I didn't think I needed a plan B

My "7 year plan" has been smashed to smithereens.  The OU have announced the withdrawal of their Social Science Postgraduate programmes which has put a serious spanner in my works.

Here's what I think about it.

Resolutions schmesolutions

I hate New Years Resolutions.  Here's why

Resolutions Schmesolutions

Our American Cousins

Over the Crimbo holidays I was delightfully alerted to a tiny snippet of information in a mass email received by my dad. He’s very supportive of my studies and when I told him I was going to be writing for Platform he promised to keep his eyes peeled for relevant things I could write about.

Now, this tiny snippet said:

“Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans.”

Shocked?  Read on about Our American Cousins

Carrie on Christmas

In an effort to prevent my blog just being a weekly ramble on about all and sundry I decided to write a Christmas poem.  Here's my effort:

Carrie on Christmas

HOLY POTATO!!

Despite having blogged for Platform since August and despite some of my posts having attracted a few comments I've never really thought that very many people actually read it.  I just always thought that plenty of people would click through to it, far more than would comment, but then they'd get bored after a couple of sentences and go elsewhere.

Well it seems I may be wrong...  A post I did recently on the weighting of TMAs to exams has, to date, attracted a whopping and pretty mind bloggling 92 comments!!  Granted a couple of them are from me but still, that's phenomenal!!

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read the blog, and even bigger thanks to those who took the extra time to comment.

Left is clearly right

I'm a leftie.  A southpaw.  A sinistra.  Call me what you want, I'm proud to be in the minority of people who are left-hand dominant.

I happened to notice in my recent O U exam that there were a lot of other lefties there too so I wrote a blog about it:

Left is clearly right

In which I play Devil's Advocate

I never intend to cause controversy, but I often think people don't fully understand the concept of playing devil's advocate and try to argue with me on topics saying they disagree with me...  Well if I'm playing devil's advocate then you can't disagree with me because it's not my opinion I'm giving.

My newest blog post is about the rise in tuition fees and in it I do just that - put forward the argument FOR the fee increase.  It's not my personal opinion, just a look at the subject from an alternative vantage point.

As an ex-philosophy student I'm very much used to having to argue a side I don't agree with.  Here it is.

In which I play Devil's Advocate