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There are loads of students on the DE100 forum, loads in Scotland and the groups are massive.  Having just come from a course where we couldn’t meet face to face, those of us with the same tutor used WhatsApp as a way to connect, motivate each other, and generally get bit of the student experience.

Moving on to DE100, there is a MASSIVE WhatsApp group already, and when we all got our tutors today folks started breaking off to form a group for their tutor group.  So I did too, and shared it on the forum so maybe those of us with the same tutor could connect in the same way we had on SDK100.  I didn’t bargain on my tutor not being happy with this and deleting my post and emailing me advising we have to speak to them if we have a problem not each other. 

No questions as to what the group was for (motivating each other, discussing student life etc) just a ‘I don’t want it so don’t do it’ feel to it.  I’m pretty isolated.  I don’t get out.  I’m pretty much at home as long a covid is a threat.  Now thanks to this email from my tutor I feel even more isolated and really not looking forward to this course now.  Enthusiasm has been replaced with this horrible feeling of not being allowed to socialise with my fellow students. I’ve emailed her to apologise but just feel so downhearted and teary.

What’s the actual point.... 😢

ETA: So my tutor has reached out and has suggested other ways to connect with students (most of which i had already done, but still they came back to me.)  I'm going to try to give it a go.  Lets face it, there are worse things happening in the world right now.

Thank you for the lovely comments. I would always go to my tutor for support with subject matter (and encourage fellow students to as well).