They settle in and we miss them. Uni Starters 2023 - Thread 2

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I wanted to get a news thread ready for everyone as you wake up in the Uk.

We are settling into a routine of talking to DS on FaceTime on Sunday mornings after our breakfast, which is early pm his time. It is so nice to see his smile and catch up on how he is doing. I know at some point he will have a bad day, but so far he seems to be doing so well, I am ridiculously proud.

Hope you all have a good week!

@MarshaBradyo hers is a business degree. There’s a placement thread in HE where engineering ops are discussed. Tizerorfizz has some good ideas re engineering placements but has said if your DC is going an MEng, then a placement year will be surplus to requirements plus makes it 5 years.

@NotDonnaOh thank you! Yes he wants to do MEng. Will look at the thread.

Happy Easter and to everyone 😀

Have read it, really helpful @NotDonnathanks.

@MarshaBradyo has your DC got a placement sorted?

@crumblingschoolshe got really close to one and has some others that are a maybe. We were feeling a bit oh. Well I was he’s very what will be will be.

So that thread mentioned below and @tizerorfizzposts saying it’s not as necessary as I thought really helped.

It’s taken the pressure out, and he can do four years total.

Morning all, hard to believe we are almost at the end of 2nd year! How’s everyone’s DC doing?
DD1is popping home on Thursday for a week. No particular reason but has exams the following week so will be studying. I’d have thought it’d be easier for her to stay at uni but it’ll be lovely to see her so I’m saying nothing! She’s then home properly mid June and starts her placement in July. I think a year at home on placement will be another adjustment for us all. Especially as DD1 is taking a 6 month sabbatical and will be living at home on and off (she’s been doing a degree apprenticeship for the last 4 years) plus DD3 will be starting a new school going into 6th form. So all change for the three of them & us!

You'll have a full house @NotDonnabut lovely to have your full brood under one roof. Good luck to DD and her exams and starting her placement. DD is definitely applying for grad jobs in our home town and wants to do her 2 years ECT training living at home as quite intense.
She’s still got 2-3 weeks of placement left and leaves 2nd year mid June too. She’s exhausted. Got her uni Ball this Friday and is contemplating swerving it as so tired but fears she’d get fomo so is planning on going for a bit as she’s got her ticket and beautiful dress already. She also gets her grades on two assignments on that day so isn’t looking forward to people discussing that.

How’s the placement hunt going for DS @MarshaBradyo

@AnneOfCleavage ECT? I forget what your DD is studying apologies!
Yes a full house but hoping for reduced bickering now they’re older and supposedly more mature 🤔

We're back to a full house as dd2 came home (via band competition in Norway) this week. She's currently emptying her room as she's going back into halls next year. Her home room is untidy (understatement of the decade) so goodness knows what she thinks is going to happen to the stuff!

Next year they may all have flown for term times.
Dd1 is looking to move in with her boyfriend and ds, assuming he puts enough work in to get the grades, will also be off to uni. It's going to be strange.

@NotDonnaECT = Early Career Teacher so she qualifies as a newly qualified teacher next summer but has to complete 2 years ECT to fully qualify as a teacher (so it’s like a 5 years course but with ECT she gets entry level pay which is a bonus)

@MargaretThursdayDD said “how will I fit two bedrooms worth of stuff in my one bedroom at home once I leave uni”? I said she’d have to be ruthless and pass a lot of stuff on. How lovely DD went to Norway. Is she going to the uni Ball this Friday?

@AnneOfCleavage It's not really her uni stuff is the problem so much as the two large boxes full of soft toys and dolls that "will be upset if I give them away" Should never have let her watch Toy Story and similar.
She isn't going to the uni ball because her boyfriend got tickets to Taskmaster (I think she said) and they're going to that instead.

@MargaretThursdayhaha yep our loft is full of cuddlies, sylvanians and dolls etc as DD doesn’t throw anything out either and wants them for her future children.
Taskmaster sounds a fun alternative to the Ball. DD is hoping to bring her boyfriend next year (non Chi uni) as she won’t be on placement this time next year. She thinks non uni goers can just buy a ticket as a guest of the uni student 🤞🤞

Dd is still doing well. She has her last exam tomorrow, but all results so far are on course for a first. She is really happy at the moment.

