Tue 17 Jul 2007
Haven’t been writing much here because I’ve been spending most of my time writing for the two courses I’m taking this summer at Eastern Illinois University. I’ve been out of school over 10 years, so it’s a bit of a struggle starting up again. The work isn’t hard by any means, but it is time consuming. What I wouldn’t give for a few days off. The “break” I get between the end of the summer courses and the start of the fall semester will be filled with getting my servers and computer lab in shape for our new students at UIUC and with a planned long weekend back in New England immediately before school starts. So much for a relaxing summer. 😐
July 18th, 2007 at 11:36 am
I hear you. I took two classes in the spring (one was a MWF 11:00, the other a TuTh 11:00), and forewent going out for lunch every day in favor of going to class and then eating hot dogs in my office. It made me feel like I was constantly busy for about 4 months straight: if I wasn’t in class, I was catching up on work, and if I wasn’t at work, I was doing homework for my classes.
Still, though, it was pretty rewarding, and I’m glad I did it. I wasn’t even working towards anything specific–just taking classes that I wanted to take, more or less to see if I could do it. I would think with an end goal in mind it might be easier to keep yourself motivated, albeit potentially more daunting to consider how much you have left.
That said, I couldn’t be happier to have rediscovered the concept of “free time” since the semester ended. 🙂