Well here it is

I am having such a great time at the moment and I know you may wonder how that may be with all the studying I am doing but that is what I am enjoying so much - crazy? I must be ;O)

 

Well I went to my introduction meeting for my Law Degree and filled out loads of forms for the UNI of Glamorgan and for ELIHE. We was told about the course and what we have to do etc including how many lessons we have a week.

We are in twice a week for four hours a time - that will be taxing on my brain but I am sure we will have a couple of breaks. I know that most of the people on the course was lead to believe (like I was) that the course will be 6pm till 9pm twice a week but it is 5pm - 9pm now. A lot of people work so they weren't happy about that but hopefully they will be able to make it to class in time and not miss any.

There is about 20 in our class - maybe a few less - and there is equal amounts of females to males or there abouts and no one is over 40. Most of the class look to be around my age (I don't know for sure as I didn't go round asking peoples ages).

The course is four years long and it is about £650 a year which isn't too bad, would be a lot more if the course was full time though I wouldn't want to do it full time.

We have to pass 40% on all the assignments and exams otherwise it is a fail and you are allowed to re-sit the exams twice more to pass but after that you can't really carry on with the course. So I am hoping and preying I can get over 40% on everything. I should be able to do so but I won't know until I get my first assignment.

We have our first lot of exams in May and we sit two - WOW! That is really early on in the course but I guess that is the way it works.

You can take up to 6 years to do this course but of course I want to do it in four but there is always that option there if something happens - you can take a year off.

I couldn't even get a grant to help pay the course fees either because I am a Open University student so the course had to be paid for by my dad and I have to pay at least half back to him in monthly amounts. I am so glad he paid for it as I want to do a Law degree so much. I did however tell him that if he didn't think I could do it not to agree to pay for it. He said his only problems is he thinks I have taken too much on and I agree with him there. It isn't the law that is too much, it is what I have taken on with the OU. I have taken on 120 points and the Law course is 80 points a year so I will be doing 200 points which really isn't recommended.

At the moment I am revising for A207 which is driving me round the bend - my exam is in 3 weeks today and I haven't learnt anything from the revision even though I spend up to 5 hours a day revising.

I start DD100 when my course material arrive and that carry's on till June next year but I am hoping to get it all into the next four months - well all the course material and at least 4 of the TMAs for now.

Then in Feb next year I start A217 which is Religion which I think I should be ok with as I have done Religion twice now with two courses so I am hoping I can get away with an hour a day on that. That course carry's on till October 2006 when it finishes with an exam.

The Law Degree course finishes in June-ish time and I am hoping there is no study to do for that over the summer holidays so then I can concentrate on A217 and revise for the exam before starting my second year of the law degree.

I know I am taking too much on and something will give but I am hoping that if I study hard and long that I won't need to quit any of the courses because I really want to do them all and wouldn't be able to pick which one to quit.

It wouldn't be the Law degree for the fact that my dad has paid for it and I have to pay him back and it probably won't be the religion course because it goes towards my Humanities degree and is my last level 2 course (if I pass A207) and I can then carry onto level 3. I am hoping I don't have to quit Social Sciences either as I am paying for a third of the course and because I am doing the certificate in Social Sciences.

If I  make it through them all next year I will be doing 90 with the OU instead of 120.

 

Anyway I think I have gone on enough here for now so I am off to revise!

 

 

GOOD NEWs

Well I got accepted onto the Four Year LLB (HONS) LAW course.

And I am more than HAPPY about it.

 

I did go through some doubt about whether or not I would get on it but I got on it and I am over the moon.

 

Now I have to wait and see if I can get financial help for it as I can't afford it. I will keep my fingers crossed as far as that is concerned and just hope I get financial help for the course as there is a chance I might not be able to do it if I don't.

 

I really did build myself up for the let down of not getting on the course so you can imagine my utter surprise when the letter dropped on my door mat this morning and it was in there,,,,,,,,,,,my acceptance letter when I really thought it was a rejection letter.

