Making Procrastination an Art Form
Can you believe it? The end of uni is nigh! All I have to do is finish this one crappy essay, do three crappy exams in the next two weeks and that's it. Over. For good. Wowza. I'll be out there, in the big wide world, not really sure of what I'm doing, going with the flow, without time restrictions. Awesome. And after the past few months I've just had, I've never been so glad to see the back of it. It raises so many questions about uni, like why they give you bugger all work in the first two years and then drop you right in the shit in the final year. And why they decide to give you a dissertation to hand in, and two other essays to hand in the very same week. And the most important question of all... was it all really worth it?There are a lot of great things about uni - freedom, development of personal skills, getting pissed every night in your first year and watching yourself grow out of it by final year - but there are a lot of bad things too. Of course there's the usual "I now owe the loans company a fat wad of cash" problem, but I personally feel like I've been done over somewhat by uni, not only by their poor scheduling of essays and exams but just in the courses themselves. I'm not sure I've learnt that much in this final year, and in two of the essays I did this past month I had to actually teach myself most of the subject matter. Mainly thugh, what annoys me most about university essays and stuff is the lack of freedom of speech involved. Every essay I've ever written for uni has just been regurgitating other people's work, never have I had to use my own ideas or talk about my own opinions. It's just a concept that confuses me somewhat and leaves me feeling a little cold and robotic.
Another thing I've said goodbye to recently is my relationship with Dave, after almost three years. For many reasons, it just felt like the right thing to do, and I'll leave it at that for now. Point is I'm single (but not looking!) and trying to make myself happy with it at the moment, or at least I will once these essays are over with...
This summer looks set to be good fun, we've got Download coming up in June, and this year we've got a huge thriving community going on so it should be awesome, plus many many bands I'm dying to go and see are there too. Let's just hope there's slightly less heat and maybe more breeze this time round!
Also planned for this summer: Trip to Paris with Liam (shopping!), BBQs at various people's houses, holiday in Devon, my birthday, various other trips around the country if possible, moving back to my parents, job hunting and redecorating my brothers room! But mostly I'm going to be relaxing and enjoying my freetime.
I can already see where this summer is going to end up though - I'll end up working full time at Asda and not have much time to do anything else!
Oh yeah, on a side note, I didn't get in to Keele. I don't think the interviewer liked me, she asked me awkward dodgy questions, and generally I think she was fed up and decided to take on the first two people she interviewed. So I wont be heading off to Stoke anytime soon (if ever from how I feel about it now!)
So I'll leave it at that now, and carry on with my stupid damned piece of shit coursework, and dream about tonight when I can go get a yummy pizza.... Mmm Dominos....
posted by Kim @ 5/03/2007 01:57:00 am
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