e-jess.com » Start http://e-jess.com Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:51:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Slightly nervous http://e-jess.com/slightly-nervous http://e-jess.com/slightly-nervous#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:12:32 +0000 Jess http://e-jess.com/?p=18 Another blog entry! 19 days to the start of my course. My mood has changed slightly from overwhelming excitement to slightly nervous! I’m not sure why to be honest, i think it just dawned on me that I’ll be starting University and will be working towards a degree! Is so far from where I’ve been at in my life the past few years. I never thought I’d be preparing for study at the Open University, thats for sure.

Slowly more and more of the StudentHome website is becoming available to me, I’m now able to read over the course materials online (the material I’m waiting to arrive in the post). I haven’t given it too much of a read, as Ill do that when it arrives in the post, but has been good to see more in depth what each unit is going to contain.

I don’t quite understand at the moment how the study actually works (something I’ll need to find out about..). I’m guessing it revolves around the course forum though.

Have further introduced myself on the forum, so hopefully some good solid study friends can come out of that.

Mood: Anxious
Stage in course: Waiting for course starting date.

]]> http://e-jess.com/slightly-nervous/feed 0 Registered for M150, October 2009 http://e-jess.com/registered-for-m150-october-2009 http://e-jess.com/registered-for-m150-october-2009#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:50:31 +0000 Jess http://e-jess.com/?p=16 I was pretty overwhelmed the first time i logged in to the student section of the open university website. There was so much to take in, and such a wealth of information, i just didn’t know what to make of it all. After a brief moment of ‘Panic!’, i took a deep breathe and looked a little more closely at the StudentHome front page.

The StudentHome recommended i read through ‘New to OU Study’, so i decided to take some time out to read over everything so i could orientate myself to the OU and to work out what to expect.

Was definitely the right course of action. I felt so much better after reading over everything. I was able to find my way to my email in-box, and subsequently managed to find the M150 course forums. I felt much calmer after introducing myself.

I then managed to find the ‘Courses’ section of the StudentHome, and realized that my course materials had been dispatched. I expected them to be sent 3 weeks before my course start date, but didn’t realize that we had already reached 3 weeks before. Dam! The time had flown by.

I’m looking forward to my course materials arriving, so i can sort out all of the papers and file the items in to some form of order. I actually am looking forward to reading over the material!

I think I’ll relax a little more when the details of my tutor arrive. Knowing when the course tutorials will be will also help.

I really didn’t think I’d be as excited as i am. The course is going to give me something to work towards, something to focus my time, give me direction, something i’ve not had in a very, very long time.

I’m not yet sure if I’m going to make the blog entries public, or private, but am hoping to be able to track my progress, so i can look back and be able to work out how i coped at the different stages of the course.

Mood: Excited
Stage in course: Waiting for the course to start.

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