My Role as a Student In Higher Education
My initial thoughts of being a student in higher education has been changing as the months have gone by with my first set of thoughts being optimistic as I had never attended a university before and was not sure of what to expect.
The first week was tough for me as attendance was being pointed out, having students turning up to lectures late, proving to be a distraction. I am understanding that I am on a professional course where being on time is key to having a professional image. To start of with we had to attend certain rooms to show our exam results, get our student ID and attend a lecture at a specific time. This all seemed chaotic as their was never ending queues for both and by the time I attended both I had missed the lecture, giving me the impression of the university being disorganised. Once my real lectures began I enjoyed meeting my class, getting along well which I feel is because we are all aiming for the same goal. Unlike school where you get a disrupting pupil, In my class I feel everyone is mature and respectful of each other and as a class we set up class rules which we follow. I have learnt a lot of team working skills through group discussions and group activities, learning to respect others opinions.
As soon as I was getting to know my tutor and my class their was more disruption, splitting up and forming new classes for a separate module. I was not keen on this idea as I was settling perfectly in my original class, feeling the universities disorganisation again. Within my new class, I noticed we all had mixed feelings about the situation at hand and we all agreed we needed to keep our minds open, adapting to my new class but I feel I struggled with the socialising as I only saw them once a week.
One thing I have noticed is that the role of being an adult learner has been shown throughout all my modules, having weeks off to complete set work. I have a module set to complete in my