The most I've ever taken at a time was 28, and I almost died. Luckily it was for but one quarter. Generally I'm down at 17-18.
Jesus. I took 22 hours once, and the only reason I made it was that I was in the dorm, without a car, on a campus literally in the middle of no where. Seriously, it was 5 miles to the nearest gas station, the nearest grocery was 20 miles and the nearest "city" was about 50. The only thing I did other than schoolwork was starcraft.
That courseload was utter hell. I worked from dawn until dusk, just about. Sometimes later.
Wake up at 5:30, get ready for school. Rapidly finish any unfinished coursework for the day. Be at school by 7:00 for Jazz Band or Electronics, depending on the day of the week. (Electronics is 5 days per week, but I crammed it into three.) Go to Wind Ensemble for an hour, one of my only breaks. 15 minute break. Japanese for an hour. Do Geography/Psychology/Money Management/Western Civ II for two hours-ish, doing whatever random coursework there was. 30 minute lunch break, usually a club meeting like Broadcast, Rocket Club, or Science Olympiad while I was eating. Go to Physics for an hour. Go to Calculus for an hour. Go to XC practice for two hours. Go home. Write oodles of essays. Depending on the day, I'd pass out between 9 PM and 2 AM. Wake up, do it again. For 74 days, with only a slight lightening on the weekend. That was last quarter. There's a reason I'm only doing 15 this time. It's like I was awake for an entire season, and then I made up for it by resting like crazy in the summer.
How are you still 16 Barbar?! I swear you were 16 when I was 16.
I think you must've had my age wrong. I'll be seventeen in November. I joined up here when I was 14, I think. Only been going up once per year.