Studying is tough!
Being a mature student is tough.
As each semester nears I get excited and eager to start. After about 3 or 4 weeks I succomb to the work and get bogged down in keeping up with everyone else who seems to spend 24 hours a day studying! They don’t of course, but it feels like it. Deep down I know that many folks in the class are like me, trying to fit study in amongst work and other interests. At least I don’t have children to further gobble my time!
Around about this time I have completed the initial essay and get my second wind, catching up and maybe even getting ahead of the challenging pace of the course. This lasts about a week, after which I realise that I need to get stuck into the project which will take the rest of the 14 week semester.
Then, everything gets hectic in the last couple of weeks, where several assessments including the project are due all at once. Finally it all ends and I breathe a huge sigh of relief. At about this time I am telling myself that I won’t bother enrolling next semester. I ask myself why I am doing this to myself?
But of course I will enroll, and I will enjoy it. And that is the whole point really. It’s just plain fun and keeps my mind challenged.
My chief regret is that I usually have to put aside my writing throughout the semester, and that hurts.
