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General => I need to vent! => Topic started by: iggyelvis on September 15, 2014, 11:52:05 PM

Title: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 15, 2014, 11:52:05 PM

Deeply worried upset. Going to have support works and stuff but terrified and very low. More to it that that but nutshell.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 15, 2014, 11:53:58 PM

That should say 49 and I feel like I have pushed it to far. Family not helpful ans still expected to all their stuf.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: alex1973 on September 16, 2014, 05:08:51 PM

whats happened? Are you saying your going to go back to Uni now and its got too stressful?

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 16, 2014, 08:17:22 PM

I have not started yet. I am getting so panicked I can't do anything. I left work 4 years ago because I got too sick to work. I am scared that I will get too sick at uni

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: Pip on September 16, 2014, 11:05:22 PM

You can do this and you're stressing because of the reasons for leaving your job.  Once you start uni just take it one day at a time.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 16, 2014, 11:08:17 PM

What is worrying is I want to fido less and less. I am looking forward to being asleep. I have asked to see my we tutors but I am not sure that will help.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 16, 2014, 11:38:57 PM

I am really sick. I know it is all going to collapse on me

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: Martin on September 22, 2014, 06:18:59 PM

How have you coped with the past few days? Hope you are managing.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 22, 2014, 10:02:24 PM

It has been not good my family invaded for two days. So I can't get my head around anything. Going to see my tutor tomorrow. She will think I am strange.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: Pip on September 27, 2014, 01:57:26 PM

How did it go seeing your tutor?

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on September 27, 2014, 02:24:27 PM

Ok. I think it will be a while before she gets me but we made some progress. I am still terrified. This week will be a real test.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: Pip on September 28, 2014, 10:24:13 PM

This week is going to be scary but just take it one day at a time.  I know that's easier said than done and try and imagine targets such as getting to Monday lunchtime then end of the afternoon and so on.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: iggyelvis on October 02, 2014, 10:53:47 PM

This week has been awful. I have had a bad cold and done no work. This means I am a week behind in a 3 week project. I feel like the opportunity to be level with everyone else has been snatched from me and I am panicking. I should have known better. I am rubbish at everything. I can talk a good game though.

Title: Re: Going back to uni at 40
Post by: stewart on October 29, 2014, 05:37:50 PM

Hi iggyelvis, going back to uni can be a good experience, I was in my late 40s when I went to uni and got my double major, also it made for some very interesting times in class discussions specially with the rest of the class being around 25-30 years younger.