Anyone starting FT uni want to set up a support thread?!

[crabbiepattie]

Im starting a full time BSc DT with QTS in a few weeks time. Leaving my three gorgeous children in childcare after being a sahm for 4 years. It a mix of ????????

Ooh, yes please! I'm starting a full time BA in English in less than 4 weeks, I'm definitely a mixture of excited and terrified
Just have the one DD, she's 6 so I should be able to get away with after school clubs most of the time. What's a BSc DT? Should I already know what that is?

I'm starting a Social Work degree in September, as well as trying to work around it, looking after 8 kids and due a baby in December. I'm sure i'll manage though. :)

Oh, me!

I'm starting my full time degree in education, specialising in SEN.

I'm going to be working as well. Clearly I'm mental. DD2 will be going to nursery and spending time with GPs.

I've been a TA for five years so I'm hoping I'll have good experience to put towards it.

Haven't studied in over ten years though, so am a bit nervous!

Everyone all sorted with student finance?

I'm starting a BA in English and History.

Wow, Coldwater1 - take my hat off to you!

Can't say I'm excited or terrified at the mo. Am sure that will kick in soon though...

Hi! Im not starting a degree but completed one FT with DD 5 last year!
Best thing i ever did. Work hard and spend as much time as possible with DCs.

Exam time - try to have them baby sat as much as possible! (You wont be able to spend anytime with them at this point)

Give it your all....Good luck!

I'm starting a BEd in primary education. I'm excited and terrified!

So Coldwater you have 8 kids, are expecting your 9th and about to start a degree!

I couldn't even manage getting my 2 children to the supermarket today without it ending in tears.

How do you do it?

lol I'm known as the crazy one. Any time it gets hard i look at my kids and think 'I'm doing this for you'. I know i can do it, i spent 7 months on a Midwifery degree and then came to realise i was on the wrong degree, withdrew, studied an OU module for recent study and re-applied for Social Work and got in. I even got in an essay just days after having my last baby. lol

I have had my student finance sorted since May, it was nice to get that out of the way so early on. I have just completed my pre-enrolment for uni online! So excited but nervous too!

Wow Coldwater, just wow! I finally got the evidence in for my student finance last week, so fingers crossed Also been told I have to bring in exam certificates and photo id to enroll - I have neither
Is it supposed to be this stressful before I've even started?!

I'm starting optometry after being a SAHM for 13 years. I'm very nervous about uni, and have to pay fees up front because I'm an ELQ student.

I'm not starting at FT course, but going into my second year of full time BScEcon International Politics, whilst expecting my first baby in January - I don't plan to take a break apart from not doing my January exams

WhatWouldGibbsDo - Student Finance is the worst!! I swear the studying part is less hard than the actual applications for uni!

WWGD -its a BSc Design and Technology secondary education with QTS. So ill be qualified to teach 11-19 year olds in Design and Tech x

Ouch @ madsetimes!!! I almost had to do elq but got mittigating circumstances because both my mum and aunt had breast ccancer while i was studying nursing when i was 18 x

This is a good thread to find. I´m starting a ft bachelors in a few weeks after being a sahm for 2 years. I´m feeling a bit out of my depth already tbh! At present I only have childcare for ds for the mornings ... help!

Had my freshers week time table :-) cant wait to get stuck in!! Also cant wait to get my first proper week of lextures. But more than anything, i cant wait to et that little bit of me time!! Even if it is on the commute to uni or sat in the library/workshop doing assignments! These summer holidays have been hard. Especially with DH refusing to take any time off!!

Oh my goodness crabbiepattie I could have written your post! These summer hols have been very loooooong. I have been feeling so sorry for myself, thinking I was the only one with a DH who refused to take time off.

Can't blimmin wait til Sept...

Coldwater just wow! It will be hard going but good luck!

Good luck to everyone.

Hoping to be a third year SW student this sept.

Hi been lurking so thought I'd check in.

I've just completed a part time Graduate Diploma in Law and I'm starting the Legal Practice Course full time next month. I figure it's going to be a bit of a shock to the system.

I'll join in. Did a year last year and have now relocated so having to start again with a different course, albeit one I really wanted to do in the first place - social work.

Can't wait for my second fresher's week

Count me in. I'm starting Occupational Therapy with 2 DDs (nearly 6yo and 18mo). I finish work on Tuesday and I'm looking forward to starting. I've spent this evening putting my timetable, which will no doubt change, into my diary in an attempt to be a little organised.

I'm having pre-course wobbles now that I've seen the time commitment in black and white. I've been lucky enough not to work FT since DD1 was born and I'm worried about the huge shock she is going to get at the number of days in breakfast and after school club as well as trying to adjust to a new class. I'm also a little worried about how little time I'll get with either of them (DD2 will be with my mum - a registered CM so I know I'm really privileged).

Good luck everyone; I'm expecting to put on several pounds as a result of consuming massive quantities of & .

Aaaaargh. Student Finance! Should have gone into my account this weekend, and hasn't! They say my Uni haven't confirmed my studying with them. But they have. I was there!

And there's nobody at my university to answer the phone today and re-send it. Ace. I need that money!

I'm not going to uni yet, I'm starting my access course on Wednesday though and will be applying for uni next month.

I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 1. I'm really scared. Have been a stay at home mum for 7 years now mostly as my son has disabilities.

Now I'll be a full time student as well as doing a voluntary placement, its going to be hard but my partner is very supportive so I'm sure we will make it work.

Can I join? Leaving law to do occupational therapy. Still waiting to see what my bursary is. If I'm not entitled to much I don't know if I will be able to afford to study. They're so slow. I'm terrified. Truly terrified. I overestimated dh income on my forms and am now worried I'll get nothing.

Money is going to be really tight until I qualify and get a job in three years (if there are any jobs then!). I don't have my timetable yet and hope its not full of long days. I have no idea what to expect.

Woolly - are you studying up north?

yes, I'm studying at home up north.
Hope things work out for you with finance. Conversley as dh earns next to nothing, my bursary and loan (I'll only get maintenance as I have a degree already) is pretty good this year. Our outgoings are also low as we're 'up north' and in total I don't think we'll be much worse off than mat leave.

Evening, can I join?

I started my Social Work Masters last September but have been on maternity leave since January.

I go back to full time study/placement in January but have 4 essays and a law test due in before then so I need to get started as soon as the DCs go back to school.

I really don't know how I am going to sum up the motivation to write these bloody things without actually being part of the uni scene, lectures, group work, seminars etc.

Kicks up the backside will be very much needed!

Good luck everyone.