Platform has three blogs on the site - go check 'em out!
There’s Carrie, Platform’s student blogger who’ll update you on everything from TMA versus exam weighting, the highs and lows of studying, joining a student protest, OUSA and how she’s dropped out a few times along the way.
"I dropped out of school at 17, halfway through my A Levels and got a job. I’ve worked full time ever since, but when I reached 23 I enrolled with the OU and started on a journey towards the degree I’d never stopped wanting. In 2009 and aged 29 I realised I didn’t want my journey to end and formulated a new plan which includes a masters, a PhD, research and whatever else I might be able to cram into a journey now held under the umbrella term “lifelong learning and ongoing self-improvement”.
- Read Carrie's bog - Carrie on being a student
There’s also Steven Primrose-Smith, a student with a difference. He’s studying for two OU degrees while cycling 31,000 kilometres across 50 European cities and trying new foods as he goes. It’s a three-year challenge and he’ll be updating Platform on his travels.
"This life is damn short, and it can be snatched away at any given moment. Whatever it is you want to do, just do it. Don't hang around. In other words, literally or metaphorically, get on your bike!"
- Read Steven's blog - The UniCyclist
And there’s also our Society Matters blog, edited by Dick Skellington, featuring posts by a number of authors on the things that happen and matter in society. Guest bloggers, academic bloggers and posts by Dick himself. Dick, previously a programme manager in the social sciences faculty, and actively involved in the affairs of his home town of Stony Stratford, Bucks, finds light relief through the theatre company he helped to form.
- Read Society Matters
Or if you have your own blog and post about OU life and your studies, why not let us know and we’ll add it to our blogroll on the right hand side of this page. Just email us - platformeditor@open.ac.uk - and let us know where we'll find your blog.
