final years! how are you all getting on?

[mamalovesmojitos]

well i cant believe i've made it to fourth year. finding it a bit stressful though. how are you all finding it? .

I was stressed a few weeks ago but now that I am on placement I am absolutly LOVING it. I have so much more responsibility and really feel that I know what i am doing!!

Plus there are some new first years on my placement and they tell me how fab I am as a third year!!!!!

oooh proof you've learned lots then, thats good! are you on placement for the rest of the year or just parts of it?

bump.

i've enjoyed the christmas break and am now very apprehensive about the final stretch. i have so much work to do and it is do-able but it'll be tough knowing that every mark is so important.

anyone else coming to the end of their degree/cer/diploma?

Hi, just found this site!
I'm in my final (4th) year of a biomed degree. I also have 3 children ages 12, 10 and 5.
Can't believe I'm finding it hard to motivate myself when I have come so close to finishing!! I missed 2 weeks before Christmas due to a really bad chest infection/flu and fell a bit behind. Think that's the reason really as I never miss lectures usually.

I agree the final stretch is so intimidating!!

hello! i found out today that i will graduate on the 21st of june...thats if i pass all my exams! im in my final year and am so glad to have finally got here the past 12 months have just flown, didnt think i would ever be here after having my son at the end of my 1st year!

hi!

katb you have three children too?! and anothermansmother you continued after having a baby? well done both of you. my one dd was 18months when i went back and i found that so difficult.

it does fly doesn't it? four years...gone in a heartbeat. sometimes i forget i'm in final year and find myself gravitating towards wine or telly when i really should be studying!

do ye have big exams or assignments coming up? i have an exam thursday week, quite nervous.

it's nice to chat to people juggling motherhood with study as not one other person in my degree has a child. it's a different challenge.

mamaloves mojitos...what and where are you studying? the is only other mummy on my course and hre children are in the 30's! Some of the other students (one in particular) think i have more time than they do as i dont socialise as much...and yes one of them actually said that to me, and she also said i was luck that they still had a place for me and that otherwise i would be on benifits! i just laughted at her.( and thought in my mind just wait until you have a child) although i do have some good friends on the course, they are usually males and i find sanity in my non uni friends, and of course mumsnet always helps!

oh god if somebody said that to me i would be so shocked! and upset. i'm studying music. maybe i shouldn't say where as i try to be anonymous (paranoid ) but i am close to england but not in england .

i know it is funny sometimes when someone says 'i'm so stressed' when they've been sitting in the library for seven hours during which time i've taken a few buses, collected, fed and cleaned dd, tidied up etc and returned.

as i say i've only one dc which makes it much easier, but i'm afraid to say i don't reach my full potential all the time. i'm happy with my marks though on the whole.

what are you studying?

forensic science ans psychology. yep im the same, its home sort out the house Ds and then shove loads of washing in and doa bit of study...although sometimes i do get a bit distracted by the tv, usually when i have had a really demanding day!
then agin i wouldnt swap my life for a gold clock, as shit as it is at times, like last night, 2am ds crying with temp and asking for his daddy( who he doesnt even see!!) then he wanted medicine, then didnt etc...this went on all night on and off! then i got a text from one of the uni lot asking could i help her out as she was struggling and was so tired her brain wasnt functioning...needless to say she did not get a reply! mumsnet is niceas only another mother can understand!

ha! it's funny how people ask for help when you're barely holding it together yourself! it's the worst when they get sick itsn't it? it always seems to happen when you have an essay due or an exam the next day.

hi, i'm drowning in it (alongside work, dcs, housework, rl) aaaarrghh
but i thought i was back this week and only realised late sunday night that term doesn't start till next week - what a nice feeling

mamalovesmojitos, i nearly always do assingments at least a week early and hand them in - which looks a bit sad but means that if someone gets ill i don't have to panic - and so far no-one has got ill at the last minute and i've just felt all smug because i'm done!!

and i keep thinking 'how can it be just a few more weeks???!!!'

and i keep sitting down to make use of the extra days i didn't know i had iyswim...and MNing, and somehow my brain fools itself into thinking that if i am sat at my pc i am working!

oh my goodness fourkids the EXACT same thing happened to me on sunday! i do have to go in this week for some things, and i have a big exam next week, but no lectures. i was so happy on sunday night. what a coincidence!

four children...really, i am in awe. i find one tricky enough! she's an angel, it's just the practical things that bog me down. i'm awful at keeping the house tidy etc.

i always promise myself i'll had in assignments early but i never do. you have inspired me to try harder .

what are you studying?

I have 2 assignments due in a week and surprise surprise my 5 yo dd is ill and off school so I can't get anything done this week during the day
I went back when she was 22 months and she just started school in September. I have to say it's been SO much easier as any days off I actually have to myself to work and not looking after her.
I had to pay my own childcare so money was very tight for a while too, now my 2 dds only go mornings and after school which is obv a lot cheaper.

Mamaloves my house is always a tip very lived in too, who cares? Apart from my mother who thinks juggling a degree and 3 ids isn't enough - I should also have the cleanliness of Kim and Aggie and the culinary prowess of Delia.

Anyway, hopefully dd with be back at school tomorrow and I can get my 1st essay finished

aaargh lost my post.

katb do you mean you are a single mum when you say you have to pay your own childcare? if that is the case, extra bloody well done.

my dd started school this year too, she is four but nearly five- i can't believe it. hope your dd feels better soon. does she like school?

have no college work done today, but my kitchen is sparkling.

Im having a crisis.

If I ever get to the end of year three it will be a bloody miracle.

hi all...dont you just ahte it when all is going weel then you get sick when you have work to do! i have abseses on my tonsils, can just about move my neck and have strugled to even get out of bed, luckly my nan looked after my Ds when he wasnt in nursery.
the doctor said it was probably brought on due to stress...well there's a suprise!
anyway have to get some work done now and mamaloves im off to clean the kitchen too

oh anothermansmother you poor thing. hope you feel better soon.

another monday- wasn't feeling too sprightly this morning! good luck this week everyone.

morning all! sorry tired emma overlooked your post last time...just keep going and you will get to the end!
im currently doing an essay and waiting for john lewis to arrive with Ds new bed.
have lecture this pm and my parents arrive after that for the night, so need to get at least 1000 words of this done and then clean.
hope everyone is well.

Hi all, I'm in the final year of my English degree. Studying at University of Southampton, which is a 45 min drive from home. Single parent, six children, all at home, and all lazy as you could want them to be.

I took up my degree after XH left me for an OW. Did the Access course, then my degree. Sometimes I feel like the world's most ill-prepared person. Most of the time I feel guilty because, whilst I'm studying, I'm not washing up. Or. whilst I'm washing up, I'm not spending quality time with the DC's. But never mind, because sometimes I just look back at the bloody 5-year-hill I've just climbed and realise what balls of steel I've got

constancewearing what a story! you are amazing...balls of steel is right .

god you really dusted yourself down and got on with it didn't you? you must be exhausted with the commute.

i have an exam tomorrow, first one of the finals but it is not worth a huge amount of marks. i'm very nervous though, it's a performance one.

hope you are all well.