A207

I finally got my course work for A207 yesterday.
I've been looking forward to getting it for some time now and was so happy to receive it.
The thing is it looks a lot harder than I thought it would be. I knew that it wasn't going to be easy but just the covers of the books make the course look hard.
The course is due to start a week on Monday and I'm going to be looking through it from now and till then and just hope that I can do it.

I was saying a few weeks ago that I wanted so much to do my first ever course again (A103) as I enjoyed it so much because all of the subjects involved. Well A207 is a history course but what I didn't realize is that I will be doing the same subjects as I did during A103 in this course. That cheered me up no end.

I haven't studied properly since I finished A103 in September 2003. I know that I have since done two courses but they weren't really academic like A103 was. T171 I lost interest in after the first month and never did any course work except a week up to the assignment due date and the work I did was nothing like A103 or A207. TXR174 was a great course and my second favorite that I would also like to do again one day. That course was easy to me. The first TMA (assignment) was done in about 30 minutes and that included the final print out on the computer. The second one I must admit had me worried and struggling for a while on it. I was having writers block. I have now come to realize that probably had somethig to do with not studying since the end of 2003. That TMA took me ages to realize what the questions were asking but once I got them I couldn't stop writing and the whole thing was done in about 10 hours and that was a big one, it was something like 21 pages long.

So I'm looking at A207 and I'm getting distracted easy and bored very easierly and my concentration levels are so low at the moment. I can't even sit there for ten minutes and look at it and that is driving me mad. I know I have a low concentration span but thirty minutes never use to be hard when I was into studying before. I just do't feel motivated anymoew like I was and I found myself reading through some and not getting it at all and I was like that a little at the end of A103. I wasn't like that at the beginning of the course but at the end on one of the TMAs. I just don't know what to do about my lack of motivation but I need to pull myself out of it as soon as I can as I'm not willing to fail this course.
I know one of my big distractions is this computer and I know that a lot of the reasons why I didn't give T171 a proper go was me spending so much time on this computer so I have to try to pull myself out of this lull pf sitting here and wasting my time away playing games and chatting all day. I'm going to set some sort of schedule and plan which doesn't even allow me to turn the computer on unless I have done a certain amount of course work each day as well as the other things I need to do that I have been neglecting for such a long time.
It's about time that I stopped living my life in front of the computer as if I carry on this way I won't do well in this course and I will probably fail it and I don't want to do that as I'm half way through my degree and the degree is one of the things that I want most in life and me being on here all the time is jepidising that.

Anyway I will try my hardest to get myself out of this lull and get myself motivated into my course work as soon as I can' Hopefully before the course starts in ten days time.