No break in 2012 :(

[burbuja0512]

Can you move ahead in class and then take a week off for vacation?

That is a great question and I may attempt to do so. I haven't had any success yet in moving ahead significantly because the workload is so intense. There is generally a daily reading assignment and class forum posting. No, you don't HAVE to do it every day; you could do it all on one day as long as you meet the Saturday evening due dates for each week, but it's too much for my schedule. I can only read about 50 pages a day maximum and that's when it's in English. My classes in Spanish require much more thought because I'm still not entirely comfortable with Spanish at the graduate level. On top of the reading and forum posting, we generally have one big weekly paper due. This is something that I could work ahead on and the only reason why I haven't is because the forum work and weekly reading greatly contribute to my ease in writing the paper. Our topics for daily discussion often provide interesting debates that can provide ideas for inclusion in my weekly written assignment.

My school also does not provide a lot of advanced notice to what the syllabus will be. Even though class starts on Monday the 9th, I still won't be have access to my class until Friday or Saturday at the earliest. I'm not sure why they do this, but it is a little annoying lol. I think that they're trying to make everyone stay on the same topic at the same time.

All that being said, I HAVE to figure out a way to clear my schedule and work ahead a little bit. I have a really big business trip to Asia the end of the month and I plan to be working all day, and fully anticipate business dinners and meetings to go late into the evening. I don't know how I'll do it without falling behind in school if I don't figure out how to do at least some work before I go.