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On my last maths TMA.

I've long since given up on the idea of a good degree, I haven't worked hard enough, I'm too stupid and what I set out to achieve, classification wise, was too hard.

Still as I struggle with, what will probably be, my last ever, maths TMA, I'm filled with a certain pride. I rather effortlessly proved that

∀x∀y((x′•y) + 0) = ((x′+ 0)•y))

For some interpretation.

I still have my first ever maths TMA [for MST121], not a pretty thing, I can see that I've come far since then. I'll never be a mathematician but I never wanted to be one. All I wanted was enough maths to understand the weird computer blogs that I haunt.

That job is done [-ish].

So I've done what I wanted to do, I didn't do it as well as I wanted to do it but I've spent four years doing something that I found hard without sneaking off. If I'd been able to do that when I was twenty...?

I will cry when I submit this TMA; I started out to do computing, maths crept in, maths has changed the workings ways of my mind; I am a different person because of it. I want to think that I am a better person for it. Which might, or might not, be the case.

Whatever. Without the OU this would never have happened to me. Which is why the OU is massive. For you, for me and for everyone.

Which is why we should shout loudly about the fact that it is going to be priced away from the average peon,