Taking gen-eds this summer: man I miss my engineering courses

I have to take a world history class and a political science class over the summer and boy do I wish I could just do some math.

We've got two timed essays for exam grades and there's absolutely no information on what to study other than reiterated section headings. I've got no idea how to break the content down and it's giving me major task paralysis. I've gotten into a groove once or twice but at that point I'm taking notes on every tiny detail and that takes forever. No idea how to find a middle ground here.

At least with the engineering classes I can get my hands on a subject and work with it until I hit a wall, and then readjust. Here it feels like I need to digest all potentially relevant information and then begin to break it down...

Should have knocked these gen-eds out earlier. Can't wait to get back into the swing of things this fall.