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AndyPretty much a solid day studying. A week ahead, and started prepping my next assessment, though I still have a practical to do.
I have enjoyed the last two topics a LOT, especially astrobiology and planetary science. I was getting really carried away looking through open source exoplanet data to find potentially habitable planets in distant star systems. Enough that I looked into maybe switching pathways, but the maths remains too intimidating.
Alexis BushnellHas anyone here done a psychology Masters or Doctorate with the #OpenUniversity recently?
I'm wondering if their postgrad programmes are better than their undergrad, and thus whether it's worth seeing if I can switch to a postgrad with them.
Have sent off applications to London & Essex for undergrad too.
Brunel they won't accept me for the conversion MsC as they require an undergrad degree. But she said that there are Psychology Masters courses who would accept me without a degree.
so it wasn't great but in good news she went through some feedback with me and confirmed my "this is bullshit" opinion of it.
So I have just emailed my tutor with basically a take down of their feedback and a bunch of questions given my next assignment for that module is the same thing so I need to know WTF they are marking for.
I am forcing myself through this absolute hellscape of an #OpenUniversity assignment.
Tutor replied to my email without answering the question I asked in it.
My student mentor says the assignment and info around it is awful.
My friends say the same.
Someone who took the same module before said the same and that they have had complaints about it.
And yet here we are...
NOW I know what a carbonaceous chondrite is. ๐ At least in passing. It was touched on in a section of my current studies re: panspermia.
Gotta say I'm really enjoying planetary science. If my maths skills didn't suck, and I thought it would be useful in the last few decades of my working life, I'd consider switching Natural Sciences pathways..
Goal for today to, hopefully, get me closer to finishing this assignment without crushing me with stress:
- write methods section (which is just a copy paste thing basically).
- write discussion section (which should help me feel better cos I can tear down how bad and pointless this study is).
Will have to wait for a reply from someone after the weekend on what the rationale for doing a study that's been done better in all ways multiple times is...
Uni continues to be intensely distressing, not because the academic work is hard but because I am consistently up against everything being designed for NTs.
This assignment is to write a research report, something I did at GSCE with zero problems. I even did the fucking experiment myself for GCSE!
But for this they have drip fed incomplete info, hidden some essential info in a "recap" section, and expect us to reverse engineer a report from the results data.
Finished writing up my definitions from the last few weeks. I'll have a tidy up tomorrow, maybe go a bit wild with the highlighter pens, get a small assessment out of the way and then on with...
...is there life on Mars? ๐ฝ
Looks to be quite a bit of organic chemistry, molecular biology, some physics, talking about denaturing proteins and stuff like that. Fun and familiar. I have to say though, I've really enjoyed the climate and Earth Sciences I've just finished.
oooh I am studying synaesthesia for uni this week and it is super fun and I love brains so much!