MAY we have another Procrastinators thread please?

[fuzzpig]

See what I did there? :o

How's everyone doing? I am several weeks behind with no motivation whatsoever.

i could have written your thread fuzzpig - I thought exactly the same when the note came round about interrupted study but i can't do it either. i reckon i am about 6 weeks behind with the course and have no realistic hope of catching up and am just doing the reading for the TMAs at the moment.
It doesn't help that I still haven't got my TMA02 mark back yet - although I am not sure that i want it!!

I only got mine this morning, very happy with 93. I think the first 2 TMAs were easier for me because I'd studied most of the content at A level so it was familiar. The rest of the content of the course is quite unfamiliar though, so I have a feeling I will be struggling with the remaining 4. Let alone the exam.

I haven't even looked at TMA03 yet!

I am overloaded with work. Submitted a TMA at 5.45am after pulling an all-nighter (final one on this course). Need to read 2 huge books for the other course and do a TMA by late June but have all this course to revise for exam mid-June and I know it's going to be loads to revise cos I know it hasn't really sunk in.

fuzzpig - great news on the 93

think fuzzpig is a genius on the not so quiet!!

crafty, i have been overlapping courses too and it is not something that i will do again as it has left me so far behind with my current course that i am no longer enjoying it and am seriously thinking of withdrawing and starting again at some point in the future

it would help if my tutor actually responded to emails or marked assignments on time as at the moment i feel like i am drifting without any guidance - add to that another TMA due in 12 days that i haven't even opened the book for let alone done any of the other stuff in the study guide and the circle starts again

thank heavens for mumsnet to vent in peace!

gingergran - that sounds pretty familiar. I'm regretting the order of my modules more than anything else. I decided to overlap the heaviest workload level 3 30pt with the level 2 20pt, thinking it would even out but the level 2 has been more work than I expected. I've also changed the modules I'm doing next year and as they now have Oct & Feb start rather than 2 X feb starts, I really wish I'd overlapped the two modules with most similar content.

its really hard finding the right balance between getting the modules out the way as soon as possible to get the qualification and overloading yourself. i keep forgetting that unlike my children at university who just had to remember to get up to go to lectures etc. i have work, parents, children, grandchildren and everything else to contend with - i just feel i am keeping too many balls in the air at the moment and desperately trying not to drop any. hopefully it will get better with the overlap being over but i have to make up so much i am not sure it will be enjoyable - and to make matters worse my tutor has gone awol!

Final TMAs both due next week - Tues and Thursday. Then EMA and exam.

Signing in here as need massive kick up the bum. Feeling very flat and uninspired. 4000 words for first TMA seems rather pie in the sky at the moment.

Agree gingergran - getting the balance is hard. Am doing a level 2 and level 3 concurrently and it's a bit full on - always feeling behind, scrabbling to submit at last minute and loads of stuff that I need to do at home/family/work that I am putting off until the exams are done and just generally feeling jack of all trades and master of none.

Anyway, DH away at the moment so all the childcare and household admin is on me at the moment/over this weekend. Desperately attempting to cram all the reading and writing into school hours.

wildstrawberryplace sounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment

i have to say that sometimes i feel like i am my own worst enemy but putting things off when i could be doing them, or lurking on mums net when i have other stuff to do. I have taken to setting the timer on my phone and not moving until the alarm has rung - somehow if i know i have given myself permission to stop i don't need to.

I realise I never do the reading. I just do the TMAs. After each TMA I always intend to do the reading and, well, actually study. But I never do.

Is anyone else feeling pressured and rushed because of the fees rise? I was only doing courses because I fancied them. But now I have to carry on at the OU's pace because of the fees rise.

Hello all-I have to get my EMA plan in tomorrow and I haven't properly started yet, have spent the day shopping and drinking coffee

4000 words due on the 1st of June

I don't really do the reading either - at least not properly. I am hyperlexic and while I can read fast and accurately I struggle to understand it in any meaningful way. I would be screwed if it wasn't for the essay plans.

Got some very good advice from my tutor about the way to tackle the stuff I have missed and where to go from here and after a truly gobsmacking TMA result - 86% when I was expecting about 60 - I have decided to stick with it for the time being so back to the books tomorrow as next one is due on 22 may

Yay!

And also OMFG 22nd May? Really? FUCK

I've not actually done a single one of those activities they have several of in each chapter, and I don't have a clue what safari/focus software is, and I haven't even looked in the media kit.

The whole 'this course will be different' thing didn't really work out did it!

welcome to the 'winging-it' club fuzzpig!

:o veteran member since 2007!

It was much easier to Wing it in maths though... Worked examples to follow and usually a definite answer at the end. I miss maths.

Final TMA due on Wednesday, and an exam in a month...

Just wondering how much longer I can just make really pretty notes and spider thingys before I have to actually write something?

Ok don't laugh, but I just had this crazy idea that I can do 3 modules next year - only 1 exam, the rest is all TMAs and 2 EMAs.

I will have more time next year as DC in school full time then.

Do they allow that?

I really think I can do it - I am on target for a first - and if I end up having to drop one course I wouldn't really be so bothered, it would be worth it for the possibility of completing.

It would be a level 1, a level 2 and a level 3. Would mean I graduate next year.

There is no way I would attempt it if I had more than 1 exam though.

I think it depends on overlaps. I was told I couldn't do more than 120 credits at one time, but if the start dates are staggered, you might get away with it. Also check out the TMA dates on each, and if they have it, look at the student reviews and what they say about work load, being harder than they expected etc. etc.

I'm planning on doing 90 credits next year, but one module is regularly referred to as "more like a 60 credit workload". Fortunately the DCs are all at school, and I work very part time.

Hmm interesting - one of them is available on a Feb start in 2013...

I'm doing 120 points this year, made up of level 2 and level 3.

sounds very brave to me strawberry, i could cope with doing a level 1 and 2 at the same time with everything else that life threw at me

brave or just foolhardy more like

So I have been doing as much reading as possible and now know what my argument is. Essay plan and quotes and possibly biblio tomorrow, then 3500 words to do in 2 days. Achievable? I bloody hope so.

I have been baking today, typical procrastination thing. But at least I now have a tray of salted caramel pecan shortbread to sustain me while I watch The Bridge do some work.

I don't think the OU are very keen on people doing more than 60 points at a time.

I do think you would be VERY ambitious to try it.

I wouldn't dare, in fact I'm considering doing a 30 pointer next year [wimp]

think they advise no more than 120 credits - but if you work, have family etc that can be quite tough

Fuzzpig, are you doing option 1 or 2 - have some tutorial notes from yesterday if you are interested