Further / Higher Education

I'm currently going into second year at University, and must admit that I'm loving it! I'm actually the geeky sort who enjoys it for the academic side of things and not the night-life, and I can even endure getting up at 6.30 every morning to make it in for 9am classes, but I often find myself wondering if all it is at the end of the day is just 4 very expensive years of fun and enjoyment. My sister is 4 years my senior, so graduated in the summer of last year. She was initially planning on studying English, but eventually ended up doing her degree in Philosophy. I was planning on doing an Archaeology ...

People to choose to undertake Open University (OU) courses for various reasons. Some go ‘all the way’ to a degree, and others take a course/courses, just to increase their knowledge in a particular subject. My own reason is probably peculiar, in that I worked in the same building as the OU, and used to have a look at their leaflets, on a regular basis, and this led me to finally fill in one of their forms and register. Even when I left school, I always had the ambition to return to study at some stage in my life, but the word University was not even contemplated in these thoughts, as I do not have any ‘A’ levels, and to my mind ...

After suffering a near fatel accident some ten years ago and physically fighting back to near normal , "what ever that means", i find myself in a perpectual limbow a sort of susspended amination You see my problems are no longer physical but mental I suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a relativley new complaint and what a complaint it is. I constantley get reminders of my accident and i can assure you that althogh i say my i have no affection for what has turned my life upside down and inside out. I wish i copuld be normal, i have normal feelings . I want to inspire my family, want to provide like i once did, ...