Help. Uni interview tomorrow (for me, an old bird).

[AudTheDeepMinded]

I'm hoping to retrain at the age of 45 (46 by the time course starts). I've got an interview tomorrow (over Zoom). Today I'm preparing but I'm just panicking and catastrophising. It does not help that I have a house full of (well 2) Covid children.

Due to caring responsibilities I have only applied to one course at one university, so I mustn't fuck this up.

Please talk me down, offer me some advice or tips. Also, am I nuts for considering doing this at this stage?

An update, if anyone comes across this thread and wondered what happened. I got my grades on the access course and start at university next month. Whoop! (shitting myself).

Hurrah! 🎉

Congratulations. Wonderful thing to achieve and to look forward to. Well done!

You are brilliant OP. Hope you really love it. 😃

I just wanted to say well done and you will thoroughly enjoy it. I didn't do university as a young adult but started by own degree 3 years ago (then age 45) and have just graduated this summer. I was scared at first, especially with the first assignments as I hadn't written anything like that in a very long time but you've alreay done your access course so you should be fine. I was pleasantly suprised at how well I got on with my peers and didn't feel out of place or 'too old' once we settled in. It was the best decision I have ever made and I hope it is for you too, good luck.

Congratulations , well done and all the best. You will do very well. Enjoy.

Congratulations again.

Just for anyone else, if you already have a degree that is not a STEM subject then you can study part time in a STEM subject part time and get student finance.

this is a list from the OU but it applies to similar sugjects at other unis.

BA (Honours) Environmental Studies
BA (Honours) Geography
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
BSc (Honours) Biology
BSc (Honours) Chemistry
BSc (Honours) Combined STEM
BSc (Honours) Computing and IT
BSc (Honours) Computing and IT (Communications and Networking)
BSc (Honours) Computing and IT (Communications and Software)
BSc (Honours) Computing and IT (Software)
BSc (Honours) Computing with Electronic Engineering
BSc (Honours) Cyber Security
BSc (Honours) Data Science
BSc (Honours) Environmental Science
BSc (Honours) Environmental Science (Environmental Management)
BSc (Honours) Forensic Psychology
BSc (Honours) Geography and Environmental Science
BSc (Honours) Geology
BSc (Honours) Health Sciences
BSc (Honours) Healthcare and Health Science
BSc (Honours) Mathematics
BSc (Honours) Mathematics and its Learning
BSc (Honours) Mathematics and Physics
BSc (Honours) Mathematics and Statistics
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Astronomy and Planetary Science)
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Biology)
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Chemistry)
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences)
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Environmental Science)
BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Physics)
BSc (Honours) Physics
BSc (Honours) Psychology
BSc (Honours) Psychology with Counselling
BSc (Honours) Public Health and Wellbeing
BSc (Honours) Social Psychology
BSc (Honours) Sport, Fitness and Coaching
Master of Engineering
Master of Environmental Science
Master of Physics
Top-up Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Top-up BSc (Honours) Computing and IT Practice