A few weeks in......how is everyone finding it?

So we are a few weeks in to study and how are all of you ladies coping?

I don't particularly feel very organised and feel like I could just get swallowed up by it all especially if I fall behind in my reading. I am doing a double degree- nursing/midwifery and am struggling with the anatomy and physiology subject seen as I have no chem/biology back ground. Although I feel a bit better about it today cos I now realise I don't need to know the all the detail that the lecturer is going into thankfully!!

So I am patiently waiting for that settled/organised feeling to happen :lol:

I'm at the end of my nursing degree and although I feel organized I am still slightly panicked, we are out on placement all ready in specialized areas and it's feeling a little real.


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I hear you on anatomy and physiology. I am reading the lecture slides (pre lecture) and copying them into my notes, then reading the textbook, then going to the lecture, then reading through it all again and it's starting to sink in but it's really difficult. The rest seems not too bad, a lot of reading though. I have the twins in daycare 5 days a week and I'm so grateful as I have a day and a half committed to study which makes it easier.

Girls watch out for patho in your 2nd year "barf"


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:lol: thanks, here I was thinking A&P would be the worst of it!!!

I have been on My A&P website and am seriously considering Chemistry for dummies :lol: It's just so full on!! Luckly everything else at this stage is gelling cos I find it's kind of common knowlege IYKWIM

I love being back! I'm doing Primary Education and this year is much more hands on than 1st year, I love it!

Full on crazy and stressful!!!

I have kids in CC 1 day a week to facilitate me to do placements 1 day a week, starting monday coming placements are, previous weeks I have had other things on for work that have worked out well.

I am up late everynight reading and researching articles for my assignmemts 1st due 8th april!!!

I have managed a grand total of 2 hours of study so far. Not good since I am doing two papers. DH has promised me a day this weekend to hopefully get a good chunk of a rapidly approaching assignment done.

I am behind already :( I'm waiting for my text book to arrive that was on backorder, so m information is limited.... :( I hope things are going better for you girls

I'm studying this year too - teaching science (chem and some biol) so have to teach some of the stuff you're finding hard. Wish me luck!

Im behind already (sigh) especially because the Uni has taken forever to grant me my credits.

Anyone else really hate the group work? Maybe its just because I find it difficult being external but sheesh, I really wish I could just work alone.

I'm doing a double degree social work/arts (psych major).

I'm only pt but I'm hating it already. I feel like every spare minute is spent on reading that I don't even need to pass the subject!!

Had my first 2 assessments for psych already (there is one every week) then a major assignment in June and an exam. No rest whatsoever.

Same as you girls, looking forward to feeling settled!

And yes I HATE the group work. We have 7 people in our group. 1 dropped out Already and 2 more we haven't heard from.... So frustrating!

Freya, I hate group work too! Having to rely on other to get their act together is so frustrating!

So far it's not been too bad. I had two essays that were dead boring, so they were hard to get into, but I got one done and submitted and I realised the other one wasn't due for another week so that was a bonus. My semester is pretty light on really - but I'm sure that next semester will bite LOL.

I'm also doing a double degree...Social Work and Law. This is my first year studying law and am feeling slightly overwhlemed as I haven't had a chance to do alot of reading this week. But what I have read I am loving it! And I already love Social Work so bonus! Just glad I made the right decision with taking on law as well.

Lol I feel sorry for you girls! I'm only doing the STEPS program and I'm getting SLAMMED - missed Tertiary Prep and Computing on Wednesday night because I just couldn't find the energy to get dressed and go to class - and DD1 was at daycare all day so it wasn't like I'd been hugely busy at home :/
I'm having fun though, and proud of myself that I'm (barely!) managing to get ahead in my classes - I'll be absent the week after next due to surgery so I really have to bust my buns this week and finish what I'm catching up on and charge forward so I don't fall really behind.

I just realized how complainy my post is...... I'm glad I'm doing it. Just feel like I miss out on time with dd and dh.

Like this weekend....... 2 full days on campus for psych then back to work Monday

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Anyone else really hate the group work? Maybe its just because I find it difficult being external but sheesh, I really wish I could just work alone.

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I do but I don't but I do... lol I've had one lot of group work where everyone was fantastic and everyone put in their fair share of effort... what I HATE about group work is having 'those' people in your group who think they can ride on everyone elses hard work and still claim the same credit for the final outcome. It annoys me to no end.

My assessments feel like they're one on top of the other, one due on the 31st March, 1st April, 14th April... pretty much one every 2-3 weeks... plus teaching placements.

I've done no group work yet, but I'm getting really annoyed by some of the younger people on the course. Talking at the back of lectures I expected, but sitting with their backs to the tutor in a tutorial (whilst she is speaking to us all) and constantly facebooking on their phones! So rude!! In one of my pracs there is a girl who sits at every opportunity, even when everyone else is having a standing conversation and trying out physicals tasks, she just sits there looking bored.

Maybe I am just a grumpy old woman :lol: but if they don't want to listen and learn I don't understand why they are there.

I have a mid semester exam on A&P in an hour or so and I don't think I can cram anymore stuff in my brain :o I am hoping the exam isn't as scarey as I think it will be. There is just so much to know!!!

Also have an assignment due on monday so looks like I'll be stuck in my study all weekend. On a good note though I have gotten my 2 youngest kids into the daycare at uni one day a week (not my preferred day mind you), so thats one day where I will be able to do some study during the day and not after the kids are in bed :dance: .

