This is about my Open University study!

A number of year back I was lucky enough to be allowed day release from my work and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University.

but due to the company I worked for at the time being taken over, i had to stop my study, unfortunately, I was not told at the time that i should transfer my study or at least get the credits for the work that I had already done to the OU, if i had done that at the time I would have earned more points than I did.

Anyway, my first subject with the OU was the T191 course, which is one of only two course which are needed for the B.Eng through the OU.

T191 is a course that feels strange as it is all about looking back at what has gone on in your life and how that has effected the choices that you make through life,

it also look to the future to where you want to get to in life, and makes you ask yourself what can or you are prepared to do to get there.

It also asks the question 'have you chosen the right course' but this was a process which i had already gone through long before I had decided that the OU course was my best option.

I am currently doing the T207 Engineering:mechanics, materials, design.

This is a good general Engineering course, but as it is general Engineering there are many unit which deal with structures and design of buildings, but i would say to anyone thinking of this course, although some of the material is aimed at structural Engineering you can relate all of the content to other areas of Engineering. Domes may suffer from 'Hoop Stress' but so too can catheters in medical applications.

In summer I plan to go on a residential course TXR220

Outside the OU.

I have also had the chance to study a two courses which were put forward by The Association of Renal Technologists

The first of these courses was a level 2 distance learning course through City University in London.

the second of these was an intensive course through Bradford University.