To be completely honest, I can’t describe very precisely what does it mean for ENS students to be “busy”, because I didn’t ask students for their time schedule. I’m not paid by the state, but I do remember having 25 hours of class a week in master’s degree, plus I remember hearing there was 3⁄4 hours of work for each two hours of class. However, there is a big difference between my case and someone who has a contract with the state.
This said, as a general impression, I’m fairly confident that the average student at ENS is busier than in an Ivy league college. A visiting researcher once told this to me.
Also, students are usually freer during a full-time, 35h/week internship, and I also know that ENS is fairly incompatible with having a job on the side. Finally, some students have classes from 7 to 9 pm.
When asked about their organizational skills, a member of the administration told me they were “very well organized”, so it didn’t seem like the bottleneck.
That’s the best I can tell so far, but I’ll try looking into this in more detail.
I forgot to mention it, but we did try reading during the session once or twice (we had already mainly started the projects, then). This is a very good point ! I translated the text myself with the help of a translation software, since EA France is not finished yet with the more carefully done translations. We plan on doing this more systematically this year.
About UGAP, my prediction is mainly the result of Joris himself telling me that it didn’t seem that useful, having heard my troubles. I might have over-deferred here, and I’d be happy to discuss ^^
Hello Jessica, thanks for your comment.
To be completely honest, I can’t describe very precisely what does it mean for ENS students to be “busy”, because I didn’t ask students for their time schedule.
I’m not paid by the state, but I do remember having 25 hours of class a week in master’s degree, plus I remember hearing there was 3⁄4 hours of work for each two hours of class. However, there is a big difference between my case and someone who has a contract with the state.
This said, as a general impression, I’m fairly confident that the average student at ENS is busier than in an Ivy league college. A visiting researcher once told this to me.
Also, students are usually freer during a full-time, 35h/week internship, and I also know that ENS is fairly incompatible with having a job on the side. Finally, some students have classes from 7 to 9 pm.
When asked about their organizational skills, a member of the administration told me they were “very well organized”, so it didn’t seem like the bottleneck.
That’s the best I can tell so far, but I’ll try looking into this in more detail.
I forgot to mention it, but we did try reading during the session once or twice (we had already mainly started the projects, then). This is a very good point ! I translated the text myself with the help of a translation software, since EA France is not finished yet with the more carefully done translations. We plan on doing this more systematically this year.
About UGAP, my prediction is mainly the result of Joris himself telling me that it didn’t seem that useful, having heard my troubles. I might have over-deferred here, and I’d be happy to discuss ^^