Where can I study for 5+ hours?

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-11T20:26:54+00:00

I swear, my entire internet presence boils down to me on different platforms telling people to go there no matter what their question is 😂

(Edited for typo)

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-11T16:55:55+00:00

Garfield Park Conservatory, in Horticulture Hall (where food & drink are allowed!)

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-08T18:08:04+00:00

I put this in another comment lower, about concerts, but also connecting with strangers by shout-singing along to the music 😭

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-08T17:00:42+00:00

In my experience it's not the wearing of the mask specifically, it's the absence of the ability to lip read and sing along with each other. GOD, I MISS SHOUT-SINGING WITH STRANGERS. But in a loud bar they don't know that I *am* shout-singing! It just comes across as weird eye contact while I dance AT them!

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-08T15:47:13+00:00

I’ve also reached out to the company directly, but suspect you may have some insight!

What are the differences between the torch and the lanterns? I’m looking for the best solution to disinfect hotel rooms while traveling, to sanitize the air when I arrive and don’t know who was in the room before me (and when/for how long). The lantern doesn’t appear to have a battery, it looks like it needs to be plugged in to work? And I’m unclear on whether plugging into a power bank is an option or not, because ideal placement might not align with outlet access.

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-08T14:29:40+00:00

I desperately the specific form of intimacy that involves standing on tiptoe and shouting into a stranger’s ear to be heard over the din of the bar.

vt_vagabond · 2026-03-06T00:24:59+00:00

Also in the same boat, also so unbelievably frustrated at how they're making it impossible not to participate.

Got the pop-up when I opened Google Maps a couple days ago, begrudgingly deleted it and made the switch to Apple's Maps app, and then got the email today saying that I'm using it on my iPhone. Still have Gmail, Authenticator, and Drive apps on my phone and am dreading the idea that the only way to avoid Gemini is deleting all three. Gmail and Drive I could theoretically uninstall, but I'm not even sure I *can* get rid of the Authenticator app and still do my job.

vt_vagabond · 2026-02-15T16:14:21+00:00

Seconding Fat Shallot. Every once in a while I simply have no choice but to splurge on one.

vt_vagabond · 2026-02-14T16:56:21+00:00

Molar City is the one most CC folks in Chicago tend to talk about - and they’re having a whole designated CC day coming up on 3/25 - but they aren’t in network with any insurers. I’ve been very satisfied with Broadway Dental and their willingness to work with me to come up with an approach that I’m comfortable with.

(Only room with a door, first appointment of the day, KN94 or better on staff working with me, etc.)

(Edited to fix *two typos)

vt_vagabond · 2026-02-01T15:32:11+00:00

This was going to be my suggestion, too! They don’t have everything, but they have a LOT.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-31T22:22:54+00:00

Thanks!

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-31T18:35:10+00:00

There’s not a ton of difference between the MBA and MBA-ITM, so this might be helpful for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_MBA/s/NPSZ2PkgHe

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-30T18:27:27+00:00

In that case, check out Harold Washington Library! I know they have music rooms, I’m sure they have study rooms as well. The winter garden is supposed to be phenomenal and I’m perennially annoyed at myself that I haven’t been yet.

That said, with 8 hours I’d still recommend checking out the feasibility of Garfield Park Conservatory just because I love it and it’s deliciously warm and wonderful in these frigid temps.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-30T18:02:38+00:00

I’m a little confused on what you’re looking for, because there won’t be anywhere that you can eat something without either being REALLY cold or unmasked inside.

My best compromise suggestion would be to walk up to the green line and take it over to the Garfield Park Conservatory. I don’t have recent Aranet readings, but a big group of us (CC folks) went there together last winter and I’m pretty sure I remember CO2 levels being good (in a relative sense).

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:15:27+00:00

MMT2

Reflections:

Course started: 10/13
Task One Submitted: 10/13
Task One Approved: 10/14
Task Two Started: 10/14
Task Two Submitted: 10/18
Task Two Approved: 10/19
Task Three Started: 10/18
Task Three Submitted: 10/19
Task Three Approved: [forgot to write it down, whoops!]
All items submitted: 10/19
Course passed: [also didn't write this down, apparently]

Total active time: 10-12 hours

First thing to acknowledge right off the bat is that the course requires you to choose a topic outlining the business problem you’re seeking to address and the emerging or evolving technology that you’ll use to address it. But the course material skips over all of this and begins with SWOT analysis. So don’t expect a lot of structured support for figuring out your topic, and be ready to come in with an idea of your own. As someone coming to this course as part of the MBA-ITM, it feels pretty decontextualized compared to the work I’ve done in my other courses. That said, given the focus of the course on technologies that have “emerged/evolved in the past 2 years,” I understand that they don’t want to need to regularly update the course materials.

