One of the recent changes in my life concerns my attempts to study (part time) at home, using distance learning, for a university degree. It’s been going on for two or three years, and whilst I’ve enjoyed the studying/reading part very much, I have not cared for the essay writing/exam parts at all.
Partly because I find that with a full time job, part time studying and other commitments, I just don’t have time to read or write, I decided to not study, but just work, read and write. However, I am working on a plan where I can get all the pleasures of part time study (reading, research, finding out stuff), without the pain (exams, essays). It mainly involves buying textbooks and reading them – not much of a plan but enough I hope.
Is this enough? After all, the actual qualification doesn’t matter to me (it was only ever a pride thing), so surely I can just self educate myself anyway?
It’s probably so obvious to most people reading this, but when you have spent the last three years studying hard (I have at least another four years to go – it’s part time remember) and 10 years before that being obsessed with obtaining a degree, sometimes it’s difficult to see the obvious.