That’s so lovely to hear @Downsidesupsideesp after her last year. Exams all finished for her now - phew!!
DD has pretty much lost her voice from so much teaching that her school said don’t come in tomorrow but she is as she doesn’t want to have to make the missed time up once Uni ends. They said she can leave after lunch as she’s on PPA time (teacher planning time) so she’ll have lots of time to rest before her Ball which she’ll go to for a short time she feels.
She’s over the moon to have got her grade back early on an assignment and got the first she was hoping for. She def knows she hasn’t got one for the other assignment but a pass is all she needs I told her hopefully meaning she’ll get a 2:1 for 2nd year.

In other news the weather is fab at the moment so I’m loving the outdoor drying of washing and colourful garden to sit in although the grass is definitely dying. Why is it always gorgeous weather while the students do their exams then in summer holidays it rains!

@AnneOfCleavagehe’s still interviewing! He has one this week. He also starts exams so is focusing on those and seems ok if a placement doesn’t happen. That linked engineering thread was really useful.

Well done @AnneOfCleavage DD and so pleased he has interviews @MarshaBradyo

Ah glad this thread is still going! I think I started the first one what feels like many moons ago. DD is doing so well at the end of her second year. Good group of friends, studying hard, moving in with her boyfriend for 3rd year. She has grown so much in confidence in 2 years and is so focussed and sure of herself. Just finishing up final exams this week (she is studying psychology in Cardiff) then home for about 5 days to see everyone, back to Cardiff for a Brownies sleepover (she volunteers as a Brownie leader), back here again for 2 days before she goes to Italy with her boyfriend for 8 days. After that is looks like she will go back to Cardiff for the summer and get a job. Last year she was here all summer back to her old job but they dropped her hours and I think she just wants to be with her friends and boyfriend. I'm really pleased for her but with DS also buggering off for July and August with friends it is going to be a quiet one for us!

Hope everyones DC are still doing well.

Hello everyone. I’ve name changed but thought I’d check in and see how everyone is doing?

DS did well in his second year exams which is good news as it’s a 4 year degree and masters combined. One of his DFriends has dropped out after tge results came through.

This year he’ll be living with fewer people, just 3 of them but he has lived either obe of them in the first year.

Just thinking about getting his stuff ready to go back and hoping he’ll be ok again this year.

Oh wow, long time no chat. Third year incoming!

DD has moved in to her new flat, which is so, so, so (x infinity) much better than the old one. Modern, purpose-built, exactly the same layout as her hall of residence flatlet but with 5 bedrooms instead of 6, and all good friends and jolly good company instead of virtual strangers thrown together by accommodation desperation.

She is having to do a placement this year and busy putting out feelers. Putting herself forward like this doesn't come naturally to her so I hope she doesn't hang back and end up with something unsuitable.

I'm excited to hear everyone's news!

The accommodation sounds much more suitable @ZittiEBuoni. Bunker to think that my DS will be sorting out 4th yesterday accommodation in the next few weeks. I think the people hes sharing with this year are only in a 3 year course so he’ll have to look for something else.

I don't envy him that pressure, @BunnyRuddington , hope he finds something that suits.

DD is going back into halls as she found living out quite stressful. I think she's looking forward to it as there's a few she knows in halls next year.

We’ve got DD at home until 4th October so another six weeks. Then final year. She is trying to decide if to apply for a Master’s. She got an en-suite room in the college ballot so she is excited not to have to pad along a long corridor and share two toilets and two showers with 11 others!

Ooh hello everyone. Hope you’ve all had a/ are having a fabulous summer. It’s really flown. DD is at home for 3rd year as she’s doing a year in industry (London). That was hard fought! Luckily she’s loving it. Early days as only 2 months in but bodes well. We’ve everything crossed that this will lead to a grad scheme after she completes her 4th year at uni.

My DD is doing a placement year. Enjoying the job, but she moved cities for it. However, it turns out that even though on paper, everyone is supposed to be in the office at least 3 days a week, most people WFH most of the time, and a lot of her work colleagues actually live in her original university city! All her friends/boyfriend are also in her original university city. Unfortunately, she's locked into a 1 year contract on her room in the new city - she's advertising for someone to take over her tenancy, so she can go back to her uni city, but no luck so far. I suspect she's going to have to suck it up for the year.

It's very annoying because it took her ages to find somewhere suitable to live, and she already had accommodation organised for this coming year in her original city, which she had to find someone to take over, and now she's having to do it all again in reverse.