Hi everyone! I just joined GC this morning because I needed to get some advice from what seems like an awesome group of people

I am currently pledging with a local in my area, and Im finding that we are getting entirely too much 'homework' and Im feeling very overwhelmed. All of the other pledges are feeling the same way, more than we think we should. We understand that pledging is difficult, and take it seriously, but were talking 9 hours just this week on homework, not counting the scheduled pledge activities. Is this normal? How did all of you cope with this?