Enrolled
There was some quiet time while I thought it over. Decided whether I truly wanted to follow a second degree. With a baby and a toddler, I didn’t want to take on a big commitment only to have to abandon it part way through.
I did a credit transfer application with the Open University two months ago and I’ve been waiting to find out what the results were before I could go any further with enrolling on this new degree. This is my second undergraduate degree, and I also have a masters in Archaeological Information Systems (in plain English, that’s computing, applied to archaeology, so things like database management, VR modelling, designing reconstructions of sites etc).
They got back to me last week and I spent four hours on the phone last Wednesday getting enrolled. They said I would have an exemption from the first two modules of their cybersecurity course — meaning I could finish first year by September 2023.
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I did also have an exemption on the maths requirement, because I’ve previously studied MU123 two years ago, which is the Open University’s basic maths course. I was going to use this for my maths requirement for BSc Cybersecurity, but then I realised I’d be selling myself short. See, I found MU123 didn’t go into as much depth as I wanted, so I decided to go for MST124, Essential Mathematics, to study for my new degree. This would give me a much stronger foundation on the mathematics that underpin the more advanced computing studies, I was certain of it, and I looked forward to stretching myself.
I’m also studying Technologies in Practice.
The books for it arrived today. I was expecting textbooks (the maths modules both had a doorstop-sized wedge of study material) but all that showed up was a copy of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
Okay. This isn’t going in the direction I expected. I’ve actually already read I, Robot (and The Rest of the Robots, which was a set of short stories about other robots, also by Asimov) but it was quite a while ago. I love crossover where the boundaries between study disciplines are thinner, so now I am very interested to see where this course is going.
I shall keep you posted.
