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Aug. 8th, 2020 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaselettI have been quiet - not hugely unusual for me these days, but still.
There's been a lot of stuff to deal with, financial and emotional and I have been tired in a whole load of ways. So, there's that.
Uni stuff, continues to be complicated. I have made the choice to wait to go back until prob January (they are still all for starting again in September - yesterday Preston (where Uni be) after lots of talk that it was coming for over a week, got added to the increased restrictions list.
And yesterday I got an email from the uni going on about final details. So, yeah. Not regretting that choice.
I...am worried about universities starting back up - a lot are going to do mostly online, but the students are all going back to the uni housing (have been speaking to a few second going into third year York students who are working with me at the mo - York is doing better for communication than UClan *heh*) There's the losing out on SO much of your uni chances (practical work, full use of libraries, the social nature of thing, all of the uni facilities.....). Uni costs sooo much these days, and they are not going to get value for that money.
AND the actual concerning thing, is the health side.
This is my third uni, third degree - freshers flu is ALWAYS a thing. September is ALWAYS uni plague month. And that's an unpleasant but passing illness. (I never got it, thankfully, but I did get the god awful flu that was going around my third year exam period - two months of feeling half dead and having no voice). Sickness spreads like crazy amongst uni students.
They're saying, here at least, that young people are the ones with the spiking infection rates and passing it on to each other more.
How in the heck has no one started to wonder if maybe, universities may be something to seriously consider. (People have been discussing it - and arguing that students should start anyhow, but it's rather short sighted in a lot of ways).
I know no one wants to be 'a year behind' or missing out on a year, people have queried what those students will do otherwise, but that just highlights more and more the way society here views people (in that the year must have a value). Online teaching, which has never been assessed to say if it's even fit for purpose, does not compare to what they would normally be getting, and there is a health risk.
(Open uni and the existing distance learning courses are different, because they are designed, and assessed as being delievered that way).
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In the meantime, I have gone back to my roots a bit.
I managed to finally get to working at the sorting office again in late June but it was at most 16 hours a week, normally 7, which just didn't work.
Then I spotted that the local commercial arch unit was recruiting for a project very close to home, and I applied. I just finished my first week, and it's taking some getting used to especially being out in the heat! (And social distancing is in force, which makes it interesting in some of the trenches).
It's nice to be doing archaeology again, but commercial archaeology does have it downsides. But, eh, 37 hours plus 7 hours overtime a week, not going to complain on the having work front.
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I hope you are all well.
There's been a lot of stuff to deal with, financial and emotional and I have been tired in a whole load of ways. So, there's that.
Uni stuff, continues to be complicated. I have made the choice to wait to go back until prob January (they are still all for starting again in September - yesterday Preston (where Uni be) after lots of talk that it was coming for over a week, got added to the increased restrictions list.
And yesterday I got an email from the uni going on about final details. So, yeah. Not regretting that choice.
I...am worried about universities starting back up - a lot are going to do mostly online, but the students are all going back to the uni housing (have been speaking to a few second going into third year York students who are working with me at the mo - York is doing better for communication than UClan *heh*) There's the losing out on SO much of your uni chances (practical work, full use of libraries, the social nature of thing, all of the uni facilities.....). Uni costs sooo much these days, and they are not going to get value for that money.
AND the actual concerning thing, is the health side.
This is my third uni, third degree - freshers flu is ALWAYS a thing. September is ALWAYS uni plague month. And that's an unpleasant but passing illness. (I never got it, thankfully, but I did get the god awful flu that was going around my third year exam period - two months of feeling half dead and having no voice). Sickness spreads like crazy amongst uni students.
They're saying, here at least, that young people are the ones with the spiking infection rates and passing it on to each other more.
How in the heck has no one started to wonder if maybe, universities may be something to seriously consider. (People have been discussing it - and arguing that students should start anyhow, but it's rather short sighted in a lot of ways).
I know no one wants to be 'a year behind' or missing out on a year, people have queried what those students will do otherwise, but that just highlights more and more the way society here views people (in that the year must have a value). Online teaching, which has never been assessed to say if it's even fit for purpose, does not compare to what they would normally be getting, and there is a health risk.
(Open uni and the existing distance learning courses are different, because they are designed, and assessed as being delievered that way).
-
In the meantime, I have gone back to my roots a bit.
I managed to finally get to working at the sorting office again in late June but it was at most 16 hours a week, normally 7, which just didn't work.
Then I spotted that the local commercial arch unit was recruiting for a project very close to home, and I applied. I just finished my first week, and it's taking some getting used to especially being out in the heat! (And social distancing is in force, which makes it interesting in some of the trenches).
It's nice to be doing archaeology again, but commercial archaeology does have it downsides. But, eh, 37 hours plus 7 hours overtime a week, not going to complain on the having work front.
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I hope you are all well.
