Such bad timing!!!

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I am due to begin an access course to social sciences tomorrow. Friday night I fell off my bike and broke my right wrist (I'm right handed).

My wrist is totally shattered and the only reason it hasn't been operated on is because its such a mess theres very little they can actually do with it.

I am likely to be in plaster for the next six weeks (maybe longer). I'm also in alot of pain and on very strong painkillers which make me very drowsy.

So should I drop out completly? Or do you think its worth trying to get through the next couples of months and hope I can keep up with some very slow one-handed typing on my laptop?

Opinion, hints and tips would all be appreciated.

If I were you i'd still start the course and take a dictophone so you can record the lectures, you can make notes/photocopy other peoples' at a later date.

NO DO NOT DROP OUT!

I am a university lecturer, and know this is eaily dealt with. No undergraduate ever reads enough, so read. Be the first in the library, get the books. Attend lectures. Get Mitigating Cicumstances for any coursework required so that you might be given dispensation. See your tutor immediately, declare undying ambition but that you need help. The tutor will remember you!

Read your books, oh, sit at the front when you attend lectures.

Find someone quick from whom you might photocopy lecture notes (several perhaps, because how do you know who is good at note taking).

Oh, and a final thing - get used to 1000 times a day telling everyone what you have done.

I had a student fall in a climbing accident last year the week before starting - he broke various bits of him, including his face, started 8 weeks late, and made a great success of his first year.

WHATEVER YOU DO DO NOT DROP OUT.

Best of luck and enjoy