I’m a fresher! ..Again.
Posted on | September 17, 2007 | 8 Comments
That’s right, yours truly is returning to college.
It’s been a bit of a job sorting it out, from contradicting information from the benefits agency about what course I was allowed to do, to failing a numeracy test as well as sorting out a move across country – it’s been ‘interesting’.
Today was the pay off though. I finally received the call saying I had an offer and could I get into college today for enrollment. Could I? I was on the bus within 30 minutes of receiving the call :lol:
It’s been a long day if I’m honest, that’s the most I’ve been on my feet in months – like every other educational institute the world over enrollment was a rather disorganised affair that had us trooping from room to room in an effort to find our next induction class.
I have to say though, it was most disconcerting to realise that I’m the ONLY girl on my course, and it seems that I’m also the oldest student.
The smile on my face has done nothing but grow all day though. We have something called ‘studynet’ at the college – it’s a student information system that’s basically a blog/ wiki/ feedreader/ noticeboard and ‘youtube’ in one, the best part is it’s accessible from anywhere online. It soon became apparent during this induction that I’m way ahead of the knowledge curve regarding internet applications and new media compared to my fellow students – I was one of three who knew what a podcast was and the ONLY person who had even heard of a wiki never mind knew what it was (some of them were even looking confused at the term ‘blog’..)
The course is also perfect for someone with my ME/CFS limitations because many of the lectures are being done as podcasts so I won’t need to go into college for them – I can attend online.
In place of tutorials we have an individual blog on studynet, the tutors can access this and see how we progress – if it doesn’t get filled in on at least a weekly basis they’ll be straight in with the email/ phonecall to see what it is we’re struggling with.
Group announcements will be made via text straight to our mobiles and they’re starting a wiki for the course that we will all be invited to contribute to.
Basically I’m chuffed to buggery – and that’s even before we get to the course content!
I’ll be learning programming fundamentals at the uni every wednesday, database and design at the college and various other modules I’ll not bore you by naming..
I’m just a VERY happy bunny right now. Here’s hoping I still feel the same 3 months from now.
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September 17th, 2007 @ 9:36 pm
That is so Absolutely FABOOOO
Well done Hun your so in with Deserving this !
and more bloggin , could it be any better ?
Nik
September 18th, 2007 @ 6:20 am
That’s brilliant news, Vics:-))) It sounds ab fab, and somethiing I’d be well interested in.
It’s great that you’re ahead of the game, it’s good for confidence and also being the only girl who knew more stuff than the men, wooohooo:-))
Loads of luck with it and with the move, wow it’s all happening:-)
Linda
September 18th, 2007 @ 6:32 am
Yay!
Congrats and good luck.
Neil x
September 18th, 2007 @ 7:06 am
Good on you, Vics. You make me proud for even having the courage to go back.
September 18th, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Yaaa. I hope you enjoy yourself as well. However this doesn’t mean that you can be up all right “whooping it up” now. You have to be responsible
September 19th, 2007 @ 12:27 am
“I’m chuffed to buggery”
September 19th, 2007 @ 12:28 am
“I’m chuffed to buggery”
woo hoo…sounds dirty
September 22nd, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
LOL trust you HK
K..? When was the last time I went ‘whooping it up eh?! even I’d have to go trawling through the archives to find out *grin*
Pat, it’s not courage, it’s stubbornness and opportunity
Neil – cheers man, and Linda – I can’t remember where your based but if it interests you then see if any uni near you offers something similar.. I’ll keep you updated on how it’s going