Induction Week (Welcome Week)

So Welcome Week,

Or Fresher's Fortnight as it was known, flew by!

It was so much fun though.  Plenty of freebies, pens, pizza, sweets, popcorn...it goes on.

Take full advantage of this when you can in Freshers, those free pens come in handy!

It was a whirlwind though. Met plenty of people from my course through all four branches (Adult, Child, Mental Health and Learning Disability).  We had the local radio station down at the university doing giveaways, we had the society fair where you can sign up for all manners of societies depending on your interests and how much free time you think you may have.  It was a lot of fun.  

As i am doing Learning Disability Nursing, or in fact nursing in general, our Welcome Week was induction week.  This meant that we were in a lot of lectures and tutorials to allow us to get to know the structure of the course and general health and safety stuff that we need to know. It did mean that we may not have had as free a week as some other students, but nursing is full on from the word go essentially.  So be prepared to work hard! 

We had classes on health and safety, fire training, introduction to each module and information on how the course is structured.  We were told how to use the library, how to search for resources, how to access our university email and how our placements worked.  

Of course this sort of information will be individual to the university you attend and how the course is structured. 

Welcome Week passes so quickly and i cannot believe how mad it was. Finding your way around campus and finding everyone, meeting up with people and organising how you are going to study is crucial.  As once lectures get underway it is fast paced and it is important you keep up with everything.  

It was a fun week and one in which you see many student going out, getting to know one another and discovering university for the first time.  As i had already been to university, this Welcome Week was very different! The difference in the younger Freshers to the older ones is somewhat evident when you can see people coming in first thing in the morning for lectures! 

Overall, Welcome Week...enjoy it!