Yesterday I received my enrolment pack from my college and I was waiting for this packs for ages so I was glad when it arrived. This pack has all the useful information like when the drop in days are, shockingly when my enrolment date is, and other information such as the fees and start of term.
My £95 course fee is same for either media course so if I do well in the GCSEs I can do the BND and if I do okay, I can do the First Dip. I feel that I have made the right choice doing Media at the collage as I felt that my school has left me down in many areas, and going into the sixth form would be stupid. Also the sixith form doesn’t have their own Media suite and can’t offer what the collage does.
Wikipedia freaked me out though as it used to mention that there is more students then media jobs, this has now got removed as there wasn’t a cite to prove this was true. Even if this was true, you could still make money from media from making a website such as Weebls Stuff. They made flash videos that people found funny and it showcased their skills. This meant that companies contacted them to pay them to create stuff for them. A recent example of this is the Cadbury’s Creme Egg Twisted.
One of the things I found amusing in the many documents of the pack is the risk assessment bit. It warns you of the activities you could be doing and what the risk are. I do take it seriously and agree with it but you have to be stupid to do some of the things it mentions like using dangerous props or walking onto train tracks. It not just a list of what you can’t do but advises you how to do things safely like with fires, that you should be over 10 metres away and have permission from the fire brigade.
I chucked the bus information out of the booklet as I will be doing either a 3 mile walk or cycle to the collage. I wish that they included more information about them two things as it would of been helpful. I’m happy with the concept of not catching a bus again as I will be saving loads.
Once I have enrolled, I would need to agree that I won’t take part of any computer related activity that could disgrace the college or make the collage open to legal action. This means that I will never mention the name of the college on here and try not to talk about the collage as much as possible.
I can’t wait until college starts.. I’m all excited!
