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Student parent support thread - New for Sept. 2010

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MiaWallace · 23/08/2010 12:01

Starting a new thread for a new academic year.

Previous thread here

If you are currently studying a course or about to start one (at any level) please come and join us. We offer each other support, tips and encouragement, plus we use the thread as a means of procrastination Grin

We started off the previous thread with a short introduction so here's mine -

I'm 30 years old. Recently married with a 5 year old dd. I completed my degree in Education studies in July and I'm about to start my primary PGCE in September.

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schroeder · 28/12/2010 11:52

Yes am sticking with it, I do not want to drop out of THIS course, Only 6 months to go.

I'm reading as much as I can, I'm so behind due to dcs and me being ill, not to mention Christmas.

We theoretically get a week off for Christmas it's not much though is it? Especially if you fallen a little behind.

Anyway nose back to grindstone- my next TMA is due on the 14th, yikes.

madwomanintheattic · 29/12/2010 16:30

work hard Grin

ManateeEquineOhara · 02/01/2011 21:43

Hi all. Sorry to hear there are others not particularly enjoying their courses :s I am doing a part time masters which is currently making me want to curl up in a ball, probably not how I should be feeling. Only a temporary feeling though due to fees and crap essays Confused

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ManateeEquineOhara · 03/01/2011 14:26

I haven't done as much as I hoped over Christmas either. Not having work sounded the perfect way to get essays written, but I had underestimated how distracted I would get. Gah.

ilythia · 04/01/2011 12:14

Afternoon all, I understand the christmas mojo lacking thing, I am soo not in the mood,a nd got nothing done. Changes tou routine = not good, plus the snow and being stuck in with bored children didn't help. they shoudl have been in nursery for 4 days over the holiday but I couldn't get there and they weren't open due to short staff anyway. Fair enough reasons but still not helpful for my work!
I have a lovely long essay due in on monday, which I am a quarter of the way through. House to myself for the next few days though wich school/ nursyer/dh working, which shoud help.

I ahve managed to put the christmas decs away and do some washing, not work though.

Problem I have is that the library at uni is shit, it's cold, the coffee is across campus and I don't use the computers there as I use my own netbook so I have to use one of the very,(very) few tables to work on, and it's always noisy.

Last time I had an essay due I camped out in costa's all morning and got loads done (staff were lovely as well, bringing me refills and doing a tab for cakes Grin) Might have to bugger off there again later.

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ilythia · 04/01/2011 13:38

Oh it was bliss. And better than starbucks as NO WIFI (thi si very important point!)

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madwomanintheattic · 04/01/2011 16:19

as the queen of the procrastinators i totally agree! Grin

anyway, new year, new mojo. kids go back tomorrow and i can't wait! i've got three days off this week with an empty house and i'm actually excited about getting this msc finished now. woo hoo! (might have to temper my excitement a bit - i've got 8 mos lol)

are we going to keep this thread up and busy? i might use it as a conscience if that's ok?

happy new year, and lots of study vibes to everyone x

ilythia · 04/01/2011 16:44

yy to keeping thread up. Is nice to talk to people in the same boat tbh, there are a lot of parents on my course (PGCE) but I am the only one with under 5's, all the rest are pre teen or older, so very different kettle of fish. Plus DH working split shifts which doesn't help.

Managed to get to 2200 words before giving up and going to get girls.
School back tomorrow and DD2 will be in nursery as well so 9-3 I will be busy (hur de hur hur)

madwomanintheattic · 04/01/2011 16:55

Grin mine are 10,9 and 7. i am so relieved they are all at school now. dh is working 7-7 now, which means 7 - about midnight in reality.

ManateeEquineOhara · 04/01/2011 20:34

My Uni library is shit atm too, this is because there is loads of building work going on, I'm sure it will be great when it is finished but it is just depressing right now.

I finished on essay last night and am trying to finish another tonight, but am just doing the nasty references and have got far too bored. I went to a session on Endnote for referencing but it just seemed to be as much faffing around as my current method for referencing and you have to pay :-/ Anyone here use Endnote with success???

dylsmum1998 · 04/01/2011 22:14

Ilythia costa camping sounds heaven, would love to do that bt for some reason my bursary has not gone in, it is being looked into- doesn't help me pay the rent though does it Hmm this course seems to be so full of issues, am not enjoying it at the moment. I KNOW it is what I want to do but finding it a slog at the mo. Massive essay due on monday I have managed to get 1500 words of the 4000 done but seriously lacking motivation.

I will have it done in time, hopefully by the weekend, dd goes back to school thurs and lectures don't start til monday so I will work in eves today and tomorrow then all day thurs and fri to finish.

Going to wake up feeling more positive about it tomorrow Grin

ilythia · 04/01/2011 22:28

My uni has 2 campuses, mine, which has good parking but shit library/facilities. The other, which has fantastic facilities (a fricking starbucks on campus) but is ages away and has no parking as it is near halls. typical.

