OU dilemma
The past week or so I’ve been doing not a lot of pretty much everything. Other problems with arms and hands and fingers not working properly have curtailed my typing, and I’ve been mainly reading. I haven’t touched any of my OU stuff since the other week when both assignments for both courses were due in. I did have a tutorial for the M150 course the other weekend which I went to, but it was just me and my tutor again, no-one else turned up, and we spent most of the talking about hospitals, the health service, and life in general before we eventually had a quick look at the next assignment.
I’ve been spending a lot of time these last few weeks reading, and just generally chilling out, and I’d forgotten how good that feels, just to do nothing in particular, and not worry that you should be doing something else (of course being me I did worry that I should be doing something else though, though I’ve managed to quash those thoughts mostly and chill). My current web clients are both in the “writing content” stage, so until I get that from them there’s nothing much doing there. Last week, after saying that I was going to finish off M150 as I’m now so close to the end of the course, but that I was just going to skim read the course materials for both courses, and just do enough to get me through the assignments, I decided that I liked this chilled new me, and I was going to drop T175 as I really don’t need the stress of juggling two courses.
I got my marked assignment back for M150 last week though, and I’ve no idea how I managed it, but I got a fairly respectable 51% which is damned near amazing as it was the programming assignment (Javascript) and I didn’t complete half the questions on the grounds that I couldn’t see the benefit in spending hours trying to get damned Javascript programs to work when I hate the language with a vengeance, and rarely use it. Tonight though I got my result back for the first T175 assignment, and I got 93% for that!
So now I’m feeling slightly guilty at the thought of just dropping it, when after May when the final M150 assignment’s gone in it’ll just be T175 to concentrate on. With a mark of 93% for the first assignment I’m thinking maybe it’d be silly to drop it. Hence the dilemma – to drop, or not to drop?
