I'm woefully behind with my maths course—no units done and a TMA due in the next couple of weeks. Not panicking yet. If only because a couple of the units are, mostly, about something that I've done before, done during the building blocks of software; a course now sadly gone.
Which got me thinking—does the OU do computer science? The sad answer is no. I'm doing the degree, a discontinued one, that most nearly approximates to computer science in real-world terms but it isn't really computer science. And when I've finished my degree there's nowhere for me to go in the OU.
My current courses are number theory and software development, number theory is about the most computery science thing that I've done in ages. Most of my computer courses have been about writing code or designing systems, which I want to be able to do but which has never been my main focus. I can always learn to write code and who really wants to create a system?
Don't get me wrong—I have learnt a lot, it's just that I've realized that if I want to take my personal madness forwards I'm going to have to do it outside the OU, bereft of the discipline of tutors, exams, TMAs and fellow students. Which is a wee bit sad.
Still, I expect that I'll always have a course on the go here. So all that is needed is that I stand on my own brain for once.