Post exam musings

So, that's the exams over for another year. Mmm, not sure how I've done. The S260 exam was lovely - I wanted to take the rock samples home with me - isn't that sad? We had a lovely granite and an oolitic limestone - and a thin section of garnet mica schist.

Ecology was another matter - what a strange exam paper. I got the impression the examiners had just run out of question ideas - as it was the last year of the course. One of the longest running OU courses - 32 years! Anyway, the essay questions were, well, rather vague. Which may be good or bad, depending how you look at it. I certainly managed to shoe-horn every concept I could remember into mine :O)

Anyway, post-exam lull now. Only not making it such a lull. Determined to be better organised next year (not doing as many courses, so should be relatively easy!), so already making a start on pre-reading!

Oceanography (S330) and the Geological Record of Environmental Change (S369) next year, plus associated summer school (back to Durham!).

OMG! Where did the year go?

Ok - so I've been particularly rubbish at this blogging lark... but WTF did the year go?? One minute it was April - and now it seems to be pumpkin time...

Well, I suppose we need a potted history of what's happened since April. Well, let's see....

Um, well I went climbing in Provence (hurrah!) - to the very place illustrated in the banner above, in fact. Lots of lovely limestone - and wine... Then I came back, did lots more studying, and trotted off down to London for my brother's wedding - and then came back and then went off to Durham for the geology summer school. That was much fun - very hot, great beer and lots of rocks - what more could you ask for? Um, then came back, did more studying, then went off to Ireland for round two of the wedding (blessing) - came back, and went off climbing in Burgundy - hurrah! More lovely limestone and wine.... Then had lots of assignments to get in, then lots of revision, and then exams and then.... it's all over now for another year....

Well, that'll be where it went then... oh well.