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Unplanned year out
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A while ago I posted about possibly taking a year out from uni as recovering from surgery and keeping up really wasn't working.
In the end I had very little choice, trying to keep up wasn't working, so I'm taking the year out. A few people said that they had done a similar thing, I was wondering, did you get better before the end of the academic year? If so what did you do with the rest of the year?
Did anyone have an unplanned gap year and if so what did you do with it?
I'm doing a teeney bit of babysitting and tutoring at the moment, but still getting better, and am not going to do anything until I'm completely better and have got most of my fitness back. Have decided that since time is on my side I'll try and do things properly. Finance isn't too much of an issue, my parents have said that while I'm back at home they'll treat me the same as before I went to uni, so it's rent free and I get 'pocket money' like my two younger brothers. Result is that day to day if I don't want to do anything interesting I'm ok for money, but anything else I'd have to pay out of wages etc.
Any ideas or personnal experience of what I could do with the time?h
In the end I had very little choice, trying to keep up wasn't working, so I'm taking the year out. A few people said that they had done a similar thing, I was wondering, did you get better before the end of the academic year? If so what did you do with the rest of the year?
Did anyone have an unplanned gap year and if so what did you do with it?
I'm doing a teeney bit of babysitting and tutoring at the moment, but still getting better, and am not going to do anything until I'm completely better and have got most of my fitness back. Have decided that since time is on my side I'll try and do things properly. Finance isn't too much of an issue, my parents have said that while I'm back at home they'll treat me the same as before I went to uni, so it's rent free and I get 'pocket money' like my two younger brothers. Result is that day to day if I don't want to do anything interesting I'm ok for money, but anything else I'd have to pay out of wages etc.
Any ideas or personnal experience of what I could do with the time?h
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also, f your course was modular, it might also be possible, depending on your uni for you to return in january.
Personally if I had a lot of time on my hands I'd do plenty of reading relevant to my course so I'd be really ahead with it when I went back next September.
Maybe you could start a creative hobby like embroidery, knitting, glass painting, sketching, baking, photo or video editing, writing a book?
From that so far I'm thinking I'll go back to jewellry making until I'm completely better, at which point I'll find a job.
My Open Uni course cost about £300 and only lasted from Jan to Sept:eek2:
To the OP, the jewellery making sounds good, but might you not get a bit bored doing that constantly until you're better?
I'm only really bored school hours because then brothers get home and chaos returns and I get to play at being a homework supervisor, there's a fair amount of laundry, cooking, cleaning etc to keep me going too.
I'm still after ideas if anyone has any, I'll be bored of them by the end of the week! But then it's nearly Christmas.:yippe:
if so, why not take up scrapbooking? it`s very addictive!
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well if you do, maybe you could get a mini album and make one for your friends as a crimbo present, a little book of photos of you and your mates
pass the time AND get a couple of stockin fillers out the way
work experience. Littleali's idea about photos is a good idea as well.
They do a whole range of courses that have different lengths. A 10 point course usually lasts about 12 weeks. It sounds like you did a 30 0r 60 point course. The one I am currently doing is Oct - June and is nearly £600 but I got a grant to cover the fees.