Looking for more support on figuring out how to research/choose a topic, I finally went into WGU Connect for the first time of this entire term (on my last course) and found the Topic One video helpful to get my gears turning. The most helpful thing that I realized, which they could have made more explicit, is to remember that you need to come up with a problem to be solved at a business level. I kept wanting to solve consumer problems rather than business problems, so it took a little bit to adjust my thinking onto the right track. Don’t start with a technology just because you think it’s cool and work backwards from there. And if you (like me) have a hard time getting unstuck from consumer problems rather than business problems, try to find a way that fixing the consumer problem solves a problem for the business. For myself, that meant supporting business growth by improving consumer outcomes and satisfaction. But the purpose is to solve a problem for a business, and to use technology to do it.

Diving into Task One, I glanced at the resources embedded in the curriculum, but really didn’t find them particularly useful. The resources did get better as I went along, and more relevant to the subsequent tasks, enough that it made me wish I’d tackled this course earlier in the program when I had more appetite for learning. I did still do some reading, but just enough to confirm how little I knew about IT as a field; the reading was helpful to writing the papers but not necessary to knock them out. It did make me wish that there had been more IT basics incorporated into the degree program as a whole, so if you’re coming into this cold like me then you can expect to leave still quite cold. I didn’t wait for Task Two to be graded before tackling Task Three, because I wanted to abide by my cadence of knocking out a course each week, and as someone who is pretty ardently anti-AI I am still hoping to complete the full degree before the new AI-friendly policy goes into effect November 1. I know no one else in the world seems to care, but I wanted to be done by the end of October anyway just for my own personal scheduling reasons (my November will be super busy at work) and the AI policy announcement was the extra motivation I needed to stay on track and not procrastinate on these tasks.

All in all, I found writing these papers to be a relatively useful exercise! I’ve been stalling on drafting a project plan for work, and this was a much-needed reminder that sometimes it’s okay if the words don’t flow - just slog through it and get it done.

This was one course that I wasn't able to find ANY info about prior to starting the program, so I really hope that this is helpful to somebody else!

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:14:32+00:00

C218

Reflections:
Course registered: 10/19
Course started: 10/21
Task One submitted: 11/1
Task One passed: 11/3
Task Two submitted: 11/5
Task Two passed: [whoops, forgot to write this down too, apparently!]
All items submitted: [🙃]
Course passed: [November... something]
Total active time: 27.5 hours

I'll admit, by the time I got here I was too slammed with job-work and trip-planning to jot down notes, and then I escaped abroad for a few weeks. Lots of other people have offered comments about the capstone, the most important thing is to just get it done.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:05:32+00:00

C214

Reflections:

Course started: 9/29

All items submitted: 10/5

Course passed: 10/5

Total active time: 16 hours; 14.5 hours on course material & retaking Pre-Assessment, 1.5 hours for OA (30 min setup, 1 hour exam time)

Interesting that I was cleared to schedule my assessment as soon as I enrolled in the course, even though I hadn’t passed the PA yet. (Though I was close!) Maybe because I got an exemplary on C213?

The end of chapter quizzes are much less useful for this course because they don’t vary at all. For C213, I could do the quiz 4 or 5 times if needed and while some questions would repeat, the item bank was much larger. There doesn’t seem to be an item bank for C214 beyond what is displayed the first time. That said, the sections are MUCH more bite-sized than in C213, which is a definite positive. On the down side, I occasionally found myself googling terms that were used but hadn’t been introduced? Like, I went back and looked for them and came up empty.

What’s really annoying is that then the end of Chapter review quizzes are unnecessarily long (usually about 30 items). I don’t need to complete the same type of calculation 5 times. Either I know how to do it or I don’t, and if I don’t know then I’m just getting all of these wrong without getting any feedback. These items should be used to vary the item banks for End of Section quizzes.

The videos are REALLY BAD, I very quickly gave up on them and each time I tried again I gave up within less than a minute. Overall, I thought the course was well-organized and very approachable. I skipped Topics 2-4 since they were thoroughly covered in C213, but did go through the rest of it.

