Credit Hour

Definition

A unit of academic measurement that bears no relationship to actual hours spent learning, crying, or staring blankly at a textbook. One credit hour equals roughly fifteen hours of lecture and four hundred hours of existential dread.

Example Usage

"Each credit hour costs $800, which means my afternoon nap in Art History 101 ran me about $200."

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