I have recently star­ted study­ing a 3-year part-time MSc in Digital Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­nic­a­tions. The reason I chose to do this was because I felt I have worked in the digital industry since 1997 and because I have been self-taught all this time, per­haps I would bene­fit from some focused learn­ing in this area.

So, hav­ing gone through the induc­tion, received my core text books and then promptly hav­ing to work over­sea for nearly two weeks, I found myself in the pos­i­tion of try­ing to catch up with the weekly activ­it­ies that had been set by my tutor. Even though par­ti­cip­a­tion wasn’t man­dat­ory, I wanted to get star­ted. How­ever, I really under­es­tim­ated the bal­ance that is needed to allow myself time to study as well as carry on with work and fam­ily life.

I’ve found myself really strug­gling, not just with simply read­ing the texts, but with re-learning how to actu­ally study after all these years. So I will try to organ­ise things more and really get stuck in.

Any sug­ges­tions on study­ing skills would be really appreciated!