Foreign Perspectives

Although this is only one of the short courses it’s one of my key ones as I’m using it as a trial to see if I can remember any of my A-level chemistry from years ago. Moreover, it’s a kind of bridging course with mostly chemistry but bits of biology too.

It’s my very first course with one of the famous Open University “kits”, in this case a little kit to build models of molecules. It looks like it’ll be a lot of fun so I’ve hidden it from the kids. Aside from that there’s the usual check list and course text plus a couple of audio CDs which supposedly no longer included with this course.

The plan is that I put this to the one side and don’t look at it ’til I’ve the astronomy exam out of the way but I suspect that I’ll have a peek at it before then. For sure I need to get the three remaining TMAs out of the way first though as two are due in a few weeks time and the other way too close to the astronomy exam to even think about not doing it now.

Somehow or other I seem to have almost completed reading through the course books for S103 and have just started into the final one for now which is on fossils and geology generally. Surprisingly I’m finding it very interesting and it has me thinking about going for the final run of the fossils short course over Christmas.