Only 10 hours is required each week for teaching duties; that includes office hours, tutoring, meeting with the course supervisor, and of course actually teaching. Not factored into those 10 hours is lesson planning. We mathematics GTAs have the luxury of designing our very own lectures, so long as those lectures cover the material in the syllabus and prepare students for the exams. Cool, but it does take time.
As an out-of-state student I'm only enrolled in six credits (two classes), and so I spend six hours each week absorbing lectures. As an undergraduate the saying goes, "For each hour of lecture, you should spend two hours studying." I can tell you right now that graduate school could care less that there are only 24 hours in a day, because for each hour of lecture you should spend 10 hours studying. (At least for Real Analysis, which is destroying my life!)
Dating: What is that?
Running: I spent an entire week indoors, hunched over my books.
Drinking: We are being driven to it.
Cooking: Better order in, there's no time!
Sleeping: Three hours is enough, isn't it?
Despite all of this, there is no other place I would rather be than in graduate school at Montana State University.
:)
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