I've finished the first semester at SHSU and started on the second, and all I have to say is that I'm totally exhausted by the effort. According to my estimates, the assignments for my two classes required 45,000 words written in various formats.
The summer load is a bit lighter, but still heavy -- I'm expecting 20,000 words, but the time is compressed to 10 weeks from 16 weeks. So I'm spending the summer season reading about Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap, and how they managed to outfight two major powers, mostly by simply surviving and a series of colossal political blunders by the French and United States.
It isn't particularly fun reading, but then war should be a depressing topic. Otherwise we'd have more of them.
Posted by Chris at June 2, 2003 10:25 PM