Now I'm going to go through my parcel and make sure that everything is there.
Practical Kit first - This is really nice! A box of assorted rocks and fossils.
One immediate annoyance - the prism comes in a small zip lock bag that is taped to the lid so it won't get lost in transit. But trying to remove it, the tape was so strong that the little bag just ripped right across.
Ah well, a minor irritation, nothing more.
Contents of my little kit:
There's a 10x folding magnifier, a bunch of rocks, fossils, a set of litmus papers, the aforementioned prism, which isn't a nice triangle, just a lens, but that's ok.
I'm very used to prisms - I wear prism lenses in my glasses to correct convergence issues.
I am VERY impressed with this little kit - it's really nice. It also reminds me of GCSE Geology, which I quite enjoyed. When I was 6 I wanted to be a paleontologist, so I love fossils and that kind of thing.
On with the parcel!
My books are all wire-bound for ease of use.
Book 1 - Global Warming.
This looks quite interesting - whilst at Reading Uni we did a project each of the two times I attempted the foundation year, about global warming and especially renewable energy. For the second go around, I did a very interesting project about the bad side of renewable energy. Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY much in favour of renewable energy, but that was a very interesting project!
Book 2 - Earth and Space.
This is split into two books, which will make it a lot easier to carry around.
It looks like a LOT of work. Two books means much more in this section.
This looks really interesting - the earth part of it looks like geology, and the space part looks like astronomy which is what I really want!
Book 3 - Energy and Light.
Yay physics!
A single book.
Book 4 - The Right Chemistry.
Another one split into two books.
Book 5 - Life.
Another one split into two books.
Book 6 - It says that this book will be sent out later on in the course.
Book 7 - Quarks to Quasars.
I know just from the title that this is going to be the best section for me. As I'm planning on studying Physics with Astrophysics (using the Open degree to personalise the modules)
Though it'll be a close tie with the Space section of book 2!
Book 8 - Life in the Universe.
This looks like it's mostly about the origins of life, and how life can cope with different environments.
There's a fair bit about extraterrestrial life by the look of it. I'm hoping it'll be about moving life to other planets as well.
It's quite a small book though.
DVDs.
Well they both work ok, and it looks like they've got activities for the course on them. That's quite cool!
The only thing missing is pdf versions of the books, which I asked for so I could read them on my kindle if I'm having trouble with the physical books.
I'll contact the distribution centre and see what they say.
So, that's that - everything it says is in the parcel is in the parcel.
This makes it a lot more real!
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