I love learning things, I find interest in most things so learning something is always a pleasure. I always have a constant desire to know more, doesn’t matter about what, I just wish I knew more.
Falling ill just after my GCSEs I missed out on college and university so learnt the things I’ve learnt over the last eight years on my own initiative. I often think about studying from home with something like the Open University but I’ve never been able to work out what I’d like to learn. It’s quite expensive and can end up quite specialised so, being rather picky, I want it to be something I’m going to really enjoy as I find learning much more interesting if it’s something I’m really interested in. I’ve gone through many of my interests and tried to think of courses that would suit but still haven’t settled on anything.
Tonight I’ve been having another think and currently have lots of ideas flying around in my head, revolving around physics, mechanics, ballistics and engineering but also spinning off into planetary sciences and astronomy. Ballistics is catching my attention most as it’s something I can apply to my shooting in the future. My only concern is my own intelligence when it comes to the mathematics side of it. I’d like to think I can learn and understand the equations but having been out of the maths game for about eight years, I fear I’m a little rusty on all the things I once knew.
Has anyone used a home-study programme such as Open University before? If you have I’d love to hear from you.
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I’m doing my second OU course at the moment, it’s one of their short courses in Science; not too much to make me feel overwhelmed, and just enough to get me really interested. My first course was Fossils and this one is on nutrition – the other thing I like is that I can pick and choose at random but ultimately they’ll count towards a degree in the end. The other thing that is rather cool is that you can do them over 10 weeks (which is studying at the same rate you would for a bigger course) or over 20 weeks so that you can get into the swing of it.