OMG - What have I done??!!

[lizzylemon]

Congratulations on making a scary but exciting and good decision. I can't add to the advice that everyone else has given, I haven't done any studying since school but I'm sure, loving your subject will help an awful lot and you'll be amazed at just how clever you are without having realised it all this time.

[SarzWix]

This is the English Language and Literature course;
B39 - BA (Honours) English Language and Literature - Open University qualification

and this is the first part;
AA100 - The arts past and present - Open University course

[zazen999]

Nice contextual first part Sarz.

Quite jealous actually....can you tell I really really loved studying mine?

[Polly Fouracre]

Oh! I do so admire clever folk! Go for it girl with all your heart and when you feel yourself flagging repeat the mantra "Boring job and minimum wage-boring job and minimum wage"
You can do it!!

[Flummery]

Good for you! You won't regret it. You can never learn too much I think.

[SarzWix]

I don't know if I'm clever or not Polly I guess this is the testing ground!
And I agree Flum, at the worst case scenario, I'll come out knowing more than I did when I started

I told the OH this morning, and he's very supportive of the idea, especially as it looks like we'll qualify for the financial support, for this year at least

[dexterdoglancashire]

Good for you Sarah! It's never too late to learn - and if you've picked a subject you enjoy, then it will be fab! Enjoy! Can't wait to see you in your cap and gown.
Love Bernie

[bobleponge]

Sarz, I left school with nothing but my cycling proficiency test, and I'm not really sure I passed that properly.
Many years later I have been lucky enough to have studied a subject that I loved in my own time and some fool even gave me a tick to say I'd passed my exam, and didnt even get a Desmond.
A truly rewarding experience for me, and gave me a lot of self esteem, which due to an upbringing I try to forget, I lacked totally.
I have no doubts that its the right decision, although agree totally with Manda


YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE HISTORY!!!

Best of luck though Mrs, enjoy it.

[SarzWix]

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I have no doubts that its the right decision, although agree totally with Manda


YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE HISTORY!!!

Best of luck though Mrs, enjoy it.

Aaah, but, that's the best of the OU, I can still change my mind The opening course can apply to/count towards either degree. It's got elements of all the arts/humanities subjects, so I can see if I'm particularly drawn one way or the other.

[zazen999]

All history is fiction
All fiction is history

Discuss.

[SarzWix]

LMAO

We had that debate for our History gcse

[zazen999]

Tis true though, so true.

[FionaH]

Only just read this. Sarz I am so proud of you!!
Of course you are smart enough. The last person who told me she wasnt smart enough for a degree just got a first class degree in Business!
I loved studying for my degree course. I left school with three O levels, and one of those was art!
I chose not to finish my degree but the sense of achievement I got from doing the first two years was huge.

Go for it girl.

Just remember RTFQ
Read the F***** Question

(thats flipping obviously)

[SarzWix]

Awwww, fanks hun Twas a conversation with your lovely self which triggered the sequence of events that lead to this
I'm still waiting for the paperwork to arrive, and quietly excited

Reading list

John O’Connor (ed.) Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus: the A-text, Pearson Longman

Paul Muldoon (ed.), The Faber Book of Beasts, Faber and Faber

Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes, Faber and Faber

Lynda Prescott (ed.), A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents, Palgrave Macmillan

I've found them all on Amazon already, they're sitting patiently in my basket

[shirlthegirl43]

Best of luck Sarah. The reading sounds too heavy for me but I was never into literature, just reading