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It's the new educational year - are you starting a course?

Starting the second year of my English Literary Research MA :eek: :cool: This is the one in which I actually have to write my dissertation (double :eek:)
 
kalidarkone said:
I have 2 weeks left on Central delivery suite-from next week then into the second year of a midwifery degree-this year is high risk year:eek: Within that is a complimentary therapies module, research and medical disorders as well as being back in central delivery suite, on the ward and in community.

Looking froward to Uni time and seeing all the girls.

I could have really done with more then a 3 week break!!
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When i had our little one, I was diagnosed with cfs.. The midwife on duty, had no idea what cfs was.. She also wasnt sure my waters had broke.. yeh i wet my self all the time.. ffs!

Anyway, luckily there was a shift change, and my actual midwife, who i had been seeing came on duty.. within 3 mins we had an advance midwife in to see me, and they couldnt find my case notes.. (they were on the consultants desk i was early...but full term)

Anyway... when the anesthatist came to see me, he went WHITE.. I smiled at him, he swore.. and walked out the room.

10 mins later he returned, said... hello mrs thought.. how are you.. and then told me he was slightly shocked at seeing me, as the last two times he had been my enethatist he had ended up nearly killing me :d I said i know.. But I am VERY glad its you, because anyone else wouldnt believe me!

(both times had been for very minor treatments)

So i had spinal block.. and could feel almost everything at some level.. but hey.. I am alive and didnt need resus :D

So make sure you really listen to your clients.. they do know there bodies best... and enjoy the course, disability and pregnancy has to be one of the most interesting and challenging aspects of it all... I couldnt get to any of the groups for example as they were all of a morning.. I used to violently throw up all day, untill around 3 pm... No it didnt just happen the first 3 months!
 
I'm only doing an evening class - printmaking. I'm very excited as it's years since I've done anything like that. Starts next tuesday. :D
 
1st year of BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media for me! it starts next week, after working for years i'm nervous as hell.. Excited too :)
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
I'm thinking of doing an MA in Law and Development. The website says there's no limit on numbers, so the course won't be full. But I'm not sure if I've left it too late to apply for this year. Will phone tomorrow and find out. I'm not working at the moment, so don't know whether to do it full-time, or whether to do it part-time and try to get some freelance producer shifts or a part-time job, or do some freelance writing.
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Well, the past couple of weeks have whizzed by - induction week starts at 11am on Monday. :eek:

I can't believe I'm going back to school! :D
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
I can't believe I'm going back to school!
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Well done and good luck to you and everyone else on the thread. A few weeks ago I couldn't have got excited at all about someone putting themself in for further academia due to being too emersed in the end stages of it. However, having just got to the other side and finally feeling relaxed about it, I can vicariously feel excited for other people getting back into it. :)

Education seems a bit like childbirth. Painful at the time, but afterwards the pain just fades away, and you only recognise the positive outcome of it. :cool: Or should I not say that on this thread where people are starting/continuing it? :hmm:

May Kasahara said:
This is the one in which I actually have to write my dissertation (double )
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If my experience is anything to go by, disserations are horrible until they are written, and then you think "that wasn't so bad", and you also hopefully have a fantastic piece of work that you feel proud of by the end. A year goes quickly, which is something which is both :eek: and :).

idioteque said:
MSc in Global Environmental Change, so long as I get my loan form sent off and approved ASAP.
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Ah, so you've decided to go for it this year then? I remember your previous thread. Hope all the funding problems have found solutions.
 
I'm starting an Italian course (part-time) at the Uni of Westminster this Monday...I need to learn it for work (and for pleasure too hehe) It's only once a week, so that should be a nice break from the usual work routine :) I'm so looking forward to it!!!
 
May Kasahara said:
Starting the second year of my English Literary Research MA :eek: :cool: This is the one in which I actually have to write my dissertation (double :eek:)
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I can't imagine having to have written a dissertation when Rosa was Joe's age. I didn't have the time with working at weekends, but my head wasn't /still isn't up to that kind of sustained and organised thinking. I intended to write 3 essays last year for my never ending pre-clinical child psychotherapy pgDip/MA, which then became 2, and then 1 and in the end I actually managed to do about 1/2 an essay, if that. So this year I have 4 to submit, and this is my final year :eek:

I am actually attending seminars again this year, which will give me some motivation. And I need to be very organised with my time and actually work at weekends in dedicated study time. God, I feel anxious :(

Good luck May!
 
Noooo this will be my first year since age 4 that I won't be in some form of education. I want a loan now dammit lol! :D
 
Though not as lofty as most mentioned here i have started a NVQ - level 2 in maths (i did not get it at O level) as it is free through work !
 
Brinxmat said:
Tell me more.
I've got one more year of my BA in Lit and then I want to do the MA in Creative Writing.

Where? How? When? Etc....:D
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:) Well I applied everywhere, quite a few London unis do the MA. Chose to go to Goldsmiths, as their creative courses seem quite well respected, the tutors seem well published, and I liked the feel of the place. But a couple of the other unis were verrrrry tempting. For example a couple concentrate purely on 'The Novel' whereas the one I'm doing includes a bit of poetry and life writing.
Erm, starts in about a week. Am scared, was last at uni 6 years ago. Eep.
 
good luck to everyone starting or started a new course.

I have just started an Access to Literature, Sociology and History course at college. Am going to to a Degree next year in History and English so four years of study
ahead of me! *phew* what hard work I have ahead of me. My college is great, in a smallish town in Suffolk, where the people are nice, all the georgous people you
would love to meet and they are nice to you! :) Lecturers are great and really look after you. I have been diagnosed with CFS/ME (the doctors cant make up their minds!) which makes study hard but not impossible.. so wish me luck!

R
 
First day at uni yesterday.

One of my seminars was so appallingly bad I nearly walked out in disgust, but the second one was excellent and there's some good sorts amongst my fellow students, so I think it will all be OK.

Getting a bit scared about all the reading now though... :eek:
 
I'm in my 4th week doing access to arts & social sciences. It's going pretty well.

I was sure I'd already posted in this thread. :hmm:
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Ah, so you've decided to go for it this year then? I remember your previous thread. Hope all the funding problems have found solutions.
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Thanks! Yes I decided to go for it, my induction day is tomorrow, I applied for a Career Development Loan- whilst I should have done it earlier and got a definitive answer by now, I am confident I'll get it, and be able to pay my fees in time :D
 
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