Coursework Time Management Dilemma

I am doing an online course through a different university in Astrophysics because the PhD program I want to get in to requires you to have credits in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. I have the Biology and Chemistry (Biology of Florida Plant and Animal Life, Introductory Chemistry, and General Chemistry 1 (+labs)), but the Physics course I took was only given as "Credit" under a Natural Science listing, so instead of taking a general Physics course, because they are boring, I am taking Astrophysics. To be honest, part of the reason is for the title (Astrophysics sounds way cooler) and part is for the PhD (it's a Planetary Science program).

However, I am now in the second week of the course and we have to complete 3 sections per week. Each section has around 8 video lectures and a question to complete for each lecture, worked examples, practice problems, and required homework....FOR EACH SECTION! At three sections a week, I'm struggling to do anything else and with my courses starting in September and the required field work where we will be away for several days every month, I'm concerned I'll fail the course simply due to a lack of time. It doesn't help that a bunch of the arithmetic is skipped or glossed over during the videos so I'm having to learn the math and the physics at the same time, but the sheer quantity of work is staggering.

I'm just not sure what to do. I want to complete the course, but I also do not want to sacrifice my actual required coursework for the credits...and I still need to study for Statistics.

Critical Thinking & Internet/Life Skills through the Game of Life

The last few days I have been planning my holiday trips and I realized that the skills I use to find locations, make judgments on hotels, budget flights and food, plan my activities, and pack my bags are all things that students in high school are not taught. However, these are not just important skills for planning a trip, they are the foundation of how most of us 'adults' deal with our day-to-day lives.

Environmental Science: Global Owl Project

           I attended a training on how to construct artificial nestingboxes for Burrowing Owls. The training was led by David Johnson from the Global Owl Project. The first artificial nesting boxes (1977) were just that, plywood boxes with tunnels that had a 90 degree angle in them. They worked, but had issues with water seepage, inability to maneuver easily and no way to see if they worked. Mr. Johnson’s design uses flexible 6” drain line (10’ long), half of a 55 gallon barrel, hardware mesh (3’x4’), a tube of liquid nails, and two Letica 3 ½ gallon buckets. Since the liquid nails needs to be spread on so thick, he recommends leaving it to dry for three to four days. These nests should last 10 years and as long as you do not clean them out, the owls should return again and again.