I appear to have an unconditional offer to study Bristol's MSc in Palaeobiology, starting this September.
Yup, I am most definitely leaving my comfy career to freefall cheerily without income.
So now I just need to do up my house sufficiently to sell it, actually sell it, sort out somewhere to live in Bristol with three elderly cats, oh and finish the two OU modules I'm currently in the middle of.
WHAT DO I THINK I AM DOING?!?!
Given that it was the first assessment submitted for the course so I didn't know how my tutor thinks, and I wasn't at all certain of a couple of my text answers, I'd convinced myself to expect about 78%. As it was, the problem wasn't the text answers; it was a couple of my hallmark silly mistakes in things I knew well. Those moments of what-was-I-thinking drive me almost as mad as they have driven many teachers and tutors over the years; and I never seem to find them when I'm checking over my work.
Still. I really want to get a good grade in this course, given how much I have always loved astronomy. And maybe I can
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