Fighting our way through 1st year uni (starting Sept 17)

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Continuing the previous thread.

Exams, assessments, essays, etc.

Support, or lack of it.

Will they all get accommodation for next year and can they cook a balanced meal yet.

Exciting ono40. I'd love to go to China.

Still no summer job for DS. Local supermarket turned him down! I'm hoping this is only because he decided to be upfront at the interview about the fact that he would be on holiday for most of July.
Local recruitment agency hasn't come up with anything although they were very gung ho when he went in for an interview 2 weeks ago.
I suppose he's going to spend most of the summer playing Fortnite, watching the World Cup & Love Island.
I'm not happy. But he's 19, I can't force him to find work, can I?

So glad dd has a job she can come back to. We worked out she needs to earn quite a bit as she has two lots of rent before the next loan and to pay for our holiday. Luckily she can choose which days to work but there's not going to be much money for socialising.

He is home! Stepped off the train looking like a model in his suit - had been to a party last night. 😁

He's brought barely any clothes back and what has returned needs washing, so the machine is on already!

Enjoy having your ds home Horse

Thanks Haffdonga 🙂

DD did her induction for her new job at the weekend and has a 9 hour shift today. She had to do some work online first and says it's like being back at uni. They offered her a weeks forklift training and she turned them down. Crazy girl .

Accommodation finally booked!

That's a relief Horsemad.

Yay Horsemad! Definitely time to relax and enjoy having him home again. Going through all the uni thing again with dd2. She's just found our she qualifies for extra time in exams so I think she may seriously be considering an Oxbridge application.

Had a lovely phone chat with DD last night and looking forward to going to see her next week, and bring her and her stuff back after first year!

Apparently things have been fraying a bit regarding Uni flat relationships as they get to the end of the year, but I said they did well to get through the year as amicably as they have. We agreed it's disappointing when someone turns out to be not that nice after all, but I don't think it's been too personal to DD which I'm glad about. I knew the flat had already split somewhat into two groups, but was hoping everyone had someone and people still able to get along. Seems recently it's not been quite that good.

Everything still all set for second year flat though, with several friends from this one, plus one extra person chosen by landlord ( so slightly random, but hope it works out)
And first year exams all went OK she thinks, first one the best of the three.
Hope we have some sunshine next week for our day at the beach!

DS confided his flat had split into two groups, and neither group had spoken to the other since November!

His 'take' on it was that they were only children who found it difficult to compromise.
No idea if that's true or not but I explained we spend our whole lives working with people who are different to us and not to expect it to be any different when he goes back into halls in Sept.

Just to add, I found it surprising as he is generally quite easy going and gets on with most people but it is obviously a different matter when sharing a living space.

DD said she and her housemates were not as pally as they were to begin with by the end of the year. No one was really awful, which was lucky, but they were starting to grate on each other's nerves a bit by the end.

All fine here.
DS1 has secured a job for the summer, but is still having some interviews in case something better comes up. He has some gigs with his band in the coming week so hadn't planned to start work until next Monday anyway.

He's been here, there and everywhere and I'm loving having him home.
He's matured.

Still enjoying this thread. Dd has a minimum wage job at the golf club.

Anyone else struggling to find somewhere to store all the crap they have come home with?

Dingit DD moves straight into her new flat, so nothing came home. It would have taken at least 2 car loads I think.

DD has two big fitted wardrobes in her room. They are both completely full, as in you couldn't even squeeze another pair of socks in there.

She says she is going to have a clear out

Currently the guestroom is absolutely packed with stuff which is gradually being put away. I am very much hoping that nobody wants to come and stay just now! I can’t believe how much there is. DS has got a six week internship starting in July which he‘s looking forward to.

Yes, storage issues here too....... I had cleared one storage cupboard of about 2/3rd of the old junk in there this year and now it's got all the stuff from the cupboard in a spare room (all the sports stuff neve rmind 3 tents and all sorts of balls, rackets etc) one twin moved into (my twins shared a room until they went to university, by choice/inertia) so that relatively empty space has gone.

We have a few lovely people staying and another coming tonight too. We were almost back to the numbers we used to have (used to be 7). One starts a job tomorrow. All going well. I think the results of year 1 exams are out in July and I have loads of work but that's not a problem.

It's not too bad here. DS did actually have a massive sort out of his bedroom over Easter so his room is pretty bare when he's away.

I have a garden office so some stuff (bedding and kitchen stuff mainly) is in there.

Dingit, my dining room is coming down with DS' stuff. I moved him into the smaller bedroom when he left and moved DS2 into his bigger room - didn't think about all the junk he'd bring back! I was supposed to host book group tonight but I've had to ask someone else to do it. I will move all the stuff to his room when he goes to China next week.

DS spent the weekend adulting - sorting out hostels in China, sorting payment for his house next year, organising his own vaccines. Yes, he has matured too.

One of mine has left most of his stuff at university so that helps and all their stuff is just about away now. He also cleared some old A level papers to recycling (not in his university subject) so I think that gave hiem more drawer space although that one has two upstairs rooms as he sleeps in one and uses his sister's old one for his desk, clothes in wardrobe, instruments and most of my books so he is very lucky - the upside of being the last of 5 children. I wonder when the two who won't let me will let me get rid of the full size table tennis table which no one ever uses and I have to move about 8 times a day to get to my files in the garage or the full drum kit which completely fills a cupboard upstairs and is rarely played.

However it is more likely to be like the older 3 - they will move back after graduating for first jobs etc until wages rise a bit so I think in reality I have about 5 more years of children around which is nice and will take me up to about 60 (having started with baby 1 aged 22 so it's been quite a long haul)

Wow that is quite a long haul Xenia, but then I guess children will only be replaced/ augmented by grandchildren following on close behind!

Lovely when posts give you a bit of a window on others lives - I can imagine your DS's two rooms and how you have to manoeuvre around the table tennis table - we have one of those too! Although mostly a football table that's out at the moment 😀

I managed to get rid of the football table. Ds plays horizontally now ( Xbox Fifa)