We have a formative assignment due on the 16th of December which requires our full attention until this date. Thereafter we have 2 formative assignments due on the 8th of January which means that we will have to dedicate time over the holidays to study. While this is not usually a problem, third year students are feeling particularly overwhelmed by the course workload. To date we have have 8 lectures to educate us on each module but this year we have had 4 lectures only, but the same number of assignments. These assignments have not been spread over the year as previously, but are now compounded into the end of the one module.