I'm actually baffled right now. I just joined the forum and went straight to this thread as I was unable to find a thread for my course and uni specifically. Things have gone from naught to 60 in a day.
I'm 27, currently unemployed, living in an Edinburgh council flat, hating life with Job Center Plus, with health issues affecting my availabillity for work, and living desperatly. Ucas was nothing but rejections for months with an unimpressive result from an Acess to HE Social Sciences course I done in 2014, with no chance of resitting, and I dropped out of the HNC Social Sciences i was lucky to be doing at the final hurdle when my step dad died suddenly and I was made homeless by the housing association during the final exam period. I wasn't even offered another chance. And I had zero family support as they where too aggrieved to worry about me passing exams.
Out of nowhere, yesterday, I was given an unconditional offer to do BA Scottish Cultural Studies and Scottish History at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness, so now I'm trying to secure accomodation and ...calm doon. Completly relocating for 4 years, my first time starting at Uni, doing BA. Sure, I made the application but my expectations where so low, I had almost given up hope this year, so all this has come as a massive shock.
I've only got 3 - 4 weeks to secure accomodation in Inverness, give up my council home, get mentally prepared for whats comming and say bye to my beloved rescue kitty I got 2 years ago for emotional support (lol). What even is life?
My life is about to change in a big way, and I'm intimmidated. Will I be accepted socially at my age? will I cope mentally? Am I up to the challange? My self esteeem has been at rock bottom, Job Center is good at that, yet I've never felt more positive or pumped for what's comming.
Incidentally my dream career is to go to Japan for english teaching and cultural exchange, so getting into a cultural studies and history course about my own country is probably second best result to doing Japanese studies, which only Edinburgh Uni teaches in the whole of scotland. I can't even count my blessings right now.
Freaking out.