Firstly I am so sorry it has take me so long to write another post. It has been an absolutely crazy few weeks full of exams and results and the dreaded ... goodbyes!
Everyone who has graduated from university will no doubt no exactly how I am feeling right now.. it is so strange!
One day you are revising and stressing and wishing that your exams would hurry up and finish but then they do and before you know it you have emptied your bedroom, cleared your kitchen and you are back in your room at home.
It really is quite the anticlimax ... I am looking around my room at the garish pink that I thought was my favourite colour, aged 15. I have tried to bring a touch of uni back with me but it isn't the same, the days of student houses are now gone for me and it actually feels quite sad!
I can honestly say going to university was the best thing I ever did. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I literally chose a subject I liked, that was my only reasoning but as the years passed I enjoyed it and clicked with it and along the way met friends I will keep for the rest of my life; it was such a great thing for me.
For anyone out there with even a hint of desire to go, then do it!
It's not always easy, if you are anything like I was you will feel rotten for the first few weeks, you'll long for home and family and friends, you won't like being cooped up in a tiny bedroom with a bathroom you have to share with people you don't know, the food won't taste nice and you'll miss your television and home comforts BUT if you push through that its amazing how much you end up missing the tiny student bedroom that you made your own and your daily supernoodle lunch and the mould that grew up the walls of the bathroom ... I know I sound like a nutter but its absolutely true.
Most of all you'll miss your friends, the best friends you make along the way. Living with people brings you amazingly close together - you can live with someone for three years and know them as well as friends back home you have known since you were three. You know all their habits and they know yours, you know how they take their tea, you know how they sound when they sing in the shower - you just know them inside out!
I was lucky enough to meet some great people and even if it doesn't happen right away you will eventually too, people who are just like minded and love all the things you do (well not all the things)
Just go for it guys and know that we are all very jealous of you! x
