The perpetual student
Wendy reckons that I’m turning into a perpetual student with signing up for yet another degree just after I’ve completed one.
In practice, I don’t really think of the course starting in February as the start of another degree at the moment although having said that I have gone as far as allocating it to a psychology degree. Separately from that I’ve also run up a list of all the courses from the current prospectus that I might like to do and that equates to about three degrees and something like 20 years odd of courses.
Will I do them all though? Well, I won’t be able to do all those on that list for the simple reason that they won’t stay on the prospectus for long enough for me to do them all. However, I’m sure that there’ll be equivalent courses that’ll come up and presumably there’ll also be courses that I’d like to do which aren’t in the current prospectus. Of the three-ish degrees I’m not sure about the psychology one right now but I figure that I’ll get around to the physics degree in due course as it’s been on my to-do list for getting on for 20 years now.
One thing that’s encouraging me down this route is “wee Stuart” who was well into his 80s when I was starting off on the modern languages degree and died during the second of the French courses. Despite his age his mind was far more active than the rest of us and his fluency in French was miles ahead of everyone in our study group. I don’t know if it was the French that kept his mind active but I’m sure it played a part.
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