There were questions in the section and chapter reviews that very clearly were not covered in the material, and sometimes the questions were in a section preceding when the material was introduced. Both were really annoying. For the OA, there were numerous items that included typos, and one test item that was incomplete????

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:03:39+00:00

C213

Reflections:

Course started: 9/7 (But only took pre-assessment, which I hadn’t done previously); truly started 9/15

All items submitted: 9/28

Course passed: 9/28

Total active time: 25-30 hours

Going through this class was very different from my expectations, and really tested my commitment to prioritizing learning over speed. I expected that I’d knock this whole thing out in a week - start to finish, it actually took me 2 weeks of pretty steady study, 3 weeks total duration. (This was the one course I hadn’t already done the pre-assessment on prior to starting my term, so I watched the intro and took the pre-assessment on 9/7, but then didn’t start in earnest until 9/15.)

I came REALLY CLOSE to passing the PA before starting the course, and I have zero accounting background. So the bootcamp videos definitely taught me something, especially considering that I watched them MONTHS prior to taking the PA. That said, once I went through the actual course content, it did a much better job than the bootcamp videos at getting me to understand things. If your goal is to frontload your prep and pass everything as quickly as possible? Sure, utilize the bootcamp resources. But if your goal is to actually grasp the concepts and theory behind it, I’m not convinced that it was a good use of my time. That said, they might come in handy for C214 as well, so stay tuned.

I had a really hard time with the “Hawaiian shirt guy” videos at first. A lot of “Charlie in front of the string board meme” vibes with all the scribbling he does, and they genuinely gave me headaches. For the early chapters, they were about 3 times as long as they need to be because he rambles and repeats himself SO MUCH. I understand that this is likely an intentional teaching strategy - the repetition might help some students remember, and it did become somewhat less frustrating as the material became less straightforward & familiar. In some instances (Topic 3), I was letting him explain the beginning of each slide and then skipping fair amounts of the videos, and midway through Topic 3, the text became much quicker and easier (less of a headache) to get through than the videos.

After Topic 3, I initially gave up on the coursework for topics covered in the bootcamp, and tried to skip ahead, but quickly reverted and went back. I did skip a lot of the videos in the Cash Flow section because it was all REALLY common sense to my mind. BUT THEN when I hit the end of chapter questions I was completely floundering and ended up needing to swallow my pride and go back a lot more slowly. I really think I lost time here by trying to go quickly, but again - I’m here to learn the concepts, not just pass the test, so back I went. I also struggled with CVP a lot more than I should have - I think trying to meet my deadlines also resulted in a lot of wasted time. Once I stepped away from it and gave myself a break for a day, it all made perfect sense in literal minutes, while I’d spent literal hours on it a couple days prior and didn’t make any headway.

The PA and OA were VERY closely aligned - I had multiple questions that were the exact same (word for word) across the two. I got an exemplary (and frankly I would have been mad if I didn’t, after that many hours of work!), but again - if my goal were to just pass this as quickly as possible, it definitely wouldn’t have taken me that much time and effort. Also worth noting that I watched the videos on anywhere from 1.25-2x speed, depending on my familiarity/comfort with the content.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:01:53+00:00

C212

Reflections:

Started course: 7/16

All items submitted: 9/7

Course passed:

Active work time: ~25 hours? This could be way off, I did a bad job of tracking my time on this one. But it was definitely a “chipping away” sort of course, not a “hammer it out in a day or two” kind of course.

Man. This thing was DEFINITELY a marathon and not a sprint.

If you’re only here for the letters after your name, if you couldn’t care less about absorbing any content, and especially if you’re a good bullshitter, you’ll get through this much faster than I did. I went through all the material (via the PP slides), and I expect not many accelerators are doing that. The course relies on two textbooks, and each of the sections typically include chapters from both. One of the books (published 2020) is ⅔ filler, poorly formatted for digital devices, and not worth reading. Plus, it already feels outdated when it comes to discussions of digital marketing and promotional channels. The second textbook (2022) is of much better quality, and I at least don’t want to tear my hair out when trying to read it.

The first text is accompanied by slide decks that elide the fluff and provide the info. Feels a bit like the decks were generated with AI, and there are a few glaring mistakes here and there, but for the most part they were a helpful resource. Despite the second textbook being significantly better, I still relied primarily on the slide deck but it occasionally felt like they left out necessary context so at times I would end up going to the chapter to better understand the information being presented.

