New Uni starters 2015 (continued from Preparing for Uni)

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Thought we needed a new thread to continue from preparation.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/2466997-Preparing-for-Uni-in-2015-continues

Suspect all have arrived by now...

Is my DS the only one who hasn't sorted out any accommodation for next year yet? He has just had 2 weeks without any lectures but most of the other students on his course went home so he hasn't discussed it with them. I offered to pay for him to come home but he was adamant he wanted to stay. Think he regrets that decision now as he's been bored. I'm beginning to get a bit worried that everyone has organised accomodation with their current flat mates (he doesn't want to share with his as he says he prefers his course mates) and that's why no one has mentioned it in front of DS. There is an option of some new student apartments which are being built now to open in Sept 2016 but I think he would hate it there unless some of his friends go into that building too (it's not owned by the Uni so designed as campus type accommodation but not for freshers)

My DD also hasn't sorted out accommodation! She says she is not doing anything until she gets her exams results back in a couple of weeks time.

Has anyone's DC had exam results back yet? I hope they have all done okay.

Haven't heard about exams yet - well, DS might have heard, but he hasn't mentioned anything to us...

Dd had her exams in the second week of January and got her results almost straight away. She said they don't count towards the final though.

Horsemad 😄
Fairenuff DD's do count towards her final degree but I think quite a low ratio from the 1st year.

Sunday's are the day I miss DD the most. The rest of the week I am kept busy. Sunday's are when I generally would chill out with her and my other DD. DH is at work and DD2 has loads of homework and revision for her A levels this year.....and I am doing housework and ironing (or I should be)

We share a lot of the same taste in television shows, so I'm recording them to watch together when she comes back. She's coming home for the weekend next Friday just because it's been a while so we will have a good catch up then.

I am getting used to her being away though. Don't miss her as much as I used to. Not sure if that's good or bad

Fairenuff - enjoy next weekend. DD is coming home in 4 weeks for her birthday but I am hoping to meet her for a meal one evening before then. DD2 is going to stay with her next weekend as they have tickets for a gig.

Does anyone's dd/ds have plans for the summer yet? Are they hoping to find work?

My dd would like to do a season abroad, probably just in europe. Does anyone know of any websites to point her towards for student summer jobs?

Ok, this was what I asked DS in a text yesterday:

Me: Hi, what you been upto today? Any news on exam results or accommodation?

DS: Not much and No.

I give up...

Fairnuff my DD is currently working a ski season ( I am jealous!) and she got that through workaseason.com They recruit for summer seasons as well.

Horsemad that's more than I've had from DS.I've just had to send "please confirm you are alive" message to him. He is terrible at keeping in touch.

Dad is looking to get some work experience type of work over the summer - I know she has been sending her CV off. She will also either try and get some work in the shop she was in last summer or get some bar/waiting on work.
She text me on Friday to say she was visiting her boyfriend for the weekend. I text her earlier to see if she was back at uni yet but she says she is not going back til later. She is alive, well and happy.

Fartytette - I am jealous of your DD too, I hope she is having a ball!

I must send an 'are you still alive?' message to eldest dd.

DD2 is the opposite - chatty texts, details, skype calls, detailed plans, hopes...

DD3 says that she is the happy medium.

HourseMad. I laughed when I saw your sons brief response to your text. My DS2 has been known to respond to my infrequent and non-needy texts with a solitary K , presumably because texting OK would be too time consuming. He is not much better on the phone. Fortunately he has two very chatty sisters and happy-middle-ground brother.

Hmm, succinct and to the point, my DS!

It's lovely to have raised an independent person but I'd like some communication occasionally...

DS has been awarded scholarship money that he doesn't have to pay back... He will get £1500 at the end of Feb and £1500 at the end of May with a further £1000 in Yr2 if he keeps up to 70% of his studies (I bloody well hope he will be keeping up to 100%). He isn't going to get a job now his he?...

Horsemad DS's goes like "alright", "yeah", "no" and "not really"

Wow PUG, that's great re his scholarship money. Well Done to him.

Thanks Horsemad.

Fairenuff DS's plans are... to lounge about here until the first week of July when we move him into his house, stay there for a few days, get the train down back to us, come on holiday with us then go back up a couple of days after we get back and do nowt till uni restarts...

my DS is also monosyllabic on texts. Needs his space no doubt from missing him mum

Another week or so to wait for exam results and final marks for semester 1 according to DD. Understand they need to pass the compulsory modules and can only fail one in total. Also, in some modules, need to hit a certain mark to be allowed to choose dependent module next year. But acrual grdes don't count towards degree classification.

Actually starting to miss her more, perhaps because no planned visits home. Last term had a couple a specific things to come back for. Lots of communication though, has BF at Uni nearby so one less incentive for either of them to come home.

Can't see her being organised enough to look for summer work just yet. Suspect will get some shifts offered from her last year's part time job, as she did during Xmas hols.

Developments.

Sent dd1 an 'are you alive?' message. She has added a tagline to her skype status saying 'not dead'. Think that might be the best I will get. Exam results soon.

dd2 seems to have acquired a boyfriend just in time for Valentines day. I think I will be hearing from her a lot less now. No exams as yet...all coursework so far.

I also had to send an "are you still alive" text to DS the other day. In fact I sent a text - no response, a Whatsapp - didn't get read and finally an e-mail. Approx 5 hours later I finally got an "I'm fine" reply by text and he was seemingly bemused at my level of effort to elicit a response from him.

He has now rung and tell me that he has had his exam results and has passed them all. He really thought he had completely failed one of them but has managed to scrape a pass - just. He has done better in the other 3 though.

He seems to have been too busy to get in touch due to 're-freshers' week which seems to have been created after the exam period has finished!