You are not unique. I much prefer studying at my own pace, too. I found class timescales so demotivating I dropped all the Coursera courses in favour of the Ud

You are not unique. I much prefer studying at my own pace, too. I found class timescales so demotivating I dropped all the Coursera courses in favour of the Udacity ones as soon as it became obvious other things in my life would keep getting in the way.