The Journey Was Great!

Granite State College offers many of its adult education classes courses in a format called "weekend intensives". It's a convenient way to take a full credit class over a couple of weekends.

I took a number of classes for my behavioral science degree through this option. Each term a great number of classes are offered as weekend intensives. Frequently I was able to take a class that was scheduled for one night a week, along with a weekend intensive. It was a great way to earn more course credits and with minimal stress.

I found that weekend classes were usually intense but also low key. That may sound like a contradiction, but not really, let me explain. The classes that I took would typically meet first on a Friday evening, then Saturday and Sunday for a full day. There was usually a pre-assignment due the first weekend. Intense discussions and group work would be part of the class experience. New assignments or projects would be given that were to be completed before the next class meeting. Typically this second weekend would come a few weeks later. At the end of this last weekend there might be another assignment due, maybe not.

While that may sound like a lot of work in a little time, well it was. The assignments were usually pretty easy to juggle because of the time between classes. The great part was that the class time itself, while busy and involved, was usually structured in such a way that was pretty laid back. We were giving up our weekends in order to attend, but in its way it was very easy going. I found weekend intensive courses to have a very different feel than classes offered on the weeknights. The weekend schedule made it easy to take even when taking a weeknight class at the same time and the atmosphere in the weekend classes was pretty rewarding too.