Introduction

If you have been following one of my other blogs (http://vagabond-round-britain.blogspot.co.uk/) you will realise that I am engaged in a course of study at University College, London (UCL) towards gaining an MSc in Science Technology and Society http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/. It seemed a good idea at the time - it would get me away from the ghetto of similarly greying (or greyed) males, forever talking (or playing) golf or bridge or discussing the twin P's * or how the world was much better then **. I also thought that it might keep Mr Alzheimer at bay, although I now discover that there's not much scientific evidence for that (needs citation as they say in Wikipedia).

I originally intended to be a full time student - until I saw the work load expected. 'I'm not in a hurry' I thought, 'I don't need this for a career - so I'll do it part time - over two years'.

One of those has passed and I'm now in the final year. I've done four modules so far, learnt a lot about facebook (but still not about how it selects the posts for you to see...) and a little about twitter (I don't know why I bothered), and have not been surprised about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. I have four more modules to do, followed by the dreaded dissertation - 10,000 words of stuff about something I have researched for myself.......Yikes (as they say)

When I commenced the course it had not been my intention to blog about it and have managed for a year without changing this intention. However, I find that one is required of me as part of one of the modules I have chosen to "do" - sorry, I mean study. So, as with my sailing blog, the goal posts have changed.



The first real post has to be published by the end of this week........

By the way, for reasons that escape me, this blog is time-stamped in Pacific Standard time - can I use that to my advantage when submitting it for marking?


Notes
* Prostrates and Pensions
** insert your own value of then