October 17th, 2009 |
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I’ve officially been studying with the Open University for two weeks now, and the time has flown by! I’ve been to my first tutorial, and started work on the first assignment, and I think things are progressing nicely!
I struggled slightly when I reached the beginning of the second unit, (the Representations unit). I worked through the harder parts of that unit though and started to enjoy the work towards the end. I’m now working on the 3rd unit (Crossing the boundary: Analogue universe, digital world). I’ve definitely enjoyed it much much more than the previous two units. (The first was just an introduction and was slightly boring, the 2nd a little harder to get my head around as it didn’t appear at first to have much relation to computers, and the 3rd unit I’ve enjoyed much more, especially the binary section).
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October 6th, 2009 |
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Another blog entry! 19 days to the start of my course. My mood has changed slightly from overwhelming excitement to slightly nervous! I’m not sure why to be honest, i think it just dawned on me that I’ll be starting University and will be working towards a degree! Is so far from where I’ve been at in my life the past few years. I never thought I’d be preparing for study at the Open University, thats for sure.
Slowly more and more of the StudentHome website is becoming available to me, I’m now able to read over the course materials online (the material I’m waiting to arrive in the post). I haven’t given it too much of a read, as Ill do that when it arrives in the post, but has been good to see more in depth what each unit is going to contain.
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September 12th, 2009 |
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I was pretty overwhelmed the first time i logged in to the student section of the open university website. There was so much to take in, and such a wealth of information, i just didn’t know what to make of it all. After a brief moment of ‘Panic!’, i took a deep breathe and looked a little more closely at the StudentHome front page.
The StudentHome recommended i read through ‘New to OU Study’, so i decided to take some time out to read over everything so i could orientate myself to the OU and to work out what to expect.
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