Foreign Perspectives, Relocation guide

Doing chemistry (S205) in the computer age

From Foreign Perspectives, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

After getting over the mountain that was the S204 exam, I feel that I’ve been really getting into the chemistry course over the past month or so. I’ve the third assignment away this morning and it’s the first one that I feel reasonably confident about (though ’til the results come back it could easily be false optimism). Interestingly the biology course is proving increasingly useful as the course moves more into proper chemistry or rather moves away from the largely... Read more

Interresting ? 0

A sensible pass for S204 (biology)

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

As usual, the Open University results were in earlier than planned so yesterday I found out that I’d passed S204 and was well clear of 40% too. Just as well really as there’s no way that I’d have been able to fit in even more revision for the resit in April. From the 297?students around 50 will be eligible for a resit though I suspect that there will be a good deal fewer than that who will actually do it as the revision is something of a nightmare in terms of sheer volume and... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Adjusting to a new subject

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

I’ve been plugging away with biology for a couple of years now. Starting from scratch, biology was seriously difficult at the start but a couple of years down the line I’m thinking like a biologist. Thus, despite having done quite a lot of chemistry a long time ago, it was a bit of a jolt to restart the chemistry straight after the biology exam. That said, the resulting mark was slightly higher than the biology marks. What’s quite noticeable is that I’m getting back into... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Tidying up the finances when someone goes into a nursing home

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Mum’s journey into a nursing home was largely unplanned for and constantly suffering from delays on the part of social services but she’s been there for several months now. That’s created a much greater involvement with social services and social security than we’ve had up to now and it’s something of a nightmare on the whole. First off, the financial assessment people want a whole bunch of information about her finances. That sounded like it would be simple when... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Recession or depression'

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Nobody is openly calling it a depression but then it’s a difficult call to say whether you’re in a depression or not when you’re actually in the midst of one. Aside from the obvious financial difficulties that a growing list of countries are finding themselves in, signs this time around are seemingly all around on the smaller scale too. The list of bankrupts seems to be growing although that’s not really a terribly reliable sign in these days of financial... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Picking up sketching

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Whilst playing around with book borrowing on the Android, I came across a brilliant little book on sketching: You can draw in 30 days. I’ve always meant to learn how to draw properly and this book is just the ticket for that. Each lesson takes around 20 minutes or so to do though there are supplementary exercises that would double that time if you wanted a little more practice. What’s really amazing though is that after only a couple of the lessons, the sketches begin to look like... Read more

Interresting ? 0

The first autism (SK124) iCMA

From Foreign Perspectives, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

This is the first course where I’ve had an iCMA to do. In principle they’re the same as CMAs but, if the first one is anything to go by, they’re much shorter (only four questions), you have to do them whilst you’re online and you can’t print them out to mull over. Shorter is certainly good. There are five iCMAs and an EMA for this course which looked like quite a lot of work. In practice it took about 10 minutes to do this one so hopefully the remaining four will... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Starting off on the autism (SK124) course

From Foreign Perspectives, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

I’m doing this one basically to ease myself back into the psychology and a brief leaf through the DVD last week showed up a whole bunch of relatively familiar terminology. This is one of the new-style online tutoring courses which in principle should be excellent but, so far, they don’t seem to have hit on a totally successful formula for them. The problem is basically that as the tutoring is done in a course-wide group, they need everyone to be moving along at roughly the same... Read more

Interresting ? 0

So what will happen with Greece in the end'

From Foreign Perspectives, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The basic problem that Greece seems to have is that it has never really properly adjusted from the days when it could devalue the Dracma every couple of years. In such an environment, you don’t really need to worry too much about creating a real economy as you can always pull in more tourists by reducing the value of your currency every now and again. Since that hasn’t been an option for ten years, what they did instead was to borrow more and more money to balance the books until... Read more

Interresting ? 0

On to chemistry (S205)

From Foreign Perspectives, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Despite downing tools with everything except preparation for the biology exam for the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to remain broadly on schedule with the chemistry reading so far. Unfortunately, there’s quite a lot of stuff to be done on the DVD as well and some of that is required for the first assignment due at the end of next week so I’ll need to get going on that. What has been useful is to have read over the first couple of course books earlier in the year so at... Read more

Interresting ? 0

Foreign Perspectives, everything about moving and relocation

Blog