I suppose that this should be on my personal blog but I'd have to write this in raw HTML, open an old FTP connection which I may, or may not, remember the credentials for, or use the cPanel which I remember hating. I'll do that at some point; for now I want an easy announce.
I'm dumping this year's courses. Yup, not doing any more, not sitting the exams. Which means that I won't get the named degree that I wanted. I've, in effect, bought a lot of very expensive set of books this year.
The beauty of the OU is that this isn't terminal; I still have 320 points [380 if you include the web apps.] of eight-year-valid courses. I can take a couple of years off and still get some degree. I failed in what I wanted to do but I can excuse myself because the game changed.
I feel; what do I feel? I know that I've made the right decision but it involves a whole lot of people-related explanation-rubbish that I'd rather have avoided if poss.. Others, get involved, and have kudos points, in my education. That's their problem.
I'm just tired and want to snooze for a while. Snoozing would involve playing chess/solitaire making lego-stuff watching the world of insects.
I'll come back to computers and having a bit of paper; for now I just want to look.
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Best wishes. I ditched my very first OU module ... and only returned after 9 years. In hindsight I'd have loved to have been supported through the mess at the time and at least submitted the final EMA and come away with a pass. Circumstances and situations change though. As for sleeping - I couldn't agree more.
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Glad you've made a decision you're at ease with. Named degrees, to me, are like 1st class Hons, nice but unless you're aiming for a top-flight career, they only produce bragging rights!
Find something that you'll enjoy to finish off your degree.
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You do what is right for you. It would have been lovely if you could have completed the course but if it's wrong for you at this present time then there is no point carrying on. Time to just be. I took a four year break from the OU for social/work/health reasons and have ditched courses for those reasons too. I knew when I made the decisions that they were totally right for me just as you know now that this is right for you. Good luck and hope to see you in blogland at some stage.