Starting college

[lissaharrison]

So ladies I'm starting college in five days and although I'm looking forward to it I'm terrifed
I know it's daft but what if I'm basically crap at it, lots of new people, new routine, being back in a classroom after all this time. I don't feel organised or ready for it at all. So I'm panicking but I'm sure it will all be fine and after a week I'll wonder what I was so worried about.

[erinh]

Yay! What are you studying?
I'm going to go back to uni in 2014 (when Milla goes to school) to do my Midwifery degree. I have been away from study for a long time as well (I graduated with my first degree in 2002!) and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit intimidated by getting back into it again. So I can totally understand you being nervous. But if you want it, you'll be fine!

[Jodi A.]

That's awesome Lissa!! You'll be fine. How exciting!! What are you studying?

My turn in February. At the ripe old age of 42, I'm going back to add to the degree I have and get my Diploma of Education. It will take 2 years part time. But apparently casual teachers are in short supply here (VERY short) and at $275 a day, I figured it would be a perfect direction for me now that the kids are in school and getting a bit older. I really don't want to be working at home forever, and I don't want to go back to what I used to do before having my youngest, so.......planning for my future

[lissaharrison]

Thanks for the support ladies. I'm doing a diploma in support teaching, my sibling, nieces and nephew all have learning difficulties, my brother has a frontal lobe disorder and my eldest has severe behavioural issues, so no guessing why this appealed to me.
I'm really looking forward to supporting children and hopefully supporting their parents as I wouldn't just have a classroom understanding of the issues. It's also a really good base for many different career paths if I choose to a degree later on.
My husband is about to start a degree in photography which is two more years than I will be doing so we decided that I will do my course, get a job then once he has finished and working I can choose to do further study. It's funny how the world works because my husband only discovered photography and his love of it after an accident. He badly injured his ankle, it's permanently f***ed and got a camera to encourage himself to get back out and get over his fear of falling and inuring himself again. He was a chef previously which he can no longer do so decided photography was for him which of course he would never have found out if not for an accident which made him feel at the time like his life was over.

[donnab]

Congrats Lissa!! You'll be fine, but I know how you feel. I start in about 17 days and I'm plopping in my pants! I think you'll actually find it relatively easy to get settled into uni life by being on a real campus, whereas those of us who are doing it online won't have the structure. I'm doing it online and worried about keeping the motivation going.

[nielsy]

Yay I have no plans to start back at uni any time soon. I want to though just can't .

[Jodi A.]

Emma, you can't because of the kids and the time, or because of distance? I did my first degree by distance study, and nowadays, I'm sure it's HEAPS better what with online communications (we're going back about 20 years when I started my online degree). It took me 8 years to get my degree studying part time, while working full time, but I did it!! I will admit, however, the last couple of years were really hard once I had my son (I was still working full time as well), and then even harder when my ex and I split.

[nielsy]

All the courses I have left to do are placement ones (where you go to a hospital and do hands on experience 2 days a week). I have 5 terms left of that and we can't afford to get the kids into daycare plus fuel to Springsure hospital if they send me there like they did when I got pregnant with Logan and deferred plus textbooks etc.

I did uni external when we moved here (all the courses at CQU can be done external) and just went to residential school for the science ones with a mandatory lab session every week. So instead of doing one every week you do 12 weeks worth of lab and lectures and 2 tests in 4 days at the campus in Rockhampton.

[Jodi A.]

Damn..... :\

[Kyles]

Hope it goes well for you! I'm studying teaching and love it.

[lissaharrison]

Well I went, it was all good and even after one day I'm thinking, why on earth was I worried about that