I have found it very difficult to blog just lately,
the ideas have not been coming and I have been very busy adjusting to the
demands of my academic course. However I am starting to manage things better so
I thought that it was time to get back to writing.
I am finding my studies a real pleasure, I am
studying something that I am really interested in and enjoy. Also there is not
really the pressure of exams and nothing is riding on this other than personal
pride. My problem is sometimes that I go off at a tangent and read beyond my
brief. This can of course be time consuming. I find that I have to adjust to
the digital age, particularly in my note taking. It is a lot easier to read a
PDF as I can transpose the notes straight to my computer. Reading a book is
slower as I can read and write, however I cannot read and type on my computer.
The course material is excellent, I really only have
one issue and that is the participation of my fellow students. Every week we
are posed two questions and are supposed to blog about them, commenting in turn
on other people’s contributions. The first couple of weeks this worked well and
there were some lively discussions. However since then it has tailed off and
there are only two or three regular contributors. I find this a pity as I miss
the interaction with fellow students. I have a sneaking suspicion that the
majority are just reading and preparing for the end of term essay.
Still I am learning a lot, and really it is teaching
me how little I knew even about things local to me. I am finding the story
behind Whitby in the nineteenth century fascinating. Here was a small town
argued over by the grandee’s of the North Eastern Railway, and no less a person
than George Hudson that were fundamental to its development.
So now that I have started to get into a routine I
will endeavour to blog more.
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