Feeling the pressure.

Comments thin on the ground again, I'm afraid, as it's 'full steam ahead' to finish the work for my current course.

I am around three weeks and 2000 words away from completing what will entitle me to claim a BSc degree in Natural Sciences. I've still got another year to go to get the 'Honours' bit so I wasn't planning on claiming it yet but I think maybe I will, so I will be able to truthfully say 'I have a degree', even if it is about 25 years late and not yet fully finished!

I know I will enjoy my final courses next year but this year has been a pretty hard slog and at the moment I just want to cry. It's been such hard, relentless work. In the three years since the idea first popped into my head I've no doubt burned a few bridges - definitely let a lot of people down - and neglected many things I shouldn't have. Many times I've sobbed to my husband that 'I can't do it!', to which he always replies 'If it wasn't hard, it wouldn't be worth doing'. Not so sure about that!

It's alright for all of those clever academic types, but that's not me - none of this has come easy but it has been a wonderful, truly life-changing experience nevertheless - much as the Open University's motto suggests.

Will it be worth it? I guess I'll just have to wait and see.