Okay, so the study year has resumed. After a nice long break, I am back at it.
And this year seems like it's going to be a huge/long/massively more stressful than last year!
Workload during the last week...which seems like it's going to be Normative:
-Reformations - read 40-50 pages of Luther's work (it took me about 3 hours to read like 30 pages...cuz it's so hard to understand >.<)
-Theology - read some dude's article attacking the theology of some other dude (took me about 2 hours) and then make a 500 word summary.
- read the theology text book (still haven't finished the required reading).
-Psalms - Read 20-30 pages of Interpreting the Psalms.
-1 Corinthians in Greek - Translate passages (requiring me to read commentaries and linguistic exegetical stuff)
- Read Brian's commentary (barely read it so far..)
- Read extra tutorial stuff.
- Try to revise my Greek, which I've forgotten so much of.
- Practice just naturally reading Greek (instead of trying to parse every word).
On top of all of this is my 5 essays that'll be due from week 4 to week 8(or 9).
So here I am... in the Library on a Saturday... trying to start early on my Psalms essay. Cuz I know that as soon as essays are almost due in, all the weekly reading/work will become negligible. Which is really bad cuz I actually want to keep reading and keep learning...even if it's not assessed.
I find reading soooo hard. I'm very good with reading Fiction books lol! But not technical and non-fiction books. I read and chunk and go "what on earth did I just read?"... then I have to re-read it. Doesn't help that all the technical words/languages confuse me...
Sigh...wouldn't it be so much better if I came from an Arts/Law background...in which they're very experienced at reading chunks and chunks of stuff....
I'm so glad I didn't continue with Hebrew B (I did an intensive course of the language Hebrew A in the 3 weeks leading up to the start of the Semester).... I would have totally died.
So there goes all my social life.... But I guess I never had much of it anyway!!
If you're reading this... pray for me!!
~Kev.
~Kev.
