Well, Miles has finished doing his exams for this year. It started last Tuesday when he had a three-hour paper to do in the Thistle Hotel in Middlesbrough. He was very excited not least because he has thoroughly prepared as usual but come 5:30 p.m. when he finished he was so excited that he kept on gibbering away about all of the questions reciting bits of the paper to me and his answers as well has his possible answers as I drove him to the skate park in Redcar. That got my head buzzing and I was way too excited when we got there! It took a bacon butty and a Pot Noodle to calm me down. He did his second three hour paper yesterday and was much more level about the whole process. He expressed a lot of enjoyment just about the hotel and the design of the building which reflects his interest in urban environments motivated by his continuing development of his Lego skills. Whilst I think it is good to retain the child within he did something yesterday I was pleased with when he simply abandoned me to my book before the exam started and went and introduced himself to the other budding mathematicians most of which reacted in horror when he started bubbling away about the questions which he thought were going to come up and and how easy or hard they may be. One of the guys took a real shine to him and they had a good discussion. Must tell him that it is good to not hide his light under a bushel but also don't burn too brightly because people may feel scorched.Mmm. It was great to see all of these people most of which were over 50 improving their lives with education. I got talking to a lady who was doing an exam in Environmental Science as part of her job. At the end of the exam I spoke to her husband who told me that she had done another exam two weeks earlier. The firm she worked for in Teeside takes the education and training of their employees very seriously which is most excellent. Well, his academic year is over and it is interesting that he only has seven more exams to do and then he will have graduated completely. There was not much pressure on him really because he has averaged over 90% in both of his courses this year and in order to get a 2.1 he just has to get 70% or over in the exams and those scores will enable him to progress to where he thinks he wants to go which is Masters and then PhD or maybe even straight into PhD. I call that the "poor route" because he will be a student until he is around 25. If he went straight into secondary teaching he would make it a lot more money. I suspect in the near future it will be any female in his life that puts him on the track towards fulfilling his potential completely as a human being which isn't just about career fame and fortune.