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Back to the drawing board
This post was going to start out with something like ‘I need to accept responsibility for what has happened and move forward’. I intending on just asking for a letter from the OU explain what had happened and transferring to a new degree and just getting on with things. However it’s apparently not going to go like that. They didn’t seem keen on letting me transfer to the maths and physics degree but rather seemed to keep pushing for transferring to the new natural sciences presentation and just doing enough credits to be able to pull my classification up to a 2.1, leaving me no chance of a 1st. As I explained what had happed (yet again!) I got quite upset about it (again!) and it dawned on me, no I wasn’t just going to except what has happened, it wasn’t be fault and it shouldn’t have happened. I then decided to push my complaint about what has happed again. And just to add to everything else I got an email the day after about options if I was to transfer which also contained a bit of information that I wasn’t aware of - I wouldn’t be eligible for tuition fee loans as I was a student under transitional arrangements, thus I would have to take a full year out and return to study then in order to get the loans. So, my plan of studying, and pulling up my grade and reapplying for medicine had gone sailing off into the sunset! As I don’t want to apply without the required degree in the bag (because I can’t go through this year again) I wouldn’t be starting a medicine degree for another 3 years, and I don’t want to be starting a 5 year degree in 3 years time, especially as there is no guarantee of it even happening. I want to feel secure, I want to start my career, I want to stop feeling so poor and most of all I just want a break. 
I don’t know really what will happen now, but it’s probably time to come to terms with the fact I won’t be becoming a doctor. 


So I have a largely free year ahead of me, no studying and greatly reduced working hours! It’s quite exciting really, I feel like I can get my life back and make space for all the other stuff in life I love. 

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