Anyone else getting a tad nervous?

[Mallarky]

Received today in the post enrolment day plus an induction day with campus tour library tour module choices and provisional timetable for this coming achademic year! I am really looking forward to it but tbh am quite frightened too! Returning to uni as a mature student-perhap's I'm just to old for this .

Me too! Spent a long time on the loo this morning Getting organised with photo's paper work for fees and loans. Feel like i've just got of a rollercoaster! Sorting out finances or lack of them that will impact on next year. (hope no one finds out the truth- i'm thick !!)

ive been doing my course part time for the last 2 years and still working. This wasnt so bad as the group was really varied in age 18yrs - 50 odd. Im starting full time in a few weeks and that will be mostly fresh 18year olds out of college. At that prospect, im nervous - im sure they will just look at me in the canteen and think 'quick, get a table and dont let the oldies sit with us', i will be resigned to a] sit like a saddo on me own!! or b]sit with the tutors! Which is worse!

Well nixz on my course one of the tutors is ab fab gorgeous, so i would like to sit next to him but- make sure i change my tenner lady first . How it would make an old lady happy, so try and find a gorgeous tutor to sit next too! If he's sitting next to a older lady in a bit of a daze, that will be me!

yep,going back into my third year...convinced im going to be rumbled as the 'scholar fraud' i am.

have been meaning to fill my loan forms out for weeks.oh the denial!!

Mallarky, that may be an idea to boost my grades! Must remember not to wear huge pants and sit next to dazed lady wriggling on her tenner lady

im sure youll cope sallystrawberry
it wont feel like you are all the time ..but thats normal.

i cant quite remember what youre up to...just done access and now starting full time course???

I can't go back to university as I don't think DH would be at all happy about it, but, I am doing a study at home course, I have to do 15 exams and a days practical exam in london.

I got my results for my first exam yesterday and I got 98% so I'm really pleased.

itll blow your mind im sure of it...what i always forget when i start bricking it,is that its so blimmin great to be learning loads of new stuff and meeting new people...even if it is totally knackering!
it sounds like youre well organised re childcare and all that.anyway,come monday you wont have the time to worry

please excuse the dim question...but will your degree follow terms[ie you get holidays or is it 'full on'?

Wow, well done, MrsBubs

Yes, am vry nervous. Mainly because I haven't heard at thing from the uni and I'm beginning to wonder if I've dreamed my offer. Oh well, I shall just turn up at 9am on the 19th and they'll have to take me...

Iknow how you feel SS. I'm worried about opening my mouth and the wrong thing coming out! it happens all the time!
Also in leactures being stupid and thinking I know something I clearly don't! oh, and wind!
Three children later things have got a little slack!Plus not speaking proper like what i ought a !!

Take a deep breath and remember...you don't have to deal with teenage emotions, hormones and sillyness. You are a mature student. Mature students almost ALWAYS do better than younger students.

well done Mrsbubs!

omg...mallarky!
wind really is an issue for me...and i always forget untill terrm starts again!! i really struggle spending the whole frickin day holding them in !!

And don't they all seem soooo young? (both students and tutors) The student boys look like they have just began to shave! ( ah, reminds me to watch the graduate)

OOh extremely nervous! meeting new people again and fitting in and all that and then learning all the things not forgeting the assignments, I don't want tothink about them.......assignments just mean I will be on mumsnet alot more as I attempt to scive or my mind wanders trying.

I don't start till the 26th......the torture!!!!!

OH thankgod I can share this with others!! Im totally crapping it... totally!! Im as nervous as a nervous thing...
Im worried that i'll get lost, forget the time and place of my lectures, have no friends, look like a mummy, the kids wont settle with childminder... im too fat, i have no clothes, I forgot to buy a sharpener.... the list goes on and on and on.......
I have freshers week starting the 19th and should get my time-table then... Im hoping it's okay
Im doing Journalism.. and i keep spelling things wrong.. Im afraid I won't like that course and will cry... well, i KNOW i'll cry on my first day cos im a nervous wreck and i'll be missing my baby boy.... Aww ah ah ah ah

I am starting an access course on 13th sept.

I am nervous a bit but I have done the first term of it before so kinda know what i'm in for.

I'm quite looking forward to it really.

I have 2 friends starting uni though and they are really nervous, think i may actually have to ring the one on the morning to make sure she goes LOL.

I love mn ! It makes me so happy to know that others are feeling the same way about the exciting adventure that is about to begin! And peeing their pants too!

firefairy2, where are you doing journalism? I am doing that too!

I am very nervous. I feel like I have spent the whole summer organising, nursery, fees, loans, grants, forms, forms, forms. I keep thinking I must have missed something but don't know what!

I am worried about meeting people, especially ones younger than me who don't have children, fitting it all in and staying financially on top of things!

On the other hand I am very excited too, having been a SAHM for the last 18 months I am looking forward to learning again.

Also, what if everyone else is much brighter, confident, capable than I?? ARGH

Having said that I did do a couple years of uni before I got pregnant and that was okay......

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

PS Well done MrsBubsDeVere!

Plus am planning on using overdraft to buy a new computer (this one is falling apart!) and keep getting bills - ie first month of nursery and council tax arrears (how? how? how?) which are due before I get loan etc and feel like my new computer dream is fading away... boo hooo

Sadie, I am in Ireland... you probably aren't!
I'd love a new PC too

I've not sorted out a loan yet I was told to wait to see if im entitled to anything from my local ELB and they then get in touch with the student loans company.... god i hope thats right!! I start on the 19th so it had better be a relatively quick and easy process!

Whoever is starting an access course, what is it in? It'sll be fab! I've just finished a 2 yr access course and the time flew in!! The first year we did Media studies, Irish History and Study skills (came in very handy in the 2nd yr when the pressure was greater!) Then on the 2nd year we had, 19th Century Poets and 20th Century Writers, and American History.. I loved the 2nd yr... I love reading and anything to do with literature.. so this was enjoyable to me! Sadie.. im glad someone is doing the same as me.. mebbe we can swap notes lol
Im glad I have found a place where there are student parents.. It;s hard to explain things to people who aren't going through the same thing.. I actually graduate from the access course in November it's silly 'cos i'll have already started my degree course... Nutcracker.. you should be having a graduation ceremony and meal when you complete your access course too.. theres something to look forward to eh??/

Hi everyone

Just a bit of reassurance - I'm now going into to my third (and final!) year of a degree, and seriously had every one of your worries when I started two years ago. I too felt like there was form after form after form to fill out, that it was going to be a nightmare sorting out my little one alongside dh's shift work, plus my university is a 50 mile round trip, so I wasn't looking forward to that every day! Also worried about not fitting in, sounding thick, having nasty lecturers, having a horrendous timetable, looking too old and frumpy, not being clever enough and being skint!

To put all your minds at rest - its not as bad as you think it is! In fact, all of the above 'problems' didn't materialise. I didn't have time to worry about anything like that once I got my head stuck in - you'll find instead that you are so full of new information regarding your subject, these little worries fail into significance! (apart from worrying about whether your children are ok of course!)

Good luck to you all - its hard work and tiring, especially with a family, but very rewarding.

xxx