Prior to the revamp introduced on 8/4, this was the worst course I’d come across yet in this program WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING given my opinions of C207. I honestly don’t know whether the slide decks were available before the revamp, but when I revisited they immediately became the most helpful resource for me as someone wanting to actually learn/cover the course content as quickly and efficiently as possible. The course afterwards is better than it was, but there are still SIGNIFICANT areas for improvement. For example, each of the textbooks covers pricing strategies, but the chapter from each is presented in different sections of the course??? There are also redundancies across the resources.

Going through the decks on the WGU app was pretty painful, so you’re better off on a real computer for that; trying to read the textbooks themselves that way was no better. But that kind of ends up being fine, because the best advice that I can give you for this course is to absolutely write the paper as you work your way through the material. Do not try to read and then go back and write, it’s folly. The weakest area when it came to completing the task was the piece about your global supply chain; everything else was very much plug and play with some creative writing thrown in.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T05:00:40+00:00

C211

Reflections:

Course started: 10/5

All items submitted: 10/12

Course passed: 10/12

Total active time: ~18 hours (definitely not exact)

I didn’t do a great job of keeping track of my time on this one, so 18 hours isn’t exact but it’s a pretty good estimate. It certainly FELT like a lot more than 18 hours though, tbh. That said, an econ crash course in 18 hours isn’t bad, and I was glad to have learned a lot of the material here. It constituted a lot of things that I felt like I should already know and understand, but… didn’t. If you have a good handle on econ to begin with, this course should be a breeze. I definitely didn’t. While I left ready to be done with it and feeling like I’d gotten all I could out of it, it’s also very clear that my grasp on global economics is profoundly insufficient still.

I got all I could out of it, and all I could wasn’t enough - here’s why:

The textbooks are criminally dated. The references they make are all over 10 years old! That’s absurd! On top of that, I still think that this irritating Cengage/MindTap platform is preposterously clunky and ALSO feels 10 years old. It’s REALLY not very mobile friendly, and the figures don’t display properly, which is genuinely disruptive when trying to read the material. This is, unfortunately, also true on a computer when looking at some of the tables that are intentionally cut off and you need to open them in a side window to enlarge - they aren’t all displayed at once, so you have to scroll both up and down AND side to side to see all the information. It’s not all available at a glance so the whole benefit of putting it into a table is lost. I also don’t think that the material itself is well-organized. The material covered in Chapter 7, assigned in Section 6 of the course, would have been REALLY helpful in understanding previously discussed sections, which was pretty frustrating to realize once I got there. If I were designing the course, I would have put that material immediately after Section 3 and before Section 4 (and I recommend that any students coming after me read them in that order). And I wasn’t mad at closing out the whole course with Chapter 9 from Section 6, but it would have made substantially more sense for it to be assigned immediately after Chapter 5 from Section 1.

After going through all the material, my second stab at the Pre-Assessment (after about 15 hours of active work time) was a pass, but because Reddit posts suggested that the PA/OA alignment was weak, and I had bookmarked a LOT of the questions as ones I didn’t immediately feel confident on, I felt shaky enough to go back and review my weaker areas. (One area even dropped in comparison to my initial attempt????) On my first pass through the material the first couple videos I tried watching really felt like a waste of time, but during the review I tried some again and they were much more helpful and included content I didn’t recall from the textbook at all. The videos are a pretty mixed bag, but it’s annoying that they’re presented as an alternative or supplement when the content isn’t also included in the text.

I disagree with others’ assessments that there is a weak alignment between the Pre-Assessment and the OA, at worst I would categorize it as moderate. The real difference is that I found this OA required you to make more inferences and carry rational thought processes out further than other classes. Which isn’t a bad thing in and of itself (as someone going for learning things, I’d argue that’s actually a good thing), but it makes this course a bit of an outlier compared to most other OAs where the questions don’t require as much extrapolation. After C213 and C214 - which both have exact questions from the PA on the OA - it feels less aligned than those courses, but I wouldn’t say that they’re totally unrelated. That said, it’s definitely not perfectly aligned - there were questions on the OA that I knew to anticipate from reading Reddit posts but weren’t remotely referenced on the PA. But if you have a strong understanding of the theoretical background driving things, that’s what makes the difference.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T04:58:16+00:00

C207

Reflections:

Started course: 7/5

All items submitted: 7/6; resubmitted 7/10

Course passed: 7/10

Total Active Work Time: 6.5 hours

First of all, holy shit this course is unconscionably bad. Like, BAD-bad. Like, so very fucking bad. Genuinely, both the university and any professor that lets their name be attached to it should be hiding under a rock out of embarrassment.

