time (which is still important in a lot of jobs). You may be able to do well at your job even if you show up late ( or more likely, the concept isn’t relevant ) or miss days - but I don’t think there’s any job that you’ll do well at if you only do part of the work.
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I’m curious how many year it takes their students to earn a 4-year degree. (Assuming the degree is not in fruitcake baking or fruitcake sales.)
I had a job in college - a stupid retail job that had a myriad of issues…but one was that they scheduled me during my finals. I had already given notice, so I just quit early. (This was the same place that after I gave notice, refused to acknowledge that I was leaving and just scheduled me.)
Our son actually asked if they needed him to stay an extra day after finishing exams, since he normally works that day. They said.He didn’t need to, but I’m guessing it made a positive impression on his supervisor that he asked and was willing to stay on campus an extra day if they needed him to.
Does anyone know how the money earned from vocational schools/colleges (e.g. auto repair, cooking, baking, etc) are used? I can see private school money going directly back to offset costs, but what about community colleges that are part of the state university system? Does the money go directly to the college or does it go back into the general university or state fund?
I just remembered, I always heard that the money received from the bakery and dinners served at the colleges went directly back into that departments funds to offset the cost of supplies. Whether that’s true or not, I’m not sure.
In Minnesota, the money that the community college collects - say the money the cosmetology department collects from students giving haircuts and doing manicures - goes back into the school. But I suspect that its up to the state on how that is handled in the case of public colleges and up to the private institution in the case of private ones.