I have my first placement coming up at the end of May and am trying to find out all I can about the hospital and hoping they are nice ;) . And I don't have to be away from home for the week which is a plus.

How is everyone else going? I am feeling a bit more settled with the school work now but my house is out of control :lol:

Essay 1 is finished I just need to submit!! Been finished since tuesday just need to get game to sumbit its due fri.

Good luck with your exam

my mid trimester exam for A&P is next Tuesday, I will be stalking this thread for how you get on Hannahbanana

Things have settled for me - had two assignments due on Friday just gone and one two weeks before that. Now I don't have any due till the start of May, the end of May and then the start of June and one online quiz Two of those assignments I have nearly finished so I can't complain at all atm.

Well my exam was crap!! It was all really technical terms and I was hoping for simple terms. I had enough time to go through and finish and then re-check it and I changed some answers and there is one I had right and changed and now it is wrong :shakehead: so I am kicking myself for that.

Gosh Trillian I wish I was as organised as you re assignments!!
Anyway off to write one that's due on monday........

damn, I was really hoping you would come on and tell me the exam was easy and simplistic :(

Off to study before Tuesday then!

Good luck for tuesday Traveller. Hopefully whoever writes your test puts things more simply than our lecturer did! I think for the next 20 lectures I won't dumb it down to understand it all, I'll just learn the technical stuff :o

Good luck for all your exams girls ;)
I just finished my prac. Now have to smash out two assignments (for missin one day of each prac) and three of our normal subjects ;( within two weeks give me strength!


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Wow exams already. My exams dont start till 5 June!!

I got the task of collaborating our group assignment which is a lot more work than I thought. 2 people haven't referenced at all and those same 2 haven't put anything into PowerPoint so now I have to create it for them based on their summaries. No one even closely stuck to the word limit so I have to cull without getting anyone upset. I haven't done a group assignment off campus before and feel like I jumped in the deep end.

After this one I've got a major assignment due mid may and another on 1 June before exams. So I'm cruising after this week, we have labs to do in between but they are only 700 words each so I don't really count them as assignments.

Gl with your exam on Tuesday!!!!

I'm also doing a double degree - arts/education (secondary).

I received my first essay results for this semester on Tuesday and I got 90%, so I'm pretty thrilled.

Smudgies_mum - I absolutely loathe group assignments.

I really hope there are no group assignments for my degree. I find group discussions in tutorials hard enough because half the group sit on facebook and add nothing to the discussion. I feel like bopping them on the head and saying 'pay attention!'. Have started studying for the exam on Tuesday but not getting very far. I intend to cram on Monday as I have pretty much no classes, then hopefully things will stick long enough to pass the exam :)

Wow I'm glad I went with TAFE and not uni because even that is hard work.

We are group assigning ATM and omg some people. We have a lady so stuck in her way she will not agree to anything else.
Luckily I have the job of writing it up so bugger her but I need to pass.
I have written up to versions of assignment one with her stubborn ways and one the rest of the group has done completing the task.
Wonder how that will go down.


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I have heard a few people say that TAFE is harder work that uni because you have a lot more contact hours, are you there a lot of the time?

I did off campus tafe - accounting and on campus tafe - hospitality and loved them both!! It's more hands on than uni which is very theory based so I find uni harder, mostly because keeping motivated is hard when all you do is reading and researching (until 3rd year for me)

Group assignments do suck!! But I guess for me its really an integral part of social work isn't it. We had a girl added to our group 4 days before the assignment wad due- so unfair!!! And 2 that didn't even make contact.

How did you go traveller?

I got my results today and it was way better than I expected at 75%. I am thrilled with that cos I was just hoping to pass. Some people didn't do to well at all.


Still waiting for feedback on some assignments now and luckly no group work yet.

That is a fantastic result Hannanat, you should be thrilled.

That's awesome Hannah! Well done :D I found the exam ok, I got a few answers definitely wrong but I think most are right, hoping for around 75% too which would really take the pressure off for exam 2. I'm surprised you got your results back so fast, we were told 2 weeks for results. Hopefully that's just worst case scenario and I get them this week.

Do you know what classes you will be doing in Geelong?

Trimester 2's timetable still says pracs and some tutes for the first mid subject on a friday at waterfront at 11 - 13:50 (prac) and 10 - 11:50 (tute) but we also have a tute time on our campus so it might only be pracs I may have to come for. Just have to wait and see till we allocate for our timetables.

I was suprised we got our results so fast, but my tutor is our head lecturer for A&P so I think she gave them to us before imputting them.

Fingers crossed you get a good result!!

I am def loving TAFE and I do learn better with more contact time but it does take up alot of time.. full days when every i have a subject.

I do think Uni would be a million times harder though. One great thing about TAFE..NO exams!!!!!!

Im currently doing my cert III in community services work and its awesome. Am going on to do my cert IV once I have completed this.




Well done Hannah and good luck Trav!

Congrats Hannah!!! That's a great result

Hannah, I got 75% in the 109 mid trimester test too! Yay us and our clever brains :D

thats excellent Traveller, takes a bit of pressure of for the end of trimester exam now doesn't it!!
I am now just waiting to get back a couple of assignments, one I can pick up today so I will later on.

So glad for the easter break, I needed a few days of R&R!!! Pity these next couple of days I will be starting another assignment..........just waiting for the motivation to hit!!