I Love Being a Student!

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Yes, academic life was pretty hard for women in the 1970s.

I wouldn't have just greened you if I had seen this first, you git!

[diablo]

Hey I must be the oldest beans on toast eating, scruffy, get a job lay about on YD. I've just finished my psychgology degree with the OU, taken voluntary redundancy from Nissan, now doing certificates in natural science and physics and looking to do a PGCE next September. I just turned 44 in July.

It is funny though that I really do like the taste of beans on toast.

Dave

[Houseplant]

Originally Posted by Jacq

Enjoy Sipadan - BTW what are you studying?

Jackie

i'm studying medicine. think the fun is going to stop in 8 months when i qualify, so getting it while i can

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I wouldn't have just greened you if I had seen this first, you git!

Hey...I was at Uni in the 70s, just - (Sept 1979 on). It's nowt to be ashamed of. And I'd only just turned 18.

[nigelH]

My wife did her degree in her late 30s.

It looked like a lot of hard work and not a load of fun (we had two kids by then) and the comute Brighton to Eastborne wore her away. I typed all the essays, fully typeset the project (early 90s so WP wasn't what it is now and most people did not have their own computers) and did a lot of dropping off at/picking up kids from school, shopping et. al.

The kids she was doing the course with seemed to think she had it so easy with IT support at home and my income to cover things like a nice car and eat out if you can't eat in but she so missed their free time.

[Jacq]

Originally Posted by nigelH

My wife did her degree in her late 30s.

It looked like a lot of hard work and not a load of fun (we had two kids by then) and the comute Brighton to Eastborne wore her away. I typed all the essays, fully typeset the project (early 90s so WP wasn't what it is now and most people did not have their own computers) and did a lot of dropping off at/picking up kids from school, shopping et. al.

The kids she was doing the course with seemed to think she had it so easy with IT support at home and my income to cover things like a nice car and eat out if you can't eat in but she so missed their free time.

Well I know how she felt except I was lucky enough to do my degree with other mature students so we could all moan about husbands/wives and kids and perhaps thats what kept all of us going :-) happy memories and hard work but I told my kids to do it without any responsibilities if they knew what they wanted to do. One did, the other is still thinking about it.
Each to their own:-)

Jackie

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by Jacq

Well I know how she felt except I was lucky enough to do my degree with other mature students so we could all moan about husbands/wives and kids and perhaps thats what kept all of us going :-) happy memories and hard work but I told my kids to do it without any responsibilities if they knew what they wanted to do. One did, the other is still thinking about it.
Each to their own:-)

Jackie

I too had a good support group of other 'mature' students on my first degree course. It made a big difference. When I went on to do my MA I didn't have that support network and I really struggled to motivate myself.

I changed courses afther the first year, so had to do another first year of the new MA course. I just got into my final year and had to take time out and postpone it, so in all it took four years to do my first degree and another four years to do my MA.

I was right off studying when it finished, but fortunately the extra earnings I had by then meant I could concentrate on my diving.

I vowed I'd do no further study, then went straight on to do my Dive Master! I'm also in the middle of a sixty credit course for work, but the 3000 word assignments I need to do for that are a piece of pi$$ compared to 20,000 word dissertations!