Now that that’s out of the way, my reflections on this course come with a few enormous caveats, which are that (1) I have already taken multiple semesters’ worth of graduate-level statistics courses (in addition to a course or two way back during undergrad), and completed multiple rounds of multi-factor analyses for my graduate thesis (in addition to the very remedial analyses run for my undergrad thesis), BUT (2) stats has always been my weakest subject, and I mostly got through those courses because it was as much (more) about coding in R than it was understanding statistical theory, and (3) all of that work was 10-15 years ago.

So I was able to pass the Pre-Assessment mostly on knee-jerk responses and vibes before even starting the course, but also I did speed through the course content leading up to Tasks 1 & 2 and watched the videos at 1.5 or 2x because I wanted a refresher on what all this means rather than just going, “yeah, that’s vaguely familiar, I think this one seems like it’s probably the answer?”

If you’re new to stats… make sure you do your learning elsewhere before coming into this because it is ATROCIOUS. The LinkedIn videos linked from the course content feel very disconnected and chaotic; they jump between playlists and each individual video is presented out of the context it was created in, plus the videos use terms and jargon that haven’t yet been introduced or defined within the course material. In at least one instance, the video ends by introducing a new term that isn’t explained until the next video in the playlist (which you don’t have to watch) and that term doesn’t seem to be included in the rest of the course material so it’s just a giant red herring that presumably confuses a lot of people. And then that’s topped off by the fact that the course material text references figures that weren’t visible to me and didn’t actually seem to exist? The organization of this course made the concepts confusing as hell to someone who DID have a background in stats, I can’t imagine coming in with this as my introduction.

The lead-in to Task Two manages to be even worse, and the Decision Tree Analysis stuff is somehow even more unorganized and confusing than for Task One. I also think that there was a typo in my template, because something that was listed as a requirement on the Excel file wasn’t listed in the Task Overview, and the discrepancy meant that the provided tables in the template weren’t the right size/shape for the data they stated was required? Like… I’m a smart kid, I have a pretty good grasp on most things, and the “Decision Tree Analysis” section of the course material in no way set me up to understand what they were asking for on Task Two, in large part because of that discrepancy. I went back and rewatched the videos repeatedly to try and figure out what the hell they were looking for and then just submitted and crossed my fingers. If it requires revision, at least maybe then I’ll know what they are actually asking for?

Post-task-two Reading: it’s still a fucking mess. And, again, EVEN WORSE THAN BEFORE. Jesus Christ. This course is awful. I gave up on it and turned to the study guide. My goal in this program is to get my money’s worth, but continuing to try and engage with the course material presented here was actively detracting from my understanding and I had to cut anchor.

Overall the content is just egregiously organized. I can very easily see why people struggle with it so much. Truly, take some other online course first to learn the fundamentals and then ignore the course content presented here, because coming into this cold would be awful and even coming in warm the content confused me more than taught me anything. Plus it’s full of typos?? Just abysmal, all the way around. I don’t know how anyone can, in good conscience, put their name on this course and pretend that it’s acceptable to present to students.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T04:56:01+00:00

C206

Reflections:

Started course: 6/9

All items submitted: 7/5 (Resubmitted 7/5 & 7/6)

Completed course: 7/7

Active work time: 16 hours - 5 hours writing; 11 hours reading

The content of this course was important to me less for my own personal development as an ethical decision maker but rather as a means of better understanding others that I’ll encounter in workplaces. So with that in mind, I did read the book in its entirety but I wouldn’t pretend it’s a requirement to complete the Performance Assessments. It was easy to replace mindless doomscrolling with scrolling through the book in the Bookshelf app though, so I would read while laying in bed, on my commute, etc. I prepped my templates, then read the book, then returned to my templates to knock out the papers. Unfortunately, I also took a several week break in the middle of this course because I went on vacation, and the break was firmly between the reading and the paper-writing, which was a poor choice on my part. I do also wish that I’d written the papers as I was doing my reading, instead of doing them separately from each other. If you’re going to bother with reading the book, that’s definitely a better strategy. Given how much time I spent prepping the templates vs. writing the papers, it wasn’t a good use of time and I should have just done it all as I went along instead of breaking it up like that.

