Everything at my campus (UF St Pete) is too strict. It's like they are afraid that the Gainesville profs won't respect them. We are graded harder with a different standard than in Gainesville for projects. G'ville students are graded by TA's. Most of our preceptors are really bitchy. They filled academic dishonesty charges on two lab groups who worked together on a stupid assignment. No one said that dividing up work was cheating. Gainesville decided that they can stay in school. I'm sure the preceptors at St Pete were disappointed.
When they assign people to groups, they assume that they can work together during times we're not in class. In Gainesville, it's feasible. On a distance campus, people in the same group may live 3 hours from each other. Yet, we have the same deadlines. We get our assignments later than in Gainesville, because the lectures are delayed, but we don't get an extra 2 hours to turn them in.
Some students at my campus have lab scheduled on the same day as another class. I have it on Tuesday, so I have to drive 4 days a week. People that live near campus all seemed to get the 3 day week. They say it's random, but this happens each semester to all the students with a long commute.
I hate taking 8 classes at once. They all have assignments, readings, quizzes, etc. They are deliberatly subjecting us to as much stress as possible to see if we crack. Last night, I fell asleep at 7:30pm from pure exhaustion. I'm up late tonight, because I have a group assignment due.
If I had it to do over, I would either go to a different school or just move closer to campus and tell my husband too bad, he can live alone.