Sep 25, 2013, 03:15 pm
Hello,
I got an email telling me you inboxed me. For some reason it won't let me see it. I assume it's for advice on the Bachelor of Nursing (Mental Health) course.
I'm a week away (plus exams!) from completing first year. In first year everyone has the exact same subjects (Bach Nursing (Mental Health), Bach of Nursing (Business) and Bach Nursing). Us full time students have four units per semester. Depending on which units you might have as little as one hour per unit or up to seven each week.
My timetable this semester is Wednesdays 9-3pm and Thursday 2-6pm.
ACU are very flexible with their timetables. The students put them together themselves. You have to be very quick or all of the good times go quickly. I don't have any children so it is hard for me to say that you will cope, but this semester I had only 1.5 days on campus. The rest is all done in your own time at home. I don't go to any of the lectures (if I did I'd be on campus for 2 full days). The lectures are all uploaded online which means you can watch them from home or download them as a podcast to listen to on the train.
There is a parking lot right at our campus in Melbourne but it fills up very quickly in the morning and if it is full by the time you arrive there isn't a lot of parking elsewhere. The council are very quick with their fines too, so if you park on the street make sure the meter is always topped up.
Some mums start the course part time (2 units a semester instead of 4) just to see how they go and if they're coping they increase up to a FT workload. Maybe that is something to think about?
If you want to know anything else just let me know :)
Sarah
