My second term in UoPeople
My second term in UoPeople was so hard and frustrating because I’ve taken two courses. In UoPeople, A student is expected to study 15–17 hours per week on each course, so I had to study 30 hours per week for two courses. The courses I’ve taken are basic courses, so I haven’t spent 30 hours per week, but I would have spent 20 hours per week. This amount of study was a burden and frustrating me because I didn’t do anything I want, which is reading books and programming. It also affected our performance of my work.
The courses I’ve taken were “Online Education Strategies- Univ 1001” and “Programming Fundamentals (Python) — CS 1101”.
- https://www.uopeople.edu/prepare-for-university/online-education-strategies-univ-1001-learning-materials/
- https://www.uopeople.edu/prepare-for-university/programming-fundamentals-java-cs-1101-learning-materials/
Univ1001 was a bit hard because it requires to write many essays and reviews, but some topics like time management and note-taking were helpful for studying in a college. I always fought against minimum word count requirements :)
CS1101 was easy for me even though I have never used Python for my jobs. It is a fundamental concept of programming, so which programming language is being used was not a concern for me.
From the next term, I’m going to take only one course each term, which means that it takes eight years to graduate a college. It is definitely long, but it makes sense for me because I have many things I want to do other than graduating a college.
The course I’m going to take in the next term is an advanced course of CS1101, of which programming language is Java. So I’ll focus on studying English during the term because I believe it is the most effective way for my career. The lesson I’ll take impose on me to studying at least two hours every day, and it might make my next term harder than the second term, but it is exciting for me.
