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Guess who’s now a fully registered University student at the University of Ulster?!

That’s right – after 14 years of a combination of Primary and Grammar School I’ve now progressed up the ladder to Full Time Third Level Studies following a programme which, at the end of, I will hopefully be a ‘Bachelor of Arts of the University of Ulster with Honours in French and Spanish. Registration was on Monday 15 September 2008 at the Coleraine Campus and it was more a case of musical chairs (without the music!) as each student had to enrol for modules, have the form signed off, pay for tuition fees, send the form to the Registry Office and collect their ID/Library Card (which this year wasn’t a pathetic piece of laminated paper!)

That done, there was an Induction for all YrI students in the Faculty of Arts, today – 16 September 2008 – whereby services of the University were outlined, tours of the campus and its facilites shown and queries raised. In the afternoon each had an interview with their Advisor of Studies. Al lthat remained to be done after that, for some, was to go back home and get pi*sed! Naturally I wouldn’t do something like that…or would I?