Extramural Presidents Blog » Summer school http://exmss.org/presidentsblog Just another Massey University Extramural Community weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Summer School Is Hell For Me http://exmss.org/presidentsblog/2009/01/13/summer-school-is-hell-for-me/ http://exmss.org/presidentsblog/2009/01/13/summer-school-is-hell-for-me/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:58:59 +0000 admin http://exmss.wordpress.com/?p=321 When we decided to ‘stay around the house’ this summer I thought it meant we would be cruising. Lazy afternoons in the garden, get a few odd jobs done about the place. In November I thought, if I do a paper over summer I will finish my degree in June – that would be nice. Unfortunately in December it was decided that we will be painting the house and then the kids finished school and shouted “Let’s go Dad, what are we going to do first,  camping or a beach trip?”

Christmas required a Jekyll and Hyde personality. By day I was the pleasant ‘Dad about the House’ and at night a maniac, reading and scribbling  frantically in order to present my 2,500 words following the New Year. I was constantly distracted: “Ahh yes, those were actually for Isaac and if we open this it will probably be for Kendal”. Christmas was confused this year.

The house got its paint, two coats, we camped on two occasions and day tripped to the beach but I live with the constant nag that I have not done enough study. I feel drained, deferring exercise and sun for study, my energy reflecting the constant sub-dermal pressure of  year-long study.

Summer study may be hell for me but there are others out there who are loving it. What is it that makes it work for them? I do know deep down that I will get through this. The contact course will help motivate me and I will get a week or two off before Semester One papers start. I won’t be giving up - but boy, these summer papers are hell.

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