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It's so frustrating how professors are giving so much more work just because everything is online.
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It’s coming to a point where I'm just sitting in my room crying in frustration. I know everything is online discuss what ever it is you wish to discuss!
but some of us still has to go to work while attending classes. In one month of school, I already did 2
12-pages research paper, 5 tests and a couple essays. 4.5k 33
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Some of these professors really be doing to much. I'm so exhausted. If everybody would just follow the
motherfucking covid guidelines to keep themselves and everybody else safe from covid, we wouldn't
be in this fucking situation
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Edit: I wasn’t gunna go this far or this deep but like in Asian countries, wearing masks is the norm for
them but in America when it is suddenly enforced to have everybody to wear masks, it’s taking away
their freedom. If anything, them not wearing masks is taking away ALL Americans’ freedom. Because
they refuse to wear masks and to practice social distancing, there are so many restrictions now. Things
I was once able to do last year, I can't do this year. It’s beyond frustrating
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ty swimnglimmer 7 months ago
i was just complaining about this...i can't believe the amount of busy work (discussion board
posts) and online quizzes we have to do. I'm taking 4 classes and this week alone I have a huge
exam, another timed writing exam based on 4 books, a bibliography, 3 quizzes in 3 different 4. Be Respectful ¥
classes, and a DB paragraph and response to a student. its SOOOO RIDICULOUS.
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I can't believe the amount of student who actually prefers to have online classes. oR DENSON:
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At this point, all these extra assignments weighs just as much as exams on my final grade.. Suid ROUg)on
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Agreed. It doesn’t help that some professors are hella lazy this semester (ex. not recording.
Assigning work last minute, etc).
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EXACTLY.. they're so lazy but yet they give us so much shit to do. I'm so over it man.. SO OVER IT u/3ggs95
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Theprofessionalist 7 months ago
Some of the professors I got are not even recording the lectures because "They want us to show
up for the 3 hour lectures" like bruh, the least ya can do is record the lectures for us! KBCC
student here!
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People like that are so frustrating. Some people don't have the best wifi connection and they
rely on the recordings to catch up on lessons
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I miss going to school not only to see the campus and buildings or to see my friends again, but
because it's just less stress and work. Yes, we're home for classes, but as you said, not all of us TOP POSTS SEPTEMBER 28TH 2020
have the luxury of staying home and not working. For a 100 class that I have, every other week we
have to turn in a 1-page annotation, 3 page response, and take a quiz for readings that are 60
pages long.
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< , CVPR434 7 months ago
Have you expressed this to your professor? I'm in the same boat as you, crying from being so
overwhelmed, and I just said “fuck it” and sent my professor and email telling him how much
stress and anxiety his workload was causing me. I mentioned that the amount of work is making
me not even learn or digest the material because I'm just having to plow through all the work so
fast. After being very open and honest, he actually pulled back a little bit and lightened the
workload. So, maybe try that. If your professor isn’t responsive to that, then you can reach out to
the department chair.
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I know this all really sucks, but just know that you're not in this alone. Hang in there.
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Theprofessionalist 7 months ago
Agreed, KBCC student here. I feel like all the blackboard discussion board posts are like... 30
pages by now of an essay I could've done, thats not even including the actual assignments I'm
supposed to do. Stay strong, you'll need it. I can only imagine the 4 year college workloads since
I'm graduating in spring 2021. Dear god.
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G annatheactivist 7 months ago
I totally get where ur coming from. Feel like professors think because it’s online, it’s suddenly too
easy + we have more time, (even tho neither is the case) so they try to balance that out by
assigning more work. This pandemic is hard on everyone, not to mention students like me who
also have a job, and it’s just ridiculous the work load they place on us.
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Wachvris 7 months ago
Yeah, it’s like they want us to fail. So fucking annoying
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You're blaming the wrong people. The people in charge are power tripping and would still be
imposing lockdowns regardless if "more people wore masks" at the start or not. It wasn't justified
for them to extend things this long. Check out r/LockdownSkepticism and r/CoronavirusCirclejerk
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Me Posted by u/[deleted] 7 months ago =]
63 Online classes = more work
About Community
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r/CUNY
It's so frustrating how professors are giving so much more work just because everything is online.
