I know a lot of people are studying and/or will be starting studying in September so I thought this may be a good thread to have for them to recieve support and chat with others in a similar position.
I also had the idea of having a little bit of a 'Uni student thead' reunion as it used to be a really active thread and I, for one, am very interested to hear how everyone is getting on now!
So, enjoy and say hello or just tell me this is a dumb idea. Either/or.
<3
Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table
- T.S. Elliot
I'm technically only a student until the end of October, but I'm so close to giving up I thought this thread might be helpful for a month and a bit lol.
Studying nursery teaching - currently on placement with 3-5 year olds, enjoying it but it's hard doing it in bubbles (although there are advantages). Shattered all the time, fed up of having to use my weekends for working instead of hanging out with my flatmate/friends. There just isn't enough hours in the day lol
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That’s awesome Lio, how are you feeling about it? Have you studied with the OU before?
I’m excited! I did my maths degree with the OU but I was so sedated and mental I don’t remember any of it.
So I’m excited to do a degree I might remember :P
'It's an impossible choice ... I'll just have to hope that when I flip the coin it somehow explodes and kills me.'
"You're not scared of climbing mountains. You're scared that you can't make them move."
It's been really stressful tbh Alison. I'm expected to start doing stuff in person soon too and not really okay with it even though I understand why it is necessary. It doesn't help that all the campus parking passes entirely sold out before I could get one.
Are you all doing things entirely online or will there be irl things?
Please do not give me virtual hugs unless you are only using the hug function on threads. Thanks.
You can't always keep it separate.
This is happening, this is part of you.
Everything is back to irl things here, I'm glad. I missed being out on placement last year, it was almost impossible to do stuff theoretically on imaginary children. Its much easier irl, especially since they're still in bubbles (less fights!)
I could do with some cheerleading guys. Now I've finished my graded unit, all I have to do are like little bits and pieces that won't take long, but I can't motivate myself to do them. I'm trying to tell myself that if I can do an 8,000 word research paper, I can do smaller essays and stuff but my brain is done. I need to email 2 of my tutors too to find out exactly how much/what I need to do and I'm putting that off, should have done that as soon as we went back. I don't know why, but the smaller bits are the hardest to do.
Small stuff can often just seem really overwhelming to me too. It sounds like maybe the easiest thing to do would be to email your tutors and see what they say? I'm happy to read over emails for you before you send if that would help?
Please do not give me virtual hugs unless you are only using the hug function on threads. Thanks.
You can't always keep it separate.
This is happening, this is part of you.
I've managed to finally do a little bit of coursework. And good news, I decided to check the parking website, and they put some parking passes back up for sale so I was able to get one for the garage closest to the building I need to be in!
Please do not give me virtual hugs unless you are only using the hug function on threads. Thanks.
You can't always keep it separate.
This is happening, this is part of you.
I'm also managing to do a bit of coursework since I came up with a plan with submission dates, but today its proving hard. I said I'd get my pioneers essay in by 5pm on Friday, but I don't see that happening. WIll just have to try my best.
Well done Camden! Glad you managed to get parking permit. Parking at our campus is so expensive without one.
Iamcatbug - I hope you manage to sort out the essay we're not talking about, and glad you got all your first choices.