Foreign Perspectives

In the relatively slow summer months the chats on the Open University forums tend to wander well off the topic now and again and sometimes come around to what people are thinking of doing over the coming winter months.

Chats like that can go just about anywhere as people chip in with their own plans with the current “in” topics being multiple degrees and ebook readers.

Surprisingly it can be rather easy to pick up a second degree depending on what your course choices have been. For example, if you do a purely biological degree it’s usually a matter of two more years to pick up a chemistry degree because many of the biology courses are also chemistry courses thus in my own case it looks like about one more year will be enough to do the trick. Similarly the physics people often consider adding just a couple of courses and picking up a maths degree which works because they need to do quite a lot of maths courses to be able to do the physics courses.

As for the ebook readers, well a combination of them being considered a “good thing” and Amazon dropping the price to £109 has led to quite a number of orders being placed. Now, if only they’d waited for a few months and seen the colour version on the horizon. Still, that’s next years Christmas present sorted 🙂