I'm going back to school

Loonball · Post by **Loonball** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:17 pm

Right i am 25....been to college more times than i care to remember and only actually completed 1 full year from about 6 different courses.

I havent been to college for a while though....i have been considering it for a while but impossible due to working hours etc...

BUT...i start an OU degree in June AND i am mega excited!!

mfa-polo · Post by **mfa-polo** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:49 pm

Good for you!

Im 27 and been messing on in education, for years! I'm now in my first year of teaching (poor buggers!)

Matt

Loonball · Post by **Loonball** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:04 pm

i'm doing social sciences so i will end uo doing something in the PR/Events management type business in the music industry

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:44 pm

cool man, lifelong learning

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:46 pm

Just make sure you get the support you need for it, if it gets a bit stressed - i'm living proof that college alongside a job can be a surefire recipe for stress and near disaster.

Thanks to the efforts of the fine, chivalrous people in the student support department of Peoples College Nottingham (who's help i rather reluctantly accepted at first as i didn't really go to them for help with the problems they ended up helping me with but other stuff), exams that I was really dreading have gone off ... well, not super smoothly or wickedly high scoring, but I reckon probably twice as good as they otherwise might. Extra time, tutorial support, study skills and organisation, all that kind of stuff, with reassurance of it being quite all right and not selling my course-mates out.

Still utterly, completely knackered and actually sitting here typing not really knowing if i'm awake or just having a truly bizzare dream, but not in bits as i would have been in the rather more psychologically stark culture of, say, bangor university.

Now get out there and kick some academic backside

Loonball · Post by **Loonball** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:22 am

Tahrey1043 wrote:Just make sure you get the support you need for it, if it gets a bit stressed - i'm living proof that college alongside a job can be a surefire recipe for stress and near disaster.

Thanks to the efforts of the fine, chivalrous people in the student support department of Peoples College Nottingham (who's help i rather reluctantly accepted at first as i didn't really go to them for help with the problems they ended up helping me with but other stuff), exams that I was really dreading have gone off ... well, not super smoothly or wickedly high scoring, but I reckon probably twice as good as they otherwise might. Extra time, tutorial support, study skills and organisation, all that kind of stuff, with reassurance of it being quite all right and not selling my course-mates out.

Still utterly, completely knackered and actually sitting here typing not really knowing if i'm awake or just having a truly bizzare dream, but not in bits as i would have been in the rather more psychologically stark culture of, say, bangor university.

Now get out there and kick some academic backside

I dont have to travel into college at all so i'm thinking thats gone take most of that potential stress away from stuff.....they think i'll need roughly 8 hours a week for the foundation course then 16 hours a week for the degree...which i dont think is a lot to ask....i spend that on the net usually so i may as well use my time doing stuff

Loonball · Post by **Loonball** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:27 pm

I just got my course stuff through....woopeeeeeeeeeee

Babe RuthLess · Post by **Babe RuthLess** » Sun May 15, 2005 11:18 pm

That's great news Loonball!

Good luck from a guy that's spent the last 7 years (since 1998) in University* and may the force be with you (I'm already in 19 May-mode)

*Economics (unfinished) 1998-2000 (3 years)
Journalism (finished!) 2001-2004 and Public Relations 2003-2005 (2 months to go!!)

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun May 15, 2005 11:39 pm

just be warned - sixteen hours is a hell of a lot more than you realise... be prepared for losing all forms of free time if thats what the requirement is, is what im saying.

all the same, give em hell

Loonball · Post by **Loonball** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:30 pm

Tahrey1043 wrote:just be warned - sixteen hours is a hell of a lot more than you realise... be prepared for losing all forms of free time if thats what the requirement is, is what im saying.

all the same, give em hell

I'm a saddo with no life, nothing lost!!!