Heading towards year 3 exams (uni 2017)

[Xenia]

Continuation of www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/3538808-heading-towards-year-2-exams-uni-2017 as we have reached page 40.

Hard to believe they are all in year 3 now and many will finish university in June 2020.

Well done to RedHelen's daughter!

I'm enjoying reading about the ingenious ways you're finding to mark the end of this stage of their education.

DS2 has messaged to say he has booked his flights home for July. My MiL is very excited!

I haven't planned anything but I am sure mine will be relieved when he is free of his last exam/essay (his twin is already home and free). I am not chasing him at present for a chat as he is in the middle of a lot of university work when a lot of people seem to be over it all.

Dd1 got 73% and 78% for her last 2 exams which were merits so she passes the year on a merit so celebratory Chinese tonight!!

Don't blame you @RedHelenB, fab marks! 😃

I video called DS tonight - he's coming home this week now (Fri). He seemed a bit melancholy I thought - it's one of the lads' last night & I guess it's hitting home that his merry band of housemates is going their separate ways. ☹️
Can't wait to have him back, we last spent time together on his 21st in Feb.

🎉 for RedHelen's daughter!

Friday... that's only the day after tomorrow, Horsemad! Bet you can't wait to give him the biggest hug. 🤗

Haha, I know @latedecember1963 - I need to get his room ready and empty my clothes overspill from his wardrobe! 😆

We re the opposite @horsemad, dds stuff spreads into mine! It ll be great to have him back but its always sad when you have to call time on a great experience.

DD has one more year to go ( in Scotland) and then probably a postgrad year - so I'll still be around in this part of MN.

I think there will be a good few of us whose DC are still at uni - masters whether integrated or not, clinical courses - and I hope some whose kids are done with it will update us on how they're faring. Its obviously not going to be a good time for job hunting.

DDs job starts the week after next, so we're hoping to take them out for some good hill walks before then, weather permitting (colossal rainstorms yesterday!) . DH is going to clear his desk for her, so I shall have an office mate. We're not sure how long the boyfriend is staying - we're happy to have him for as long as they want, he's a nice lad, but I think his mum wants him back for a while before his internship starts. Of course, if they can find a house (together with 3 other pals) which is available early they'll all want to be off back to Cambridge. Much as we like having them home, it's understandable they want to be with their friends and have some semblance of getting on with their normal lives.

DD and her bestie threw a 'virtual surprise birthday party' for the girl they shared with in the second year, nice but obviously not really the same as a real one (not merely because we have no gin) ... though it did at least allow for everyone to show off the family pets.

I'll still be around, Errol. Good luck for your daughter's job next week.

I'd like updates on how folks are getting on too. Time is such a strange thing. In some ways it seems no time since DH and I were the ages of our children and in other ways it's like a previous lifetime.
I can remember the June evening standing with my friends in the corridor at college waiting for the admin person to come out and pin up the results on the noticeboard so clearly. I know things have changed, but somehow getting an email wouldn't have the same feeling to me. Of course our children don't know any different and would probably be horrified at the lack of privacy.

that posting of results on a board was stressful, but comradely
an email or logging in to check would not be the same, though the kids are used to that after UCAS etc. DD sitting last exam right now!

On our results day, we all had to assemble in the department in the morning to find out which unlucky people had to do a viva, and then the results were pinned to a board at 5pm. We went back when DD was doing the open day there, the area by the board was exactly the same and it took me right back to a feeling of sheer elation. I'd not expected a first and it meant I could get a quota award for a PhD of my choice so it was a very memorable moment.

During that day, DH had the use of his DMs car, and my best friend was a bag of nerves awaiting the outcome so we took her out to a safari park. The bull elephant provided another memorable moment.

I had to get my results by post for some reason. I can remember getting the envelope and running upstairs to open the envelope as I didn’t want to open it in front of my mum in case I’d failed. I hadn’t. There was only one first in the class of 70 and it wasn’t me!

My experience of posted results wasn't so good. Those not called for a viva generally passed their time in the union bar or another pub. I was working that day so when I arrived after 5pm, it was carnage. Someone had broken into the cabinet and "borrowed" the list I was on (to show his mammy). The admin person and I ended up chasing him to retrieve it. The pub afterwards was no fun as my friends were so many drinks ahead of me.