My bursary luckily went in so I have a lovely expensive (8 quid!ShockGrin) bottle of wolfblass and my new mp3 player loading music. I am so bad with moneyGrin

I reckon 1000 words a day shoudl do it and then I have a whole day to mooch abotu doing fun stuff (like housework...)

That's what I'm finding hardest tbh, when I am home with the girls I want to play as I was a sahm before so I miss them, and therefore nothing gets done, bedroom looks like primark after the sales and the back bedroom looks like a dry cleaners after a robbery. Never mind the bathroom which needs a good decontamination scrub

madwomanintheattic · 05/01/2011 01:39

i'm 3000 odd miles away from my campus, which does have a starbucks, but it's bugger all use to me. Grin my only library is amazon (and my groaning bookshelves lol) and whatever i can access online. i'm 3 hours drive from the nearest uni, and whilst they do have a relevant department, i've no idea whether i'd get permission to use their library facilities... i might look into it though. as it's the place i'm planning to submit phd app for at the end of next month it's time i put my head above the parapet anyway. Grin

my house usually looks like primark during the sale. full of rubbish and noise and chaos, screaming kids, and for some reason, dogs. must be guide dogs i assume, although they are suspiciously ill trained if that is the case...

ManateeEquineOhara · 05/01/2011 07:48

Dylsmum and ilythia - I am jealous hearing about bursaries! I have gone from last year undergraduate with bursaries and loans/grants plus p/t job, to just the p/t job and having to pay my own fees! Argh. I am quite scared actually, the next instalment of fees is due any time now and I DID have the money (I sold my beloved horse :( ) but then my car broke down so now I don't.

Madwoman - How come you live 3000 miles from your campus?! A applying for PhD at the one only(!) 3 hours away sounds like a good idea!

ilythia · 05/01/2011 14:08

If it helps my bursary pays for DD2's childcare and leaves me with a cool £100 leftover for fuel, equpment, books and coffeeHmm

managed to get to 3770 words with a whole section left of my essay to write, so some editing needs doing, but I have just found my notes that I wrote when we were given our assignemtn, and, um, well, lets just say I may be slightly off trackConfused Only an hour until I get dd1 anyway, so that'll do for now...naughty Ily.

Leaving it for now, going to go to uni tomorrow and print it off as my printer is dangerously low on ink, and then I can edit it properly. I hate all this scrolling up and down on a laptop, was much easier when I had a typewrite and did a page at a time (dude, I'm so old) You/Mitchell and webb are so right about the 'everything machine' prolesworth.

ilythia · 05/01/2011 14:10

yes, what's with the 3000 miles? are you home for holidays or with the OU or something?

madwomanintheattic · 05/01/2011 16:04

nope. had to take a temp withdrawal from uni as we moved o'seas with dh's job before i finished my msc. so i'm in canada. and my uni is in the uk. Grin so i'm not on a distance learning course, but by default, that's what's happening. Wink

i can get most of it done with what i've already got waiting on the shelves tbh (am a compulsive book purchaser) - the only thing i'm mildly terrified about is the statistical elements, and the fact that i didn't attend a single lecture on the statistical modelling course. i am sooooo not a quant girl. the rest of it doesn't bother me. i can do words. i still have three stats assignments to hand in amongst other things.

oh, and the funniest thing - i work in a bank. Grin but truly, we live in the middle of nowhere, and i'm lucky even to have a job, so i'm not complaining. fortunately, i'm now on week on/ week off (was always supposed to be thus, which is how i figured i'd finish the course, but circumstances combined and i ended up doing f/t mat cover in an already short-staffed branch.) so today is my first proper day off, with kids in school, since last may. Grin Grin Grin

can you tell how excited i am?!

i even bought a new storage shelf for my files yesterday, as i've run out of bookshelf space and dh is starting to make strangled noises - he's realised i'm about to take the lids off my pandora's box files lol. (most of which got crushed in transit)

an interesting side note - the paper is a different size here, and binders are 3 ring. everything i own is on A4 two ring binders which have all been crushed.

right. better crack on then. it's 9.06, just dropped the kids at school, i've got 6 hours. Grin

woo hoo!

madwomanintheattic · 05/01/2011 16:06

oh, and i'm self funding too. am definitely not self-funding a phd though, so MUST get my act together.

ilythia · 05/01/2011 18:14

Stats?

(and I'm doing a maths pgceGrin)

ManateeEquineOhara · 05/01/2011 18:26

I actually know someone who likes doing stats! He is such an anomaly!

Well done for getting some work done ilythia. I managed to do some more sorting out of referencing dullness!

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madwomanintheattic · 06/01/2011 01:50

ooo, manatee, he wouldn't be interested in a bit of long distance coaching would he?

does he know anything about spss?

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