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devilgate at 01:11pm on 30/09/2004
devilgate at 01:11pm on 30/09/2004OK, so on Monday I posted the final TMA for my OU course, A103: An Introduction to the Humanities. It was long, and broad, and mostly very good (though don't get me started about the History of Science block). So now I have my life back: I can read whatever I feel like reading, and not just coursework and the texts I'm studying; I can write what I want to, and not just the essay for the current assignment.
You have no idea — or rather, I had no idea — how much reading time a thing like that takes up. I do most of my reading while commuting nowadays, and sure enough, I did most of my studying while commuting. An hour each way makes ten hours a week. Subtract the times I didn't do that, and add in the other time I spent, and I suspect that's about the average time I spent overall: ten hours a week. Which is probably more than I did as an undergraduate 22 years ago. Well, OK, not counting going to lectures and stuff.
( Musings on my academic choices follow... )
You have no idea — or rather, I had no idea — how much reading time a thing like that takes up. I do most of my reading while commuting nowadays, and sure enough, I did most of my studying while commuting. An hour each way makes ten hours a week. Subtract the times I didn't do that, and add in the other time I spent, and I suspect that's about the average time I spent overall: ten hours a week. Which is probably more than I did as an undergraduate 22 years ago. Well, OK, not counting going to lectures and stuff.
( Musings on my academic choices follow... )
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