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Looking for some advice on if I should start this course or not, pls help my dudes. Does it look legit? It's open university. 3/6 years of my life I don't wanna get meme'd. I can provide more info.

Does anyone else have a natural science degree? or completed a science course with OpenUni

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I should probably add that I'd be going on to do a chem masters, at a real uni...

>> No.9759104

>If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.

>> No.9759118

Nobody does masters anymore, just jump from honours to PhD

>> No.9759123

>>9759064
Go to a real college

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>>9759123
I work 100% better on my own, can't really concentrate in a class room, never have since high school where they stuck 40 unwilling apes in a room and expected them not to throw their shit at each other

>> No.9759139

>>9759136
then go to a real university and work on your own
nobody is forcing you to attend lectures if you're to intelligent too learn in a classroom

>> No.9759146

>>9759136
I agree with >>9759139

I got an A in my chem class and I didn't go to lectures. If you have to go to lectures just go and don't pay attention and learn it on your own. But you don't want to skip labs, and that necessarily involves working with and around others. If you can't do that then you can't do chemistry.

>> No.9759150

OP
I KNOW A LOT OF PODPLE WORKING AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

IT IS IN CRISIS AT THE MOMENT
DO NOT ENROLL!!!

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>>9759150
Thanks for the tip, how bad can it get though? it's been around for decades right?

>> No.9759178

>>9759118
Is this an anglo thing?

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>>9759118
more on this pls

>> No.9759190

The maths course is quite good, can't say about the others though.

>> No.9759192

>>9759176
the current vice president is a moron, he came from the BBC and knows nothing about education. FutureLearn is losing them millions upon millions, and he won't cut it off because he reckons that's where the world is going.

If you're after the same experience you would have had 10 years ago, you're not gonna get it. They're moving towards computers far too aggressively (honestly learning from textbooks is so much nicer) and the tuition costs are increasing fast to make up for the loses. The tutorial system is falling apart since they gave all the backend server work to the pajeets to write. I know cuts are hitting the humanities far worse than the sciences, so I'm not sure how severe it is for something like chemistry, but be wary, there is nowhere near as much funding as there used to be.

>> No.9759238

>>9759139
>nobody is forcing you to attend lectures
Quite a few do actually have minimum attendance for some courses.

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>>9759238
>Quite a few do actually have minimum attendance for some courses.
Yeah in UK you have to have a certain attendance rate or else you fail the course.

>> No.9759272

>>9759064
OU doesn't seem like a good idea if you want to practice chemistry.

>> No.9759904

>>9759178
yes