I Got It! It's Education!

Since dropping my quantitative statistics class, I am faced with three courses that require me to write long papers on research topics. Don't get me wrong, this is kind of exciting to me. But I wanted to be strategic about this, and not have to start from the beginning. And by start from the beginning, I mean check out a gazillion books from the library and download articles so I can read about something quickly enough to write coherently about it. This is just the nature of the program. However, now that I have one semester under my belt, I have done a lot of reading that, well, I wouldn't just want to go to waste!

Unfortunately, I am the type of person that has too many interests. I know many people suffer from this, and I am trying to wrangle it so that I don't have to start over every time I begin a new class. One of the skills I am learning is developing questions to link the areas of knowledge together. That way, I may only have to backfill the things I don't know, while also using the things I do. It's rather difficult, however, because my brain sometimes goes into extreme web-making mode, and when I write my ideas down and look for the threads that link them, oftentimes after an hour all I'm left with is "What links these ideas together is .... (drumroll) Education."