Going back to college.

It's been seven years since I've been in school. I was supposed to start school in the Fall, but I figured I'd take an online class to get me back into the swing of things. The first week stressed me out,the teacher had all these questions put up and I thought I had to write a paper for each of them. Some of the questions just didn't make any sense to me.I almost quit but I ended up calling some friends that are in school and they helped me get myself together.I found out later that there was only one main question to anwser and all the other ones were just to think about while your reading.It was a relief.My only bummer is that when I'm reading for class,i can barely keep my eyes open.I have to take brakes between readings. Why is it easy to read a romance novel ? I know ,theres a happy ending to look forward to. I've found my Homework reading is mostly papers and excerpts from books that don't have an ending. I'm going get through this class slowly and surely just like the turtle.