Hello my fellow students!

Me! But no Homer - weekly reading, both novels and texts, plus learning parts of Swahili and Aztec and essays on linguistic conventions and transcription! Also, don't forget part-time work at the NHM! Woo!

(Good luck to us!) ^_^

Nice to meet you. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Yep!

Second year geology, have to do a 3000 word report, plus lectures and assingments along with practicals. I'm also going out for Halloween so no idea what I'll be like for the actual start.
Currently social sec for the New Lyell commitee and just starting learning and playing Lacrosse.

*feels insane*

Think I'll say goodbye to being social for 30 days.

I'm writing this, along with my college timetable, essays on Romeo + Juliet, essays on short stories, on Hitler & god knows what else!

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I've just started my degree and have my first essay due in on the 12th, so, it could be worse, but I'm pretty work-rusty. Obviously nano will fit in around everything somehow.

I'm doing my A2s this year so I hope I'm going to be able to fit everything in! Last year I had to drop out of NaNo because I couldn't keep up with all my homework as well as finding time to write. We've been getting less work to do at home so far this year, though, so hopefully I'll be able to fit everything in!

i am a 3rd year phd student.. so this is good practice for me.. this summer i will have another insane deadline to write another thick tome that no one will ever read :-D

I'm doing four OU courses on web design and programming - which is the reason why I'm not going to be deliberately doing two novels this time.

Well... My degree is in 'Creative Writing' - don't snigger -
So. In November I have to....
- write a 1000 word sketch set during the English Civil War, plus a 500 word commetry
- Write a 1000 word critical review of a Play that I have yet to see
- Write a 1000 word autobiograph extract plus 500 word commetry

- So, all this is due between the 7th and the 12th of November.

Plus... I need to start my dissertation which is the first 3 chapters of a novel (coincedentally this is also aabout the English Civil War but not due till next year). there is Nano and I need to keep trying to get my work 'out there' - I'm, currently writing a short story for Interzone magazine.

normally I'd maybe sacrifice some of my Uni time but it's my final year and I need to try and get over 70% in each piece of coursework if I'm going to get a half decent degree.

I really wish that i'd taken a theoretical module this month.

First post here, woo, etc.

I'll be combining it with a 1500 word comparison between the psychoanalytic methods of Freud and Adler, as well as another 1500 words on a question of my choice from a list.

...fun?!

I only decided to take part yesterday and so have absolutely no idea what I'm going to be writing about... got tomorrow to sort it out I suppose!

EDIT: Woo, I just rechecked my coursework deadlines and apparently the essay for which I can choose the question is due in December and I just had it wrong in my mind.

Uh yea, Student here! This'll be my 4th Nano, but I have so much I have to be doing during this month that for the first time I'm panicking. I really really want to be able to just say I'll try again next year and forget about it, but I caaaan't! I'm addicted to Nano!

I have a documentary to design, film, edit and screen, a script to write, two essays to begin and a new job to work at....all over November. Oh, and I have no proper plan for my novel. It's doable.........right?!

Hey everyone!

I'm a student too - second year medicine, it's pretty hectic so trying to fit this is as well should be fun! My very first time, so we'll see how it goes...!

Great! I am a PhD student too... First year. Just moved to London, trying to adjust. I do best when busy so I've just decided to go for it.

...does 6th form count as being studenty enough? We like to think of ourselves as students.

I'm a 'Media Writing' student ("with the emphasis on the writing" I can't help but add when I tell people...anything with the word 'media' in the title has such a terrible reputation these days) so hope to use some of my novel as coursework, and vice-versa. We'll see how well that works out. I also do four shifts a week in a local bar, which annoyingly eats into my evenings, which have always been the most productive time of the day for me. Oh well. Good luck everyone!

Hehe, 6th form is indeed studenty! If you're studying you're studenty!

Yeah, I'm a first year English and Creative Writing student, so I'm expecting to cry off how bad my essays are due to NaNo - this is the first year I've decided to try it, on the basis that with my course, I probably should.
However, I do have reading week next week. A whole week of uninterrupted writing, hopefully, especially if my internet doesn't get fixed.

Yep! I am doing a library MA at City University, but it is not a writing-intensive or classtime-intensive course so if I fail, there is noone to blame but my laziness or lack of plot.

Hay I'm a 6th former too but don't actually study in London (it's not as interesting as it sounds) and I'm trying to avoid all my essays to write. I'm a good student, don't you know? It's not like I've got UCAS or A2s or anything coming up...:D

...Oh wait :(

Another 6th former here! Doing AS at the moment, four disconnected subjects with lots of lovely homework being set in November. Well, keeping up with everything so far... apart from that History sources paper for tomorrow... oh, and the Maths Challenge... and the Biology coursework...

You know, maybe keeping up with work isn't exactly the phrase for it? Never mind, eh?

Hahah! Good luck with all that jazz. Am in the same boat and it's getting a little hellish right now. Have a Virginia Woolf coursework essay which I obviously have to do and am trying to prepare for language interviews at uni. Yay!

Nano-ing is very theraputic though, and very fun :)

Good luck to all other students out there :)

oh yes. I have a business paper for 3,500 words due in my third year business writing class. But its all so much fun!

Also a 6th former...I'm guessing that AS levels aren't getting in the way as much as A2 will next year...and then university...

It's just going to get harder, isn't it?

Anyway, I still haven't started my English coursework, and I'm trying to pretend that my History essay and two sets of Art coursework don't exist. Then there's the Latin. And the Latin never ends.

Still, so long as I finish nano, it doesn't matter if I fail all my coursework, right? Right?

I'm doing my AS too, gotta love the Latin! Ah, Tacitus, of the 'one word instead of the ten you actually need to say that' writing technique. How very great the rift between us seems. (hey, it's nearly 3 am, i'm allowed to be weird)

*ponders* Does NaNo look good on a UCAS, or does it just make you look like a dork? *ponders*

Ever tried Latin prose composition? Believe me, the Tacitus method becomes a life-saver!

Yay Latin! (A2 student here...) I used NaNo in my personal statement, and Manchester and Warwick gave me offers... Especially if you're applying for an arts subject (I applied for Classics), put it down! :)

Tell me about it. It is possible that this method will become a life-saver if I ever actually get any good at Latin, but at the moment it just causes me to stare in desperate bafflement at the page going WHERE ARE THE WORDS DAMNIT?

If Tacitus had done nano, he would have realised the value of using as many words as conceivably possible...

*is extremely tempted to put nano on her UCAS form*