I am starting a Law degree soon - where is your study space?

[TickleMyTitsTillFriday]

I have officially enrolled with the open university to do a law degree! I am beyond nervous, but also determined to put my all into it and do the best I possibly can.

One thing that I would really like to get sorted before I start my access module in October, is where to have my study space.

I am quite lucky in the respect that I have a few choices - the kitchen, the dining room or my bedroom...

I am veering away from the bedroom idea, as quite frankly I have other things to be getting on with in there (like sleep ) so i guess its between the dining room and kitchen.

Where do you have your study space? Oh and if anyone has done the Law degree or is doing it, any advice would be very welcome!

I'm going to be doing Law with Psychology starting Sept 14. My study space is a corner of the landing. A corner of any room will do. As long as you have a laptop and some box files you can set up pretty much anywhere. I hear there is lots of material with Law so perhaps a shelf or two somewhere would be useful too.

Good luck!

Thank you! Good luck to you too. Are you going to be studying with the OU too?

Thats a good point about the books, i think a trip to Ikea for bookshelves and nice things may be on the cards...

I'm planning on studying with BPP university college. I've heard that the OU is very well regarded for Law but I want to get it done within 4 years and that will be quite tricky with the OU unless I study for double modules and I don't think I could manage that with working as well.

No that makes sense. I think with the access module it's going to take me 7 years. Life begins at 40 , right?

If you have lots of books and notes its much easier of you can spread them out- dining tables are perfect for this, but not if you are going to be disturbed all the time by people going to the kitchen etc.

I'm lucky enough to have a little home office with a sofa and a desk in it (and lots of bookshelves too of course), but in the past I have mostly used dining tables so I could spread out a bit.

Good luck for September

I'm hoping so Tickle!

Thanks Mater. In that case the dining room makes perfect sense as I would have a desk and a dining table behind me for extra spreading out room!

Sounds perfect tickle. You are also less likely to have your books and essays picking up cooking smells- DH once marked a project that smelt strongly of bacon! Made us both ravenous!

I keep all my books/notes on the desk in the dining room but study on the dining room table so I can spread out (3rd year S/W)

I've got a big plastic box that I keep papers etc in I put it in the dresser when I'm not using it.I learned the hard way not to leave anything lying about I work in the kitchen diner at the table to be honest it's a struggle sometimes But I'm nearly done so worth it in the end good luck

Thanks all that's a good idea sandiy.

I'm off to IKEA soon so will get some supplies. Just itching to get started now!

Hi don't know if anyone still checks this thread...I am really interested in law, I am a nurse so quite interested in medical / child / social law as opposed to accounting, mergers etc...sorry if I sound clueless it's because I am.
I don't want to be a solicitor but want to leave nursing and study law also at ou but would like to know what sort of jobs you can get with a law degree in the areas I am interested in on successful completion of studies....many thanks :)

I'm on the bus at the moment youaintallthat but will be sure to come back later and post some links...

www.open.ac.uk/business-school/law/career-choices

I found this helpful

Thank you will have a look and good luck with your course :)

I am going onto my second year of a law degree and you will need book shelves and lots of them! Law books are big, heavy and you will need a lot of them.

My study space varies though, from the dining room area to my room to a corner of the spare room, it really does not matter if it is clean, well lit and not covered in jam :)

Im doing exactly the same as you Tickle (we both mentioned it on another thread)

Have you actually registered yet! I will be calling this week to register.

Im so excited and plan to use the kitchen table until i can maybe transform my utility room into a little office.

That should have been '?' not '!'

Yep, all registered and have student finance agreed, I'm in the "oh shit, what have I done?!" phase at the moment...

Im calling to register in the morning, just looking through the prospectus again now. How exciting and nerve wracking at the same time!

Excellent I'm reading letters to a law student at the moment, would highly recommend it!

Ooh cool will have to look out for it. Im currently reading The Employment Law Checklist :)

Registered this morning, now just waiting for the finance stuff in the post :)

Fab! I heard back from student finance so quickly, I was really surprised. Do you know official start date of access course?

Erm think its about the 10th October. There or thereabouts, cant remember