The pace at INSEAD

Before coming here, I spent a lot of time reading blogs of INSEAD students, just like probably you are doing now.
One of things that I read in all these blogs was the warning about the pace of INSEAD. I remember one blog commenting about the Welcome Week like "Welcome Week is nothing short of a blast".
Well, you now what? This is completely bullshit! Welcome Week is a complete vacation, and even after, at INSEAD, the pace is the one that you choose to follow!
The things that you HAVE TO do, occupy a limited part of your day, say 7 to 8 hours. All the rest is up to you.
I have read also come people claim: "here you have so many things to do, that you get lost... it is impossibile to follow everything". Come on, guys.... for sure that is is impossibile to follow everything, but who told you that you had to??
It is as though you would feel the need of following all the events of your own city. And then you start complaining about your city mayor because there are so many events every night, that you are not able to follow all of them. And you have to learn to prioritize!
For sure at INSEAD you need to prioritize, but no more here than in most other situations of your life.
Now, here there only 2 things that you have to do:
1) Class attendance, that will take you on average 4-5 hours a day
2) Group work, that varies much on the periods, but does not go more than 2-3 hours a day

That's all. Now you could say, and studying?
Yes, you also need to study, but believe me: for INSEAD gradind policy, studying is more for your own convenience that for passing the exams. You can choose what to study, which exams you like and you wanna focus on and you can dedicate much time on that. But if you do not like an exam, nobody force you to study, and even so, it is veeery unlikely that you will fail an exam.
I also read blogs speaking about "sleep deprivation". Actually, ever our Dean, in the welcome speech told us: "Here you will have so many things to do, that you would be better reducing yor hours of sleep to take full advantage of it". So should we be told by our Dean how many hours to sleep??
From what I see, here we can have the full possibility of taking full advantage of the opportunities that are here sleeping at least 8 hours a day. Again, if you feel confortable at sleeping 5 hours a night, let's do it! But if know that your body needs to rest and you want to follow your normal rithym, let's do it!