Starting lectures at uni 2017

[HSMMaCM]

The other thread filled up really quickly, with exciting talk of laundry, mattress toppers and lost property.

Here's where the rest of them settle in, get through freshers and the work gets serious.

DD is at the end of week 3 of her first year. She's found the pace really fast moving and has spent several hours each evening making notes and doing prep for the next day. She's got a group of friends who are doing the same which is good. She reckons there's several people who rarely turn up for lectures or lab work, and when they do come now they haven't a clue what's going on. Awful when you think how much they are paying for their education.

I did feel a bit "private concierge service" in arranging and paying for the rail and oyster cards and rail tickets for them bu the impetuous is a family event in London they are kinding dragging back for the day next month to do so it was kind of for me in a way. I just had a long chat to one of them who seems really happy. I had no idea so many people smoked! My chidlren don't. Not a single one of their school friends smoked. I hope all these smokers he mentions won't persuade him to (he says not - he hates it but I am not to make no anti smoking comments when I visit him next month (not that I would anyway in front of his friends, of course I wouldn't)).

I asked dd today, and she reckons she is the only person she knows who hasn't already started missing lectures / seminars....... she's hardly got an ardulous timetable with about 8 hours a week!

DD has missed one lecture as she had to get a doctor's appointment, she hasn't missed any due to being hungover though - just on my instructions to see her GP.

DD missed one when her personal tutor told her he did not want to see her the morning after the paramedics visited. Apart from that as far as I'm aware she's been to all of them

DS hasn't missed any, even though this week he has been feeling pretty rough with freshers' flu. He dragged himself in this morning for a lecture which was actually cancelled as the lecturer had freshers' flu too! You'd have thought they'd be immune by now!

Morvah that's classic.
HSM quite right too.

DD missed a lecture which was an introduction to her subject aimed at people who don't have an A level in it; she does so I doubt she missed much.

(... impetus....kindly... I give up. Hopefully it is known what I meant....)

Mine missed 2 lectures today which he will watch but I think he needs to keep going to keep it up. He says he attends more than most. He says his brother is very keen and attending everything and also his brother won't be going on the ski trip at Easter they both wanted to go on as there is a course trip which is a shame as that brother is the better and keener skier but it's good he's putting his course first.

I can't see mine missing any lectures or labs. She phoned early this evening for a catch up, admitted to having been in a pub till midnight but it was after a dinner with all the engineers from her college rather than being her norm. Sounded a little weary, in addition to a couple of lectures she'd had over 4 hours of engineering drawing ('so many lines....')

Had a lovely evening with DS last night. He looks well, definitely lost weight but he'd put find on over the summer. He's not missed any classes but does admit to going to one drunk/hungover and just sitting and nodding with a coffee at the back of the room..
His room was ....oh dear! To be fair I did expect worse ...interesting to see that the clothes airer hasn't even been taken out of its bag, but neither has that box of condoms I sent him off with !
He's already started looking/thinking about next year with some of his flat mates (they're ok now) and his best mate on the course who is a girl.

I must have done the "girl ?? Raised eyebrows thing" that mums do. As he laughed and said before you start she's and extreme lesbian!! No idea what that means but he seem very happy and was telling us how they go out and she chases inappropriate girls away!! After the caos with his ex earlier in the year I'm happy with that. But he did admit to being on a dating website as a way to meet people...surely students just meet in the bar/union?
Was a lovely few hours with a fabulous Indian and lots of laughing. And he posted on insta some pics saying great catch up with the family minus DD!! So definitely a good night if we've been put on his social media story !

A number of friends off to see DCs during the half term break. We're not as DS only been gone 3 weeks and we have alternative plans. I must admit I am envious of those visiting this week but DS is very happy, eating better, loving his house and housemates and not only attending all his lectures/labs but also doing extra study groups with those on his course. Might fit in a weekend visit in mid Nov or I'll have to wait for Christmas.

I'm off to visit mine as I'm having an operation next week and will be out of action for a while, so taking the opportunity to visit him now!

Hope the visit and the op go well Headless.

Thanks Behind

good luck Headless.

BLeugh. Sorry I’ve been absent, I went away to the USA and have been putting Dd back together since I got back
She broke up with her boyfriend, she had major wobbles about her course, she got a parking space and no fob for then car park so was still stuck
Madness
Home now with me, I’m worrying about the ex boyfriend as he’s just such a lovely guy with slightly rubbish parents

Is she ok? Is she going back to uni?

What a pain about the parking space and the boyfriend. It just adds to their stress doesn't it

SHE WILL go back and I think it was all just too much for her. Boiling hot windowless kitchen, having to plan lunches, being a tad lazy 😉 not having a reading week etc etc
And then mum being thousands of miles away and in a different time zone.
Poor thing

Had lovely call from DS this morning. So nice just to have a natter. He’s doing fine. Hard work but enjoying it and keeping up. Going out quite a bit, found some fellow musicians, getting on with housemates.
I can’t ask for more.

I'm in the Gin Bar again! People watching (wedding on in hotel)

So good to read how they're all doing and have good company through this huge experience. Don't think I was really prepared for what a big change it would be and how much I'd miss her. Don't think there'd have been much more I could have done about it though - visiting her new student city with her for a few days summer project in her department was some kind of help for me as well as her.
But makes it so much better that she has been settling well and has nice flatmates. Also completely brilliant that I think she's coming home for a weekend quite soon! (early November)

Hi. Popping in for a bit of a rant...if you will indulge me for a few minutes. DS home for weekend as he had tickets for a local concert tonight. Logistics getting home were difficult as we have poor transport links and he couldn’t leave until after 1630 on Friday. So he had a 3 hour train journey with one change and we picked him up at a station an hour away...or it would have been 2 more trains and 2 more hours. We had a lovely drive home, he spent half an hour in the house before going out to see his girlfriend....and I haven’t seen him since!!! The swine!! I’m doing his washing ...fool. Hope he might turn up tomorrow...but I suppose I can always look forward to the drive back at 0430 on Monday. No doubt he will sleep for the whole journey.
On the plus side it was lovely to see him, he is happy, joining in...and not doing much apart from socialising.
Happy days

DS has bought me an enormous bar of Galaxy as a Get Well present.

He is fine, has settled into student life well and is enjoying himself.

We didn't see DD at all when she came home for a visit, which also involved some driving on my part. I try to tell myself it's a good thing.

Loving the bar of chocolate gift.

Dd has just arrived home for the weekend bearing a large bag of washing but also a bunch of flowers for me. I asked what she would like for dinner tonight and she replied 'anything but pasta..' 🤣

I will probably drive her back on Monday morning (about an hours drive) via a supermarket!