Don't they want me?

I started the registration at the OU. Yes, I bit the bullet and tried to register for 'What is Science?' Hopefully I have some idea of the answer but I want to take this one slowly. The system told me that I had been a student before. Well remembered after about 6 years. And then said I needed to contact them before I could register. Do they not want me back?

Is my brain sharp enough?

I have been trying to do the Today programme 'Puzzle for the Day'. About patchwork quilts. I know how to work out the area of the quilt and even the probable side lengths but I have no idea how to actually assemble all the different sized squares. Does this mean I am too old and stupid for astrophysics? Are there quilts on Mars?

Can I still do Maths?

With a Maths degree, they might not expect me to do the introductory Maths courses. But my A levels were in 1969 and my degree in 1972. I looked at OU assessment exercises for maths. Some of it I can still do (algebraic manipulation). Some of it I can do but painfully slowly (about half of the rest). And some I have done in the past but can't remember anything about. Eigen vectors, anybody? I need to do all the maths courses because I want to feel solid at least at that part of the course. And I would be humiliated if I had problems with Maths on the higher levels of the course.

Restart

I have not been blogging because I have not really been doing anything much. (Apart from a long holiday on a cruise round South America - see my other  blog) But that has to change. The current plan is that I have gone as far as I am likely to with the humanities and it is time to go back to Science. I haven't been involved with Science since I first graduated in 1972. So it is a bit daunting.