Go to University and get a degree

I know i’m yet to confirm a place at college but I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t get into them! When I went to one of the colleges the tutor really stressed that we should be looking into universities now and which ones we would like to apply to as we will have to do it at the end of the year and it’s a big decision. So I have just booked myself onto the open days of four universities I am interested in, all taking place in October. A little way off but i’m glad I have them booked so I can go and see them for myself as well as reading about them and then it will be easier to make a decision.

The decision has been made – I am moving in with my boyfriend in September! I have decided to create a new goal about gaining qualifications to go to uni as it is seperate to this goal.

Watch this space re uni!!

Well I have been thinking long and hard about a lot of things and looking into options. With the economy as it is now it is pretty impossible to move back to my parents as there are no jobs around, I have sent my CV to lots of people but it is a small town and there is just nothing there. So that ends that one.

My lovely, lovely boyfriend may have come up with an answer to help me do what I really want to do though. My local college runs an Access course in Nutrition which would be perfect and I haven’t seen it anywhere else before. It would be great to do this to get a good footing and a better understanding of the subject before embarking on a degree. However this does require attendance during the day which means I can only work part time which I cannot afford to do at the moment. However my boyfriend has his own place and is proposing that I live with him so that I don’t need to pay any rent which would enable me to do the course!

Now I have thought about all implications and I know that we’d love to live with each other so it is an amazing opportunity for me and in some ways feels like fate.

I haven’t decided 100% yet as I want to think about it for a little bit longer just to be sure, but this could be the solution I need!

I think I may have been having a bad day when I wrote my first entry for this! Deep down I think i’ll always be a little bit sad that I didn’t do this earlier on when I was a lot more care-free, but I now realise that if I want a career I love and it requires a degree then I just have to get on and do it, regardless of my age. And in reality, if I had done a degree when I was 18 I could bet my life it would have been in something useless to me now – like English Literature! I want to be a fully qualified Nutritionist and I have to get a degree to do this.

I have been researching ‘A’ Levels and Access courses (both of which I have tried before!) I got quite far in my Access course last time and had to leave due to personal reasons, but I think this is what I would prefer to do. However I am seriously contemplating a move back to my parents for a year to pay off my credit card and save a little bit before doing a degree. Due to this I think the only viable option is doing ‘A’ Level evening classes, as Access requires attendance during the day.

More thinking and research to do, I hope to make a firm decision within a month!

This is the goal I am having most trouble with. I am going to be 27 this year, and as of yet I have no formal qualifications to go to university with. I have tried twice to gain the qualifications but for various reasons I have not managed it. I deeply regret not going to university when I was younger and it comes back to me all the time. I am now contemplating giving it another go, as it is something I have always wanted to do and now I have found something I really want to study and work in afterwards.

The only problem is I keep feeling like i’ve left it too late, I know that I am not that old and you’re never too old to do anything you want however I keep feeling like at this time I should be settling and getting a well paid job to set myself up for a home and children etc. I know I won’t have the same experience at uni that I would have had when I was younger, and I get a little jealous of everyone I know who has had that.

Can I cope with being a student at this time of my life and being broke all the time? But can I live my life having never been to uni?

Moving this to my list.

I don’t know. I have always liked Psychology. I want to do something to help people. What does that mean? I don’t know. I picture myself on more of a global than local basis. But doesn’t everyone? There are many problems facing the world today, and i would like to learn more about (everything?) so i can figure out where i can fit in to really make a difference.

I also am really interested in language. English, and others. Modern and ancient. I would like to do something with language, and as i am not planning to study until i have returned from travelling, i will hopefully have more language in my power to play with. And more knowledge to study.

And the other thing is photography. I would love to study photography, and just be able to play with cameras and pictures and study depth and light and history and future. What a dream! But i think this is something i really want to get more of a grasp on before i go overseas, it makes sense really. And i don’t know if getting a degree in fine arts/photography is really what i want. It’s more of something i want to do forever as a hobby and sideline to whatever i do, not study to make a career soley out of.

But, it changes every week.