Enrolment - Part 1

So in the last few days i've received my welcome pack from university as well as my starter pack. 

Its starting to make it feel a little bit more real now, although i don't think its really going to sink in until i get my student card and im sat in our induction lecture. 

Our welcome pack detailed when to enroll online and what to do. It gave us our university email address (time to start using that to get student discounts!) and information about what is happening in Welcome Week, which is also listed on their Facebook pages. 

These were sent out to all students, and the starter pack is individual to our school. 

For example, as i am doing Learning Disability Nursing i am part of the School of Nursing. 

So then our starter pack has been sent out detailing uniform times, enrolment times, our welcome week timetable and what to do for occupational health. 

So we have to log online to start our online enrolment, fairly straightforward and our welcome pack details how to do this. 

And then from there we attend our enrolment appointment at the university.  This is where i have to take evidence of all my previous qualifications, which should be fun trying to find them all and putting them all together.  Luckily i'm fairly organised anyway but after moving they are all still packed in a box somewhere! 

And once enrolment and our uniform is sorted we then need to attend an appointment for occupational health.  Once that is done we can then look forward to Welcome Week!

Welcome Week is the infamous Fresher's Week at most universities.

The university organises events for everyone to settle in and get to know one another.  During this week your school will also organise for you to go to induction lectures to give you your timetables, module information and your tutorial groups etc.

This is usually a time where everyone is feeling just as nervous as you probably are and everyone is in the same position.  

Luckily, today we have social networking sites where people can get to know one another a little before they meet at university. At the risk of sounding somewhat old, when i first attended university Facebook, Twitter etc weren't really up and running as such then and i went to university completely blank. I didn't know what to expect, who was going to be there and what was going to happen.  But i put myself out there and purposely went and knocked on other flat doors in the halls of residence i was in. This way i was able to meet people and l made some good friends this way. 

I can start my online enrolment next week (this is earlier than other students as nursing and midwifery students start earlier and we also are at university longer during the academic year).

It still doesn't feel massively real but it is exciting and unbelievably exhilarating knowing i have gotten this far.  

Work hard and you can achieve anything.