An online Meet-up for CUNY students to
It’s coming to a point where I'm just sitting in my room crying in frustration. I know everything is online discuss what ever it is you wish to discuss!
but some of us still has to go to work while attending classes. In one month of school, I already did 2
12-pages research paper, 5 tests and a couple essays. 4.5k 33
Members Online
Some of these professors really be doing to much. I'm so exhausted. If everybody would just follow the
motherfucking covid guidelines to keep themselves and everybody else safe from covid, we wouldn't
be in this fucking situation
& Created May 16, 2011
Edit: I wasn’t gunna go this far or this deep but like in Asian countries, wearing masks is the norm for
them but in America when it is suddenly enforced to have everybody to wear masks, it’s taking away
their freedom. If anything, them not wearing masks is taking away ALL Americans’ freedom. Because
they refuse to wear masks and to practice social distancing, there are so many restrictions now. Things
I was once able to do last year, I can't do this year. It’s beyond frustrating
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ty swimnglimmer 7 months ago
i was just complaining about this...i can't believe the amount of busy work (discussion board
posts) and online quizzes we have to do. I'm taking 4 classes and this week alone I have a huge
exam, another timed writing exam based on 4 books, a bibliography, 3 quizzes in 3 different 4. Be Respectful ¥
classes, and a DB paragraph and response to a student. its SOOOO RIDICULOUS.
5. Hate speech is not permitted here. ¥
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[deleted] 7 months ago
I can't believe the amount of student who actually prefers to have online classes. oR DENSON:
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At this point, all these extra assignments weighs just as much as exams on my final grade.. Suid ROUg)on
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ImpressivePackage1 7 months ago information of anybody without their
Gy explicit permission.
Agreed. It doesn’t help that some professors are hella lazy this semester (ex. not recording.
Assigning work last minute, etc).
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rag LePho72 7 months ago
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The least they could do is to do recordings BUT NOPE
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[deleted] 7 months ago u/TheMentalist95
EXACTLY.. they're so lazy but yet they give us so much shit to do. I'm so over it man.. SO OVER IT u/3ggs95
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Theprofessionalist 7 months ago
Some of the professors I got are not even recording the lectures because "They want us to show
up for the 3 hour lectures" like bruh, the least ya can do is record the lectures for us! KBCC
student here!
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[deleted] 7 months ago
People like that are so frustrating. Some people don't have the best wifi connection and they
rely on the recordings to catch up on lessons
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en Miserable_Departure 7 months ago
I miss going to school not only to see the campus and buildings or to see my friends again, but
because it's just less stress and work. Yes, we're home for classes, but as you said, not all of us TOP POSTS SEPTEMBER 28TH 2020
have the luxury of staying home and not working. For a 100 class that I have, every other week we
have to turn in a 1-page annotation, 3 page response, and take a quiz for readings that are 60
pages long.
TOP POSTS OF SEPTEMBER, 2020
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< , CVPR434 7 months ago
Have you expressed this to your professor? I'm in the same boat as you, crying from being so
overwhelmed, and I just said “fuck it” and sent my professor and email telling him how much
stress and anxiety his workload was causing me. I mentioned that the amount of work is making
me not even learn or digest the material because I'm just having to plow through all the work so
fast. After being very open and honest, he actually pulled back a little bit and lightened the
workload. So, maybe try that. If your professor isn’t responsive to that, then you can reach out to
the department chair.
TOP POSTS 2020
I know this all really sucks, but just know that you're not in this alone. Hang in there.
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Theprofessionalist 7 months ago
Agreed, KBCC student here. I feel like all the blackboard discussion board posts are like... 30
pages by now of an essay I could've done, thats not even including the actual assignments I'm
supposed to do. Stay strong, you'll need it. I can only imagine the 4 year college workloads since
I'm graduating in spring 2021. Dear god.
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G annatheactivist 7 months ago
I totally get where ur coming from. Feel like professors think because it’s online, it’s suddenly too
easy + we have more time, (even tho neither is the case) so they try to balance that out by
assigning more work. This pandemic is hard on everyone, not to mention students like me who
also have a job, and it’s just ridiculous the work load they place on us.
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Wachvris 7 months ago
Yeah, it’s like they want us to fail. So fucking annoying
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[deleted] 7 months ago
You're blaming the wrong people. The people in charge are power tripping and would still be
imposing lockdowns regardless if "more people wore masks" at the start or not. It wasn't justified
for them to extend things this long. Check out r/LockdownSkepticism and r/CoronavirusCirclejerk
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"Online classes = more work"
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Posted on September 28, 2020, this Reddit thread featured a discussion among City University of New York (CUNY) students about how instructors have disproportionately compensated for the limitations of distance learning by increasing the rigor and volume of their assigned coursework during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/CUNY/comments/j1pow8/online_classes_more_work/
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I think it’s come across all our minds that in-person just isn’t possible within the CUNY ecosystem. We are too crowded, too few teachers and too little space. It’s understandable in a public university. Not only that, but you are unable to hire enough cleaning staff to keep surfaces disinfected. We get these issues; but these are things that should be transparent to every student, faculty and staff members. We’re tired of staying in the dark.
Anonymous. “‘Online Classes = More Work’”. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/CUNY/comments/j1pow8/online_classes_more_work/, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1835