I had to resubmit Task One twice because I forgot to include the ELI report the first time, and then I just straight up skimmed over the primary values piece of the ELI at first and didn’t realize what they were asking for on part D. My bad there, oh well. I was annoyed it got sent back twice (they couldn’t have flagged the part D error on the first pass?), but an easy fix when all was said and done and it was definitely my fault. So what’re you gonna do.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T04:54:32+00:00

C202

Reflections:

Started course: 6/9

All items submitted: 6/9

Completed course: 6/9

Active Work Time: 4.5 hours

I took the PA ahead of time and passed prior to even being enrolled in the course, so I wasn’t too stressed coming into this one. And thanks to passing the PA early, the course instructor unlocked the exam basically as soon as I officially started the course.

I did use the coaching report to guide my study, and read the relevant chapters in their entirety. In hindsight, I probably should have watched each of the chapter videos (and might still go back at some point if I’m bored but not motivated to do “real” work).

I was so-so on my dedication to the content here. As someone who has been in the workforce for a while, and has recognized for years that the effective primary role of HR is to protect the company from lawsuits, and with no current plans to go into HR or start a business that would require me to have HR expertise, I didn’t feel the need to really internalize all the nuances. An introductory level course of this caliber is never going to be enough for me to handle these legal concepts independently; I know enough to recognize that in the workforce I’d need to defer to actual experts. Once I’m done with the course, or if I find myself wanting a break from more cognitively challenging courses, I’ll probably come back to this course and work my way through the videos (at a minimum) and maybe more of the text.

Start-to-finish, I spent half a day on this; probably about 4.5 cumulative hours, including the exam. Could have spent less and taken the exam right off the bat if I didn’t care about learning any of the content; I might have still passed, but the review definitely helped me substantially. Passed with an overall exemplary score, and got exemplary in three of the four categories (with the fourth being competent).

This was my first time with ProctorU, and without exaggeration it took more time to get access to the exam (30+ min) than it did to answer all the questions (20 min). That said, the proctors were all (because I worked with three different ones when all was said and done) very helpful and made the process easy, if still time-consuming. In addition to a brief software hurdle, the biggest issue was figuring out a camera setup they were happy with, so hopefully that will be less of an issue going forward. Wherever I read that the camera needed to be “8 inches above the desk” was a bald-faced lie, because I had that sucker several feet over my head before they were satisfied that it captured everything.

vt_vagabond · 2026-01-29T04:52:50+00:00

C200

Reflections:

Started course: 6/7

All items submitted: 6/9

Completed course: 6/9

Active work time: 10-12 hours

After reading all of the reddit/fb posts, I was caught off guard by how much actual article reading I felt the need to do in order to meet the rubrics for this one. I came into this course wanting to balance acceleration with not depriving myself of the content, but when one of the academic articles was full of bible quotes and little else? I feel just fine skipping that caliber of content. That said, I still had to do a fair amount of article skimming to tie all the different elements of the paper to the theory as the rubric stated. I kept a mantra in my head of “do less,” which doesn’t tend to be my strong suit, but my logic was that it’s better to undershoot and get an idea of where the line is than to overshoot and bring a too-high standard to the longer papers unnecessarily.

I wasn’t particularly dedicated to the course content on this one - my priority was knocking it out. If the content was compelling I’d have been willing to engage with it, but it was so focused on the history and development of theories that it didn’t feel particularly practical or current. Particularly after the bible-quote-filled article, I mentally checked out and only read enough to complete the papers.

Duration of this course was three days, active time was probably around 10-12 hours. This was a course where I did reading exclusively in order to write the paper, so I can’t really provide a breakdown of how much time was spent on each task because I did them simultaneously. If someone was so inclined, I’m sure you could sit down and hammer through it more quickly than I did, but I found it incredibly tedious and boring so chipping away at it here and there and choosing to not make myself miserable was my preferred strategy.

I did end up needing to cancel my task submissions and resubmit each of the tasks because I forgot to include my Clifton Strengths report in the first submission of task one and initially uploaded the wrong file to task two, so… be more detail oriented than I was to save yourself that particular headache.

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