Son got his 3rd year results yesterday by email (he has one more year as we are in Scotland) - much more civilised!

Ds also in Scotland, so will be on here for another year too! ...although he's not relishing fact of probably having majority of his final year classes online until Christmas....however he'll have his dissertation to keep him busy though and is now considering his MSc options
Had one of his 3rd year modules reassessed( due to mitigation) and had been now been awarded a first

My DS2 is super lazy so Covid has been good for him with online exams over 24 hours and no detriment at module level. He was joking yesterday that he needs another spike this time next year and he might just graduate with a decent degree.

Online lectures are right up DS2s street too. Does seem fairly keen on his dissertation topic though but not sure how much time he will get done this summer as he works in a food shop and has been working full time (even during exam weeks).

My youngest is already thinking about MScs. Scary prices (some ones £20k+ in fees alone). In my day you got fees paid and a generous Science and Engineering council grant.

He's home. 🙂

Stepped off the train at 10pm in his shorts, looking like John McEnroe - mad curly lockdown hair and a HUGE sports holdall containing his weights but barely any clothes...🙄

Came home and devoured fish finger sandwiches and a pint of milk! 😆

Love him! ♥️

that's a great image

Lol Errol.

I can't get over how big he looks - my kitchen seems tiny when he's stood in it!

Lovely for you to have him home Horsemad ......and a I am chuckling at the image you paint of him!

Aww, Horsemad, I may just have got a speck of dust in my eye.
Fishfinger sandwiches...food of the gods!
Enjoy the hugs.

Welcome home to the Horsemad son. One of my twins says he will not be going back for the last week at Bristol but he will still drive back on the last day to collect his twin and all his twin's stuff so that is very helpful of him.

We still have the £700 worht of 2 hotel rooms for 2 nights in July (non refundable) for the graduations not taking place. I was waiting to see if the hotel cancels (our package holiday company which cancelled our June family holiday (for 11 - family gets bigger and bigger) has paid me back my full deposit as I waited for them to cancel and did not cancel it myself). May be I should check if the hotel is re-opening in Bristol. Silly me to book in January so we could go out of university phase in style with a nice hotel.

Next task for the son going back to Bristol for a year is fine accommodation which I think he and his friends are working on and he is booking his law school place this week, I hope - awaiting his tutor's confirmation he will be the referee without which he cannot even apply and which I told them to organise last summer which he twin did. Oh well - he wan't to know his whole gap year would come unstuck. Daughter 2 is still here - 4 weeks I think in total and her boyfriend is here now too (just 2 days).

I currently estimate it will be about 4 years before I get the house to myself again. (A concept parents delighted to have children back will not understand.... I suppose I am like my parents - my father said (nicely) "you divorce your children at 18"... he just meant people move away, work away, form their own lives and that that is fine)

... ah checked... I don't know if it is worth trying to change it to some future graduation date we don't know and might not even happen. In fact if the graduations are back on say in February then I am not sure I would even bother to spend the night this time.

"All Reservations booked before the 1st June 2020 on an advance purchase or non-refundable rate that were scheduled for arrival before the 30th September 2020 can be amended** to a new arrival date.

**Amended bookings are subject to availability and the prevailing rate will apply. Any amended bookings are subject to new booking terms and conditions."

That’s lovely horsemad. You must be delighted.
So hard to know about graduations . It may be a nice reunion for them when they are eventually scheduled.

Thanks all, it is great to have him home again. 😃 Not sure when we'll get to see his big brother next, hopefully next month if the hotels are permitted to open, as that will require a stopover.

I really hope graduations DO take place, whenever that may be - as Carrie Mac says, it will be a nice reunion for them. 🤞

Horsemad enjoy and Xenia too. It must be nice to have a dd home short term and a ds for a while, even if you feel they've all divorced you. I'm sure they haven't or they all wouldn't keep coming back

Ds is heading back to his uni on Tuesday to move house. He's had an email from uni to say his masters course will start late at the end of October so he has one looong summer doing not much.