I have just finished my side of the S1 course (marking and results pending for a further three weeks or so), and I feel a sense of loss. Admittedly I am pleased to no longer have the ECA hanging over me, and the knowledge that it is completed is positive knowledge. This is the first course where I have ever actively enjoyed the forums. There have been so many interesting and kind people, and it's odd to think of not speaking to them again. I think I've been using it as intellectual escapism. That is, because it is significantly less mentally taxing than my other two courses, but it is still technically 'studying'. So often when I disappear upstairs under the pretence of 'studying', I am in fact just browsing the S1 forum. And I feel no sense of guilt in that. It doesn't work in the same way for the other courses, as for one the forums are largely inactive, and for two I don't feel I know anyone on them. I don't actually know anyone on the S1 course, but I feel like I do, which is a first for an OU course, and very cool, I think.
I guess I can still hang about in the forums until they close. In fact, that's where I'm headed now, as there was a message that deserves immediate attention.
Tomorrow is the start of 10 days of S3. I've bought a new notebook to mark the occasion. Undeniably pointless.
The black line that has invaded my field of vision is becoming quite an irritant, particularly as I know it's here to stay. I have to find a way to love it. I just wish it didn't have to float about right infront of whatever it is I'm trying to look at. Anyway, quick visit to the forums...
Odd
I have just finished my side of the S1 course (marking and results pending for a further three weeks or so), and I feel a sense of loss. Admittedly I am pleased to no longer have the ECA hanging over me, and the knowledge that it is completed is positive knowledge. This is the first course where I have ever actively enjoyed the forums. There have been so many interesting and kind people, and it's odd to think of not speaking to them again. I think I've been using it as intellectual escapism. That is, because it is significantly less mentally taxing than my other two courses, but it is still technically 'studying'. So often when I disappear upstairs under the pretence of 'studying', I am in fact just browsing the S1 forum. And I feel no sense of guilt in that. It doesn't work in the same way for the other courses, as for one the forums are largely inactive, and for two I don't feel I know anyone on them. I don't actually know anyone on the S1 course, but I feel like I do, which is a first for an OU course, and very cool, I think.
I guess I can still hang about in the forums until they close. In fact, that's where I'm headed now, as there was a message that deserves immediate attention.
Tomorrow is the start of 10 days of S3. I've bought a new notebook to mark the occasion. Undeniably pointless.
The black line that has invaded my field of vision is becoming quite an irritant, particularly as I know it's here to stay. I have to find a way to love it. I just wish it didn't have to float about right infront of whatever it is I'm trying to look at. Anyway, quick visit to the forums...