OMG - Summer School is startin to feel like I’ve always been here!! Is that a good or bad thing? I don’t know yet… LOL!
I really wasn’t sure about comin to Summer School as hardly anyone else from my school is here. All my friends are gonna be out enjoying the sun in the summer holidays but I guess it’s okay cos I’m not here all day every day and I still get the weekends. Have met some really nice people anyway so it’s not looking too bad. Couple of hotties in the group already and one of them is even in my Personal Tutor group… cringe!
It's weird cos this place just doesn’t look like what a university looks like in films or on tv or that but I like that. All the buildings are named after old men and I am getting confused already but sure I’ll get the hang of it soon. I think I thought everyone would be staring at us when we were here but we kind of fit in. We don’t look that young compared to other people and most of the students are on holidays now so we get to be them for the summer, I guess!
We have to do this Learning Skills course too which covers study skills. There is some stuff I did in school like time management but they kind of do it different here so it's not like hearing the same thing again. Also, not everyone did it at school so its helpful and uni already seems different from school cos the teacher (agh, lecturer, I will never get the hang of that) isn't always telling you what to do every step of the way and some of it is up to you to work out. Someone said that even if you bumped into your lecturer on the day an essay is due they wouldn't say 'oh, hi such-and-such, remember your essay is due in'. You've just got to know yourself cos they are too busy. That scares me a bit.
I don't know what other people do before uni but there is a website and everything for our Learning Skills so I feel like we're gonna be further ahead than them already. In my classes in Psychology and History/Politics I am getting on okay so far I think but I’m not really sure I guess til we do coursework. The lecturers told us what is expected of us at university and in summer school so as long as I can keep up with that I should be okay. We have had some social stuff happening too but I was gutted last week cos we never got rounders (which is a bit like baseball or softball if you don’t know, marker person, OMG!) and I had wore my flat shoes all day just for that even though they didn’t go with my outfit. Humph!
Okay, gotta run now cos my bus is coming in like ten minutes and I need to get home, lol!
Loadsa love,
Holly Green
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Well done, Holly - you’ve made a good start on your blog!
ReplyDeleteYou've described your first impressions of Summer School, including comparisons with school, and your reactions to meeting new people, in a new environment; in other words you're already showing some “reflection”.
Things to improve on: try to avoid abbreviated words and write the proper version instead (eg “because” instead of “cos”); although a blog is quite informal, it can still be a way of developing your English writing skills (remember the Learning Skills “online etiquette” guidance?). Also, you briefly mention time management but it would be good to know if you have actually got yourself organised, eg by filling in the assessment dates for all your Courses on your Assessment Calendar, and using the various Personal Management materials which are on the website (questionnaire, timetable etc).
I hope Week 2 has started well for you, and I look forward to reading your reflections on your learning experiences so far, in your next blog post.
Morag Williamson(Learning Skills lecturer).