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.

That's a shame for your daughter , bigTillyMint. I hope she doesn't think it's too much of an anticlimax at the end of her studies.
Well done to your son, Horsemad. Having his dissertation printed and bound is a lovely graduation present and an idea I might store away for next year.

Printing and binding is a good idea. I had my uncle's 1930s/40s poems printed as a book on amazon and ebook and it was amazingly cheap and came as a proper book (just for the family).

I like that idea of printing and binding, I think I might look at that too.

The university print shops are usually good value but may it reopen for a while

Brilliant degree result for your son @Horsemad. We had to have our dissertations bound when I was at Uni of Sheffield. I think if I were to read it now I woujdnt believe I was ever clever enough to write 10 000 words!

Dd2 has just had a 2 hour zoom call with dsa to assess what software she can have next year. She's so excited bless her, its going to make a big difference especially as 2nd year results count for the degree. And shes made up Liverpool became champions yesterday!

I never had to write one as I read law but I know my twins are glad theirs are over. I suspect the one am collecting from Bristol tomorrow is almost the last man standing in terms of being collected from university so keen is he not to miss even the last 1 hour when the land lord checks the place tomorrow. Apparently I will be doing a lot of waiting with a full car of his stuff so probably will have to drive around to find a space just to pull over for an hour or two once the car is loaded - I can use the loo when I arrive around 7.30am but not when we leave apparently as he will have cleaned it! I am hoping rain comes otherwise I will be very hot in the car.

He just learnt his twin will be away another 2 weeks at his girlfriend's house (I hope her parents don't mind - I think they thought after 3 months apart it was better he came and stayed rather than to-ing and froing which is less covid safe.

I am glad RedH's daughter is getting the software. I have been out with a saw removing loads of dead branches but under trees so not too hot and daughter 2 (the one currently staying here) thinks she has got the new law job (in-house) she wants ( she heard from HR about where they should deliver her the work laptop which is a rather indirect way to hear positive news so better not assume it is definite and go on with a second interview on Monday for something else too just in case she rightly thinks).

As the Bristol one has no one here for 2 weeks other than boring me and his sister he is going to do the law school application at long last which is just as well as he has just about signed up for his next academic year's Bristol flat. Guarantor documents went in today so at least they seem to have that sorted out and he thinks the tenancy will start pretty much right away everything is signed in a week or so so that better - they might even stay there at times over the summer.

[I didn't get my one night alone tonight as daughter 2 not away this weekend after all.......]

Thank you all for your good wishes. He's relieved and happy! 😃

The DSA meeting sounds positive for your DD2 @RedHelenB - we're LFC fans too, so plenty of celebration here! 🏆

I did laugh at your DS, @Xenia, not allowing you to use the loo once he's cleaned it! 😆Hope you don't have to cross your legs!

I remember really enjoying writing my dissertation. We had to pay to have them professionally typed and bound. My aunt had been a shorthand typist so typed mine for me saving me around £30 - a fortune in 1984.
Picking DS up on Sunday. I fear I will be more emotional than him.

Well done to your DS Horsemad. Great result.

Ah cheers Haffdonga, esp about Conker and Johnny's names! Well, it's a bit of a journey up, and the ferries are fickle to say the least, but then where we live now isn't feasible just for a day. Main and very real concern is to sell the house - it's incredibly pretty but the market seems to have fallen out of the slightly higher priced seaside holiday home market, which is what our cottage essentially is (even though my eight have grown up here, most people would think it's not a 'family home').

@RedHelenB, I was in Sheff too (but the poly to do teaching ) and I’m a Red too Glad the DSA went well for your DD.

@BestIsWest, we had to pet to get ours typed too. I remember trekking off somewhere to a typists house...

@latedecember1963, thanks. I think DD is OK (third world problem really) and probably glad there’s no real graduation in July. She’s staying to do a Masters so all is not lost yet

Hello all - I have finally found you again. These boards have been busy and in the 5 mins I have had since Covid reared its head, I haven't been able to locate us. I need to go back and read through your posts to find out what I missed. I spent 8 weeks working at the Nightingale in Excel training ITU staff but despite meeting thousands of people, I managed to avoid the virus. I am now back to my day job training people online instead of face to face, while trying to home school my year 10 DS, drown out the sound of DH on his incessant Zoom calls and undertake research for my doctorate.

DS is home, no results due for ages due to delayed exam boards and no plans for what he wants to do as travelling is pretty much doomed and graduate jobs are like hens teeth. Have tried to talk to him about doing a Masters but he is so fed up with how this year panned out, the thoughts of paying to sit at home with online lectures is not very appealing.

Welcome back ono40. I collected one of my twins from Bristol on Saturday for 8am so he could load up the car before landlord inspection at 9am. It went very well because only 2 or 3 of the boys were left and they had done a lot of cleaning. The volvo estate was absolutely packed as he had a chair and TV and much else. His twins has been home from Bristol most of the terms as indeed was the other one until the final essays etc were in as it was easier to work from home.

He had been going to have a gap year travelling with friends but they have rethought that now due to Cv19 and he has just signed on a 2 bed flat in Bristol with a friend near other friends for a year and will do a law course (conversion course) the same one his twin will be doing in London but that twin will live at home.

ono40, well don for the Nightingale work. I began working from home in 1994 (as a lawyer) so am pretty lucky with how it's been. One of my daughters moves back out of here on Friday and the one twin at home says he is going away for the weekend on Friday so I think a peaceful weekend next weekend is in prospect.

