This is my private Open University blog recording the ups & downs of being an Arts student for the first time at age 36. Started in late January 2006, I hope to use this blog to vent my frustrations plus celebrate my triumphs as well as show to other newby OU students that they're not alone!

10 April 2007

Lost in Dissipation

It's more than 2 weeks since I last posted and - unbelievably - I'm still on the same block book. It is really dragging on and on and I'm losing the will to live. It is an incredibly boring read and yet, I've still got another 100 pages to go. This book is easier to comprehend than Block 1's but it just goes on and on and on and on. The longer this takes the more I'm starting to panic about not making the TMA2 deadline. Will I have enough time to write something half-decent?

It's really sad that I've now lost the enthusiasm that I had when the result came in. Then I really wanted to 'think outside the box' and start some external research. Now, I can't bothered if the main text is making me sleep (uneasily).

PS On reflection, perhaps I'm being a tad melodramatic here. I seem to remember that I had the same problem last year with the French Revolution block in A103. It also dragged on & on and - surprise, surprise - I did ok in the end. I should keep thinking of that when I start getting anxious again. Anyway, I hope to god this torture will end soon!

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