Week 8 Reading and Writing

It's crazy to think that this semester is already almost half way done. In fact, we're coming up on fall break which serves as the official marker of the end of the first half of the term. Through the 8 week of course work that I have done for this course thus far, I think that my favorite reading section is from the Noah collection that I read in one of the earlier weeks of the semester. I particularly enjoyed this one because of the new perspective it put on a story I had heard numerous times in scripture and in church, having grown up in a Christian family. I also particularly enjoyed this segment of the reading because it gave me an idea for one of the stories that I want to add to my story book collection in the second half of the semester as I continue to work on completing that. I'm really excited to continue working on my semester project and to see where that leads me in the coming
couple of months.

With 19 hours, this is how much reading it feels like I have assigned nightly

in all of my classes combined. Source: Pixabay

Something that has been a little bit daunting for me thus far is the time management aspect of this course, especially in regards to the Tuesday and Wednesday reading notes assignments. There have definitely been a couple of weeks that I had a tough time completing everything in what I saw as a timely manner, also somewhat in part to the fact that I am enrolled in 19 hours and it feels like there are constantly a million things that need my attention. I'm not entirely sure how to fix this for the second half of the semester but I'm just going to keep on keeping on and try to stay on top of the readings. Maybe I could even try and use the end of the previous week to read the first few sections of material for the next week to get a head start on this post that seems to take so much time every week. I want to figure out how to be more efficient in this aspect because although the readings are great and I feel that my notes are very thorough, I also feel that I only use a very small portion of the notes that I do take in recreating my own story each week for Thursday's assignment.