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Category Archives: Open University

Study

When I was younger, I couldn’t have cared less about education. I didn’t like school and accordingly education could whistle. As I got into my late teens, I discovered that if a subject interested me I could study it and study it to a greater depth than was required to pass exams. I enjoyed university, [...]

Exploring Psychology

The course material for DSE 212 just arrived. Once I’d got over the weight of the package, I opened it to discover that it consists of a number of large text books, a couple of DVD, CDs, software and the usual assorted paraphernalia - part threes, course updates and errata. Looking over the course material, it seems well structured [...]

The final push

I haven’t really written much about my studying with the Open University but someone recently commented on blogging their experiences throughout their courses and there might be some mileage in it.

Discovery

Today I discovered several things. First, the Open University’s Using Mathematics (MST121) software is in Java and runs just fine under Ubuntu – Thunar was perfectly happy with the addition of “open with: java -jar %1″.  Second, despite having enjoyed this course up until now I have today cultivated a morbid hatred for statistics.  Thirdly, [...]