could write about the exams that I'm doing over the next few days, the classification of my degree, maths, bananas or what it feels like to know that you are utterly stupid but good with computers.
Instead I'll tell you a story.
One time, not so long ago, after a maths tutorial we went to the pub, as we are want to do. We happened to sit by this old guy who seemed interested in our conversation. Our tutor arrived and greated this old guy like royalty.
Turns out that he'd nearly completed every OU maths course that is available, and as he had his TMA on-hand I suspect that he was pretty good at maths. He wasn't after a degree he just liked maths and had took it up like pensioners take up bowls or peppermints-in-a-bag.
I remember thinking that I wanted to be like that. I'm not, still...
At this point I could go a few ways with this argument, I'm going to go with the without the OU I'd be nowhere argument.
Tomorrow I sit an exam, not something that I am looking forwards to but a something that keeps me straight, a something I can't coast through, a something that gives me a real qualification.
I don't want to be useful to you, I want to know. This seems like a toxic combo to anyone who employs [exploits] others.
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combine stuff
I usually combine things of interest. There was little time for proper study lately and I decided to hit on my project-idea from last year.
There is a mediawiki extension called WorkingWiki, which allows you to not only write up [MathML|LaTeX] but even combine it with SageMath to run and compile i.e. Python scripts, generate graphs etc. in realtime like an IDE.
This will be my base for documentation, I love documenting stuff and write up notes on the OU material especially if I can use proper typesetting. Doing it this way, I learn about the subject while doing something that is fun (fiddle with software/hardware).
good luck!