Change is not always my favourite thing but in the case of my approach to reading for my course it is proving necessary and surprisingly enough, very productive. I started out reading every chapter, going over it again and doing the assignments in the text and then, to make sure I dotted all the T's and crossed all the I's, checking the summaries of each chapter to see if I remembered what was in each section. This worked fine when I had enough time and not too many pages to read but when the number of pages that required reading went up it got a bit hard to keep up. So now I have introduced a new strategy. I am reading through the text seeing if I understand it and then moving on. I am trusting my brain to be able to remember at least the main points made in the text. So far it is paying off!! I am ahead of schedule with the reading and just have to finish off the last 20 pages of the final course book. At the same time I am thinking of starting work on the final assigment early as well. It has to be in on 23rd March but the sooner I can get started on it the better it might be for me. Give me a bit more time to revisit any bits I need to if I find that my brain is actually a sieve. Then it is only 4 more weeks from handing in the final assignment to the exam and then.... back to the freedom to read whatever! I know I keep going on about it, but you have no idea how much I am actually looking forward to being able to read whatever I want, to take as long as I like and not having to remember the essentials of what I am reading. Well.... I have to remember enough to be able to write a review but that is easy enough... 9 weeks to go, and counting.
So.. off to cook my dinner and then perhaps read a few more pages on Project Management Methodologies.
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