Meanwhile his twin sent me his CV to check as he is applying for some law jobs - they recruit 2 years + in advance) and a scholarship and he is doing some legal work for a charity - none of which his twin is doing but I am sure they will both be fine. The daughter has had interviews - one on Friday and one today - online or by phone so has been busy with that and should hear about them soon. She just came in to talk to me about day rates and tax and insurance stuff.

@ono40 very well done to you on both the training and avoiding Covid.

Exam boards do seem very delayed - DD says she doesn’t get her final results till August. Idd SD that the same for your boys Xenia, as they are at Bristol too?

Oh no I'm not sure DD could wait till August for results ! Masters should start in September in another country ...
I hope the exam boards are feeling lenient-

Ono40 my DS is in the same boat. He had hoped to go travelling but that’s off the cards and like yours is not keen on doing a masters in the current situation.

DS results are supposedly due mid July according to the university web site.

Reading back the older post - I have missed loads! Congratulations Dr @Carriemac well done, I know what a struggle it is. And moving to a remote Scottish island sounds fun @goodbyestranger

I am feeling nostalgic remembering the good old days of the results noticeboard before GDPR etc. I'd had a viva so wasn't in the best of moods. Friend and I went to look at the noticeboard and it was crowded, we lost our nerve and headed for the pub. A few hours later we staggered back up the stairs and it was gone so we had to wait until the office opened next day to get results. Taught me a thing or two about procrastination

I think DD is still assuming she will get her results on 6th July (Leeds uni). At least, she hasn’t told me any different!

Welcome back, Ono40. Well done on the Nightingale technology work. My friend's DH was involved in the building project at the Manchester Nightingale hospital. It's not being used at present but may well be come the winter.
DS2 has handed in his final essay in Adelaide. 2 weeks today he arrives home. It's dawning on him he needs to start planning what he wants to bring home and what he's going to either ditch or donate.
We start paying the rent on his Selly Oak house tomorrow.

Hello all - have been away for quite a while but I recognise some of the names here from when our dc were setting off for uni. Well done to Horsemad's ds on the great result.

Ds3 has just finished and he gets his results in just over a week - on his birthday! Like most others, his uni are implementing a no detriment policy which I am grateful for as he has found the abrupt end of uni very unsettling and his asd is far more noticeable these days.

He was very organised and had his place on a graduate scheme all lined up last Christmas and his starting date for September was brought forward to June when lockdown began and he came home. Then at the end of May the offer was withdrawn so like thousands of other graduates expecting to start their careers, is now back at square one wondering what on earth he can do. He knew fairly quickly after starting his degree that it wasn't a field he wanted to stay in and by the end of the second year had his heart set on a primary pgce which would suit him but the weekend before he was set to apply, he changed his mind saying he didn't want another year of student debt. I have no idea how to support him as I can't give him any sort of certainty about anything other than providing food, shelter and lots of hugs.

Does anyone else have a dc whose work offer has been withdrawn?

DS and his contents are home!. It’s all the pairs of size 11 shoes everywhere, and why has he got 3 duvets!! . I’ve lost count of the sheets I have washed!

But good news today, his placement company has offered him a grad role. It’s not really what he wants Long term and it’s opposite end of the country from us, but it’s a job and good to have 1 in the bag.

eatyour - that's rotten of them to withdraw the work offer. You are doing the right thing giving him moral support.

One twin at last submitted his law school (Bristol) application today and by chance was also sent his tenancy for a flat with a housemate to sign too so he got a lot sorted out today as well with my help clearing his massive pile of stuff which totally filled my volvo estate with seats flat in the back at the weekend so at least the hall and living room are not covered in his possessions any more. I think he has enjoyed having his sister here - they are doing long walks from the house each late afternoon but she leaves on Friday (today she got a new job confirmed (by phone) today - it is has been very exciting day in some ways so is delighted and starts on Tuesday - initially from home - lawyer job).

Eve, we have loads of duvets too now not helped by them having single beds in year 1 (they just took theirs off their beds at home as I am a meanie), double year 2, 3/4 year 3. I remember a big clear out of duvets eventually after their older 3 siblings finished university but I will leave everything for now but we do seem constantly to clear out and then yet again start bursting at the seams here.
Assuming he gets his place at law school and gets a 2/1 then at least he now has everything settled.

So I emailed the hotel booked in Jan for the July graduations but I can see no basis they will refund my £660 as they reopen on 4 July (and it not their fault Bristol cancelled graduations) but we shall see. May be they will be kind to me. If they don't then I think the twins might as well have 2 nights in Bristol in a nice hotel.

I was going to add that the two main law schools today have confirmed arrangements for September - one will have full attendance with temperature checking I think and the other starting on-line until end of Sept with option where a student prefers to stay on line after that.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/law-schools-to-reopen-campuses-with-thermographic-cameras-/5104823.article?utm_source=gazette_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Law+schools+to+reopen+%7c+DWF+office+closures+%7c+Possession+hearings_06%2f30%2f2020

Oh no @eatyourveg that’s so disheartening for him particularly after being so organised and having something lined up.

@Xenia, your boys will be with my DDs flat mate doing law school in September!

@eatyourveg, how awful for your DS - very difficult for anyone, but addedly hard for ASD