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Gaining weight on a weight-loss programme!
Now that we’ve really started to ramp up the exercise aspect of our weight-loss programme we’re at the point where we’re hitting the buffers on the actual weight loss since the muscle that we’re building is heavier than the fa...
Onwards and upwards with the psychology course
Somehow or other I managed to pick up 78% on the latest assignment which is pretty good going as initially I hadn’t a clue as to how to properly approach the semi-essay part of it. It was quite a strange kind of assignment as it was largely bas...
Building a support network for the psychology course
One of the essential things to do early on in starting an Open University course is to get yourself into a study group. Although there are regular tutorials associated with the course there tend to be quite a lot of things that don’t come up du...
Wow are some courses popular, or what?
One of the biggest surprises that I had when I started the psychology course this year was the sheer number of separate tutorial groups that it has in the area. Previously with the language courses it was one group to cover the whole of Ireland where...
I must stop browsing the prospectuses!
I’m something of an addict to browsing university prospectuses though sometimes it’s quite a while between getting the thing and getting around to signing up for a course. Last time it was all the way from picking up a prospectus around 1...
A big jump in the workload for the ED209 psychology course
I was doing quite nicely pottering along with the child development course this last couple of months and keeping my one month lead-time on the official course calendar until now. However, the next section of the course on the personal and social dev...
Can you get too much information about a course?
One of the big differences between the language courses that I’ve been doing over the last seven years and the psychology course that I’m doing at the moment is that there are a whole lot more people doing it: around six times the number ...
Do labels really change how you see your status?
Frankly I figured that the relabelling of “unemployment offices” in the UK some years ago as “job centres” as just a PR gimmic by the government but it would appear that there’s a little more behind it than I’d th...
The gender mix of courses
Clearly there are topics that are largely of interest to males and those that are largely of interest to females but which is which isn’t always as clear ahead of signing up for a course as you might expect. For instance, languages are usually ...
Spreading out the psychology books
I’ve been plugging away with the language courses from the OU for, it seems like, forever now so I’m finding it a bit of a jolt to get into the way that their psychology course works. Since it is psychology the education psychologists hav...
The psychology course
After much debate last year I finally signed up for the psychology course which I’ve just started looking at. So far, the biggest difference is in the organisation of the materials. Whereas the language courses were essentially organised around...
The course is on the way
For a change, my aunt got going and has posted the first raft of the psychology materials to me so, all being well, they should be with me in a few days time. Whether I’ll get much chance to actually look at them before and during our move is q...
A wide range of online courses from a growing selection of universities
Once I’d the modern languages degree nailed down I thought I’d have a look around for what was available to do next. My first look was at what was on offer from the Open University and it’s a pretty substantial list of courses under...
Finally my 2009 course is chosen
Since about November last year I’ve been thinking about what course I might do in 2009. Up to this point it’s been pretty easy to choose in that I was sailing along the path of the BA (Hons) Modern Language Studies since 2002 but that shi...
Plugging away at the German course
For a variety of reasons I ended up learning Spanish rather than German years ago with the effect that it’s only now that I’m getting around to starting on the German. As expected, it’s easier to pick up than either French or Spanis...
What course next?
Although I never thought the day would come when I’d be talking of completing my modern languages degree, I find myself on the final course of that at the moment. That means that after six years I am in the position of looking around for someth...
Picking up speed on the English course
Although the English course that I’m doing at the moment has the reputation of being the hardest course in the university, I’m finding that as I go through it I’m picking up speed and seem likely to get to the end of the course some...
What course next?
Somehow or other I seem to be about to run off the end of my modern languages degree and have started to think about what I’ll do next. I’m not quite sure how I got to this point as all I really wanted to do was to be able to speak French...
Thinking of running an intern programme?
Intern programmes are something that sounds like a whole lot of trouble for very little return to many employers. That’s far from the case in reality. Sure there’s the hassle factor of bringing someone into the company for a short period ...