I guess I got so used to nothing going my way and everything working against me that I just thought that there was no way I was going to get on the course.

 

The first person I told was my dad because he knew how much I wanted to get on it. All along he has been saying that he thought I would get on it but I had my doubts about it.

But hey I am on it and I couldn't be more pleased about it.

 

I think I will ring my mum after tea and let her know. I haven't even told her I was applying as I didn't think I would get on it so the less people I told about it the less I would have to tell I didn't get on it.

 

The introduction evening is on the 27th September, so two weeks on Tuesday, that is where I will meet my lecturers and fellow students. I will also get my timetable and will fill out the proper registration forms for the course.

 

I think this weekend I might pay a visit to the library to get some Law books out, beginner ones, so I can get a bit of a head start on the course because a lot of people on this course will have done some sort of Law course before like A-level or foundation level. I just hope that I am not the only one that hasn't done any kind of Law before as I don't want to struggle with it.

 

I know this course will be a lot of hard work but I am willing to put in the work even though at times I will be stressed out and other times I will be in a lazy mood and won't want to bother with it but I want a degree in Law and that means working hard and then in four years time I will have a degree in Law.

 

Of course I am carrying on with the OU. Nothing will stop me from that, well not another degree. It will be hard work doing them both together but it is really what I want to do so I am going to grab hold of it with both hands and get on with it.

 

 

 

Finished my FINAL TMA for A207

 

 

I did it!

 

I finished my final TMA for A207...... and of course I am over the moon about that!

 

I spent about 5 hours on this TMA though I did spend a while looking over the question before I started and during doing the TMA I kept looking at it with hope that something would come to me to help me write my best TMA to date.

 

I feel like a big massive weight has been lifted off my shoulder now that the final TMA is out the way. I feel great for once and not bogged down with study. It is a nice feeling.

 

I even managed to post my TMA 2 days before I normally post it so it will probably be with my tutor now as I write this.

 

I am a little nervous about getting it back as I don't want to fail and I really don't know what I will get score wise but as long as I pass I will be more than happy.

 

A207 isn't an easy course so it has been a trying nine months so far and I am not the only one who has struggled with aspects of the course including how fast the course moves and if I had to pick again I don't think I would do the course again even though there are aspects of the course that I really enjoyed.

 

Now I have to write up a revision plan as this is revision time that I am now in. I need to revise and revise hard for this upcoming exam as this is my first exam and I am very nervous about it and I do wonder if I will cope with the pressure of an exam.

It should be interesting that is for sure and I will get through it as long as I can go to the loo half way through. sometimes nerves gets the better of me.

 

3 hours the exam is.....I don't know if I can sit still for that long so I might have practise sessions in about a months time. Or maybe even before then as I need to get use to sitting still for three hour writing. I know if I have to sit writing for more than 30 minutes my arm hurts (my wrist) so I hope that isn't the case when it comes to the exam.

 

Wish me luck as I will need it......

 

 

Well

I started my TMA....yay....well that was the other day and I managed to do less that 100 words.

I left it all day Friday and I went back to it today (Saturday) and I took it up to 700 words and that was really hard to do.

I have worked out I need to do another 200 words on that part of the TMA as I don't think I will be able to do 500 words each on the next two parts.

I think for one of the parts I am going to use Sir John Sloane, I may pick my mind if that it too hard or I can't think of more than 200 words to write on him.

For the other person/text/picture I don't have a clue. I don't think that I want it to be a picture as there is no way I could write 500 words on a picture in relation to the question I have to answer.

To find out what I am going to use I will have a quick look through my course books to see all that I have done and maybe back over my TMA questions as it doesn't say you can't use the people/subjects you used in the TMA.

I need to write 400 words minimum on each of the two subjects, I don't know if I can do it but I will sure as hell try.

The 700 words I did today did come fast to me and maybe I should try harder with my TMAs and do draft after draft but I always find that I never do anything better than what I originally do.

I just hope that I can do enough.