being a student....again..

As of monday, I will officially be a student again. I will be starting my Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing. I know, it all sounds very posh doesn't it. I can assure you though, it will not be. Despite how much I am looking foward to starting it, in about 6 months there will be a lot of swearing, cursing, regret that I ever started the damn thing as I disappear under an ever growing pile of work, whilst trying to fit it in around my track time and an irritating daily occurance also known as work. That is, unless I can become the disiplined student that I was at university.
I was not what is percieved to be a typical university student; not much work, drinking, large social life, and bringing home a huge pile of washing every week. I always did my own washing for a start. I think it helped that the bar on campus was no bigger than the average living room, and contained a pool table, so very little drinking was done. The college was in the middle of nowhere too, so very little in the way of opportunities to develop a social life. So, I spent the majority of my time in the library, usually till gone midnight, researching for my assignments. It all paid off, after 4 years of hard study, I graduated with a 2:1 in Veterinary Nursing. I wanted a first, and my grades were sitting on the borders between a first and 2:1, but they graded me down.
Now, studying at home, there are more distractions, and more excuses to find distractions. I NEED to disipline myself, maybe work on a reward system. "when you've finished that assignment, you can spend 30 minutes on the x Box, and eat a large bar of chocolate."
I will also need to do a lot of studying at work too. Unfortunately, the idea of "finish this assignment, and you can have the rest of the day off," might not sit too well with other people!! I should be able to fit in eating the large bar of chocolate though.
Plus, I can always take notes down to the track with me and work down there, inbetween races anyway. This will also allow time to develop a whole new collection of excuses. Sorry, could not submit essay due to;
1. It blew into the middle of a racetrack and got shredded by 20 fast moving cars.
2. Fire extinguisher went off and covered it in foam
3. holes punched into it by flying gravel
4. Angry driver tore it up
Thats much more interesting than saying "sorry, but the dog ate it". More plausible for me too, I have no dog.
So, I have a timetable, new set of pens, notepaper and a new memory stick to put all of the work on. I think I'm ready for the student life again...