Sigh ...

Many people have been using their blogs to vent their frustrations about the courses (much to my relief - that I am not the only one feeling this way). But up until now I have tried to keep the venting on my blog to a minimum.

Today has been a tough day, however. Not only due to the fact that I keep falling asleep while reading The Social Life of Information (which isn't even that bad, I am just that tired) but because I spent the day potty training my son and have had to clean up a lot of ... well, you get the idea.

The enormous amount of "information" we are expected to read, listen to, watch or just acquire for these courses is utterly mindboggling. Especially LIS 2000. Every week there are at least 10 required and recommended readings that I admittedly never get to, because all of my time and energy is being devoted to reading the books assigned for the reviews. I feel like there is no catching up at this point. LIS 2600 is suffering, too, as a result.

I honestly feel if there were only several articles assigned a week (in addition to the coursecasts, webcasts, blogs, and other assignments) that I may actually make an attempt to read them. But the sheer volume scares me into retreat. I even stopped printing them out. Sigh ...