When I was doing full-time levels of coursework, it meant a much heavier amount of assignments to have to churn through (plus twice as many "substantive comments" to post to other students' classwork), not to mention the frenzy of completing two totally different final projects every five weeks. (And I was only doubled-up on pairs of really easy courses -- that's wouldn't have always been the case if I'd done that throughout my program, and there'd have been times when I'd have been dealing with two difficult and highly technical courses.) But it does mean getting done in half the time, and if you don't have many other commitments on your time, it's probably worthwhile.
I guess that'd be good parameters for deciding whether to start in October or January too. Do you have things going on in Oct/Nov/Dec that will mean that you can't do coursework? (But it's a good excuse to get many of the "to-do's" on the posting above done before the coursework begins.) ;-)
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Date: 2009-09-10 07:30 pm (UTC)I guess that'd be good parameters for deciding whether to start in October or January too. Do you have things going on in Oct/Nov/Dec that will mean that you can't do coursework? (But it's a good excuse to get many of the "to-do's" on the posting above done before the coursework begins.) ;-)