Due to the misery that this course has become, thanks largely to the awful tutor/student relationship I find myself a part of, I’ve decided to put 90% less time and effort into the assignments. Up until this point, I’ve completed all the work as advised in the learning companions, going through a chapter a week, taking notes, doing the online activities when I’m told to do so, and so on.
All that effort got me scores I didn’t deserve and no willingness to help in any way when I asked politely – in fact, what I got was massive disrespect. This being a pass or fail course, and it having no impact on the final degree I’ll one day earn, I’ve decided my time and effort is much better spent on the other areas of my life.
So this time I did in 2 days what the learning companion said should take 4 weeks. No note-taking, didn’t read chapter 9, didn’t make an essay plan. Just read the chapters/listened to the audios in a couple of hours yesterday, and wrote the assignment in one 3 hour sitting tonight (I think I’ll submit it tomorrow because I don’t fancy negotiating the new submission system at 2 in the morning…Just in case).
For my previous assignment I spent the whole month on the thing and received the lowest mark I’ve ever got in my entire school/uni/night school/distance learning/OU history, so let’s see what a half-assed attempt gets me!
In the end, this one came in at 1,600 words, and for something done so fast it’s not bad. Let’s see how it gets scored.
