It has been a bit of a roller coaster since I found out that I had been accepted into uni. I will go into that on another post as it is going to be a long one.
On 6th January 2015, I found out that the University of Newcastle was having an advisory day, As I had never set foot on the university campus I thought I would go and have a look and maybe find out more information about the Nursing course.
I drove in and immediately knew I wasnt in Kansas anymore. It was huge!!!! I have been to University, so I was expecting it to be big, but this was HUGE!!!!!! It made my last university (University of Western Sydney) look miniature. I guess it is like the feeling you get when you are a kid and you walk around a high school for the first time.
As I drove around the University trying to find out where I was supposed to go, I could feel the nerves building. My stomach was gurgling and I had butterflies in my stomach. I eventually stumbled on a parking station that looked pretty full, so assumed that that was where I was supposed to go. As I walked up to the 'Great Hall' where the advisory day was being held, I noticed that all of the potential students looked very young. Hey I look very young for my age, but I knew I was a lot older than them. Suddenly the thoughts came into my head "what am I doing here?"
I walked into the Great Hall which was crowded with people and very loud with many peoples conversations. I couldn't see anything relating to nursing, so I walked back out and happened to stumble on a university tour starting. I tagged along with that. As we were walking along the tour guide asked who finished Year 12 the previous year. Everyone apart from a couple of us put up their hands. "What am I doing here????" again came into my head.
As the tour progressed we walked through one side of the campus and looked at the different schools. Medicine, engineering, and so forth. Then we were taken to another part of the uni which has a bank, cafes, subway, newsagents and load of other shops. The tour guides then asked us what we were looking at studying. I said "Nursing" and was immediately told that it was on the other side of the university.
As the tour started to walk I realised that there was no point in continuing on. There was nothing on the tour that would relate to nursing and so I was better off going and finding the nursing department on my own.
I got back in the car and found a map of the university and drove to a spot that was closer to the nursing school. As I walked around the School of Nursing, my nerves started to calm down a little bit. One, I was grateful that I had found the School of Nursing and I am sure I will be able to find it again. If you single out the School of Nursing, it is pretty big, but not as big as the Uni itself, so not so scary.
So here I am, 16th January 2015 and O week starts in one month. In the two previous degrees that I have done I have never been to O week, but I think I will go this time.
