Gailerina,
I'm glad you're interested in coursera as I was when I discovered it at the beginning of the year.
I just wish I knew about it earlier, to satisfy my interests when I left work years ago,since there is a void sometimes. On the other hand, maybe it's just marketing?
What I really feel I need might be some connection, and their forum might do it for me, but not now.
Right now, life has too many pressing daily survival needs, like caregiving, so I can just window shop, and build my list of desires. One course which might feed my boredom with cooking though, is the one on child's cooking.
It's like the biblical saying: "....Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body...".
It's so hard to focus sometimes, since there are so many distractions from the things which need to be done, that sometimes I "freeze".
The root word of anxiety, I noticed, includes "choke", which reminds me to act, so I can get going. It's like writer's cramp.
I hope you continue to share your academic success, even small ones, like assignments, since I get some satisfaction from even knowing someone else is succeeding, even though we don't really "know" each other, aside from occasional posts.
I guess that's why spectator sports are so popular?
Good luck.