• veee@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    I wish I had the time to read in college. Between assignments, classes, presentations, and working two jobs reading for me was the stuff of fiction.

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      9 days ago

      Yes, for me this is a much greater factor than attention span.

      Reading The Illiad over the next three weeks on holidays, oh nice!
      Reading The Illiad over the next three weeks while having a lot of other assignments from different classes, fuuuck me…

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      9 days ago

      The article points out that the problem exists in a literature class, where well, you’re expected to be able to read a complete book in some week in order to analyze it. That’s literally the course.