Ah that nice "up to date" feeling. My TMAs are in and I,m actually a week ahead on U101. I've adapted to life without an engineering course and have a targeted study plan for the next three months.
To get here, of course, I had to buckle down and finish the B121 TMA early and then move on to U101. The B121 had to be finished a week early because it was way too big to be uploaded, a point I had raised in the first tutorial, so I had to post it and posting requires a little more lead time than uploading. Then you entrust it to the Royal Mail and keep your fingers crossed.
Then it was time to get on with TMA03 of U101 and this is where the rollin' started. TMA03 is about designing a board game (rollin'=dice, geddit) and putting your "role" into that game. After a false start that cost me about 9 hours work, and nearly made me give up, I came up with a gardening game which, while starting off slowly, gathered momentum swiftly and really got me rollin' along. The course guide says that a student should take about 50 hours to complete this TMA and, I can tell you, that's a pretty good estimate but it all seemed to roll along nicely. The exercise was, ultimately, enjoyable. Once the initial idea started to develop, the project took on a life of it's own so, at the moment, I'm buzzing with enthusiasm for U101.
Unfortunately my next target is to get a chunk of B121 (Managing in the Workplace) done and I'm finding it drier than a mummy's armpit.
Oh well, back to willpower.