Well I haven't done much volunteering which is quite bad.  Again, I kind of wish I had.  Mainly because the work I have done has been to get money.  I kind of think that if I am putting hours in I want to get something out of it which is a very selfish horrible way to look at it but its quite difficult when you are a student if you need money to fit in volunteering as well.  So in terms of skills of volunteering I guess I don't have very much.

The skills I have developed in uni I think again are probably more than I realise especially from first and second years.  I really didn't think I was learning that much and it's only when you begin to write your dissertations and more important essays in the 3^rd year that you realise how far your writing has come on, my writing particularly, compared to what I was writing in the first year, its completely different and  has improved a huge amount.  So that is a definite skill. 

I have got reading as well, some of the reading took me hours in the first year just to do one article which would take me half an hour now.  So my academic reading has really really improved and the ability to take notes both in reading and in lectures.  In the first year looking back I used to write reams and reams of notes and not really get much out of them because you are just kind of copying down what you have read whereas in the 3^rd year I think it's really important to pick out the main points and link them in your own head to what kind of argument they are trying to make.  So that is quite an important skill.

Organisation and time management, that is a skill I have definitely improved on, particularly in the 3^rd year. where you have to do it.  You realise actually it's vital.