OK. So last night I realised that I have no idea what I want to do as a career following my graduation (albeit a long time away), then I started to think about what MEng/MSc program I could study & at what university maybe I'd want to study at. This lead me to realise that the modules I want to do for my final year with the OU aren't like GCSEs were you can do anything and it won't affect your life if you maybe pick the wrong ones. I realised the modules I do will determine what postgraduate course I'll be able to study which will determine what careers will be open to me.
So I started looking at different postgrad courses to get a rough idea of what their courses contain. I thought some of the OU modules which I'll be doing sounded hard.. Then I read these for an MSc in Nanotechnology... :'(
Makes me feel totally inadequate. Do you think it's actually possible to go from an OU degree into something like this?? It must be hard cos it's with UCL and applicants only need a 2:2...
Core Modules
Physical Science for Nanotechnology
Nanoscale Processing and Characterisation for Advanced Devices
Instrumentation and Physical Techniques in the Life Sciences
Experimental Techniques for Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology and Society
Nanotechnology in Healthcare
Options
Nanoelectronic Devices
Quantum Computation and Communication
Order and Excitations in Condensed Matter
Molecular Biophysics
Molecular Physics
New Technology Ventures
Plastic and Molecular Electronics
Physics and Optics of Nano-Structures