Monday 15 August 2016

Education Part 4 (University)

this post is the final part (sort of) of this series of blogs about my experiences during education and at the moment university as an undergraduate is my last experience of education (it could change i may do a postgraduate course).
university is obviously quite different than compulsory education and even further education and in many cases it also involves living independently which was the case for me as i moved over 100 miles away from Kent to Southampton and i studies Football studies (yes it is a real course) at Southampton Solent University which is in the city centre. i think ive mentioned previously that as a part of living independantly at university i used to have a day which i did all the cleaning, washing up and laundry etc. although over time this changed quite a bit and became quite difficult due to other commitments (sports and uni work) especially throughout the later part of my 2nd year and my 3rd year. i also lived in student accomadation (shared flats) throughout all 3 years of my time at university which i think was probably a lot easier than having to find a student house to rent and share, im not aware of the reason (if there was any) for why i got a place in student accommadation for my 2nd and 3rd year there is a possibility it that it was due to dyspraxia but i cant be certain.
At the moment i currently look back on my time at university (its been just over a year now) as ok but nit brilliant or good im not certain as to why it may be that course wasnt right for me as i only liked a few of the topics that were covered this could change over time, it may have been different 4/5 years ago when i chose that course initially but at the moment i look at back the only stand out really good thing about my time at uni was a doing a handball coaching course and becoming involved with the Handball team at the University of Southampton over the rest of my time at uni and that has led to me doing some handball coaching and refereeing when ive come back home (which i find a bit ironic considering what i studied).
in term of actual university work and lectures etc. much of it was quite dull, i wasnt brilliant or terrible at any of it i always managed to get it done in time im not sure how with some of it and there was even some issues during my 3rd year so i had to change what my entire dissertation was going to focus on (and i know some people who will be reading this will have taken part in the survey about sports participation amongst dyspraxics so thank you).
as soon as i finished my uni work i went straight into all the details for my charity cycle ride for dyspraxia awareness.
at the present time overall university for me still feels like an ok option as i dont know what i would have done if i didn't go to uni and i may consider doing a postgraduate degree if i can find one that i like however some advice i would give to people looking  at going to university or going a different route is to spend quite a bit of time really thinking about the options that you have (especially if your school was/is anything like mine where everything was aimed at university and very rarely spoke about the other options in any depth) and then if you decide to go to university spend as much time as possible looking at every course you like the sound of and compare them all to each other and look at everything about the course (as courses with the same title can be very very different from each other) , the university and the area it is in especially if you were to be able to move away from home  

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