Foreign Perspectives

One of the problems that I have in choosing which courses to go for is that a number of those that I’d quite like to do fall into the category of “difficult” for one reason or another.

In some cases that’s not so bad I can, for instance, work up to the astrophysics course by starting with a very doable maths course and working up to astrophysics itself via a series of stepping stone courses. So, in principle, the astrophysics is quite an achievable goal for me. However, some of the other courses don’t have those easy stepping stones and, for example, the human biology course that I’ve pencilled in for next year looks like it will be rather difficult in a number of areas. The snag is that in that particular case human biology is itself the stepping stone that I felt I needed for biological psychology which I’ll be doing in a few years time.

One plus point is that, at the moment, the most difficult courses seem to be 30 pointers rather than the 60 point courses that I’ve been doing the last few years. So, in principle, if I do hit a really rough patch with one then I should be able to devote more time to it.

Still, if I was able to manage level 3 French, I’m sure that I’ll be able to get through a couple of level 2 biology courses.