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[rlw74]

Just figured I would give an accountability update. I'm almost finished with my fourth course. I'm writing the final research paper now. This, by far, was the hardest (as in, most comprehensive) course. The textbook was over 1100 pages. I read the WHOLE thing. It was a lot! I also need to include ten sources for the research paper so I've been reading quite a few other books too. I think I'll probably refer back to many of the same sources for future papers so it will help to have read them now.

I had hoped to finish in 4 weeks but I think it will take me more like 6-7 weeks total. Still not too bad. I am ahead of schedule. My goal was 1 course a month but if I finish by February 9th I'll have finished 4 in 3 months.

LIB495 really prepared me for APA style writing but I have a lot to review for formatting a research paper. I doubt they want "chapters"/ modules so I'll be referring to some of the textbooks used in the LIB 495 course to figure out formatting. I guess those were a good investment. I still use Purdue Owl a lot. I constantly refer back to how I formatted things in my capstone paper. I guess it's my new template now.

While I'll be excited to be 1/3 of the way through the courses after this point, I don't think the courses are going to get any easier. I've read the Bible cover-to-cover many, many times so the first couple of courses were "easy". Now I'm into the grit of things. I'm still loving it though. So much of my undergrad was plugging away at courses I really didn't care for much. They were just to "check the box"and get finished fast. It's nice to do this as a hobby degree and it has given me more confidence overall.