Is this normal?

I have noticed that most schools allow the professors to design the class however they would like to. My AP1 class was just like that and I look a semester off from the course because I couldnt take the stress. Looking back, the decision I should've made was withdraw from the class and take it next semester. I'm not saying thats what you should do. But if you think you are not going to get the grade you want, it might be a good idea.

In my AP class their was no essays. Wow thats amazing!

I think I'm going to drop tomorrow. I had my mind made last night that I would just do it and accept whatever grade I got and go ahead and try to apply in Jan. and if I got in, I got in. However, after doing my lab today....3/4 of the day and not ever getting to the slides I needed to study for tomorrow's quiz, I decided it's not worth it. I feel sick. Literally, I feel sick and my neck is a mess. This seems to just be a cycle for each chapter.

I emailed my instructor and told her. I'm waiting back to hear if I can go ahead and work through the chapters and reviews to see if they will be good for next semester. They are straight out of the book. I'm just going to take my time and really try to understand it so that I can spend next semester doing the work.

I hope I am making the right decision. This is really upsetting to me.

WOW, all I can say is that your instructor has assigned way too much work. My instructors gave us lab homework assignments that amounted to about an hour of homework and we had another hour of work while we were in our 3 hour lab class. For lectures, we had about an hour or 2 per week of papers to turn in. Any write-in questions were brief and to the point. It's not a writing class. We had a ton of reading but I eventually learned better ways to understand the information. You just happened to get an instructor who gives the class way too much busy work. Try to catch your instructor during office hours and have her look over your work to see if you are putting too much into it. If that's how much work she wants, she's being completely unrealistic and I would drop the class and take it with a different instructor. Look at teacher rating sites.

She said the problem is the new book (more pages= more written and more labs). She said she is going to cut off some of the written work for next semester.....but that's not until next semester. It's on online class so everything that is due is already issued. I still think she could go through and cut some of it out or issue an email that says dont do such and such this week but I'm not an instructor so what do I know. She said is struggling to get all the Qs plugged in for the quizzes herself. She said the school said they weren't being hard enough of the students going into nursing but

I tell you I honestly feel like this is way more in depth that it should be. She is the same one I had for last semester and all was well. I am pretty bummed but I already feel a lot better, physically. I just pray this doesn't reflect on how I will do with nursing school.

I can understand the new text but she should be able to tell which items are critical and which are just over work. We have an instructor at our school who likes to assign a couple of short research papers along with all the other A&P homework and classwork. Great instructor. Thankfully I only had him for one term and only for the lab so I didn't write any papers for him. He did allow his students to research what interested them and he also cut back on the lab work if he saw it was taking too long. He would do it right on the spot.

I'm curious.. how do you do labs online?

I'm sorry you're having such a hard time. I'm taking four classes this semester and I've been neglecting my one online class (lifespan) because the in person classes are getting so time consuming. I know how you feel!

It sounds like this class has way too much work.. maybe they want to make online science harder to make sure you absorb it?

AP1s labs were matching and short answers. They were usually a couple of pages and then there would be lists of structures we had to memorize using a lab CD with dissected cadavers, we had lab quizzes and exams that were labeling and the cadaver pictures were straight from the CD. We also had to test from the CD on animations (which were physiology animations) and on structures just as part of our lab assignment. There were usually several to be turned in with the lab assignment.

AP2 was more fill in the blank but instead of matching, it's more reading physiology sentences and inserting the correct term in blanks (as apposed to inserting a letter from a list), some listing of things, and lists of structures to learn from two different CDs and an atlas. There were also some slides and animations but I never really got to them (and that was part of why I did go ahead and drop today). I liked the old CD we used better, just the way it was laid out and the testing functions. That really helped me to learn structures the best. The instructor is hoping to go back to that CD next semester.