i just finished university! yay!!
*dances*
hope i passed.
*fingers x'd*
still happy to be finished though. my course was all coursework and no exams so we all had to finish well before most others... a curse when we were panicking trying to get stuff done on time... a blessing now i'm free and noticing all the people who are stuck worrying over exams. this is because of the way that they arrange things here; so that all the coursework is out of the way before exams start (i gather that most courses have some kind of a mixture of both).
oh and, to anybody that might have any cliche views on students: i did not get drunk hardly ever, i did not go out partying all the time, i did not whine about being poor, i don't think i'm better than everyone else, and in hindsight, i would not do it all again, for financial reasons if nothing else. i don't even think my degree is going to help me in employment as much as 4 years in real work might've, but oh well, i've done it now. £10grand of debt isn't pretty either (and that's without any credit card or other suchlike arrangement!), no matter how spread-out the repayments might be. just my luck to be landed with a tony blair government huh? lol.
still, i guess at least it's one thing the older generation can't do their intensely annoying "we had it so much worse than you did" routine on. they got paid for it, the lucky beehives!
lol
ah well ne mind though. it's not like it didn't have its fun points, and i did learn some neato stuff also. my degree might not help much but it will help some i guess. might be able to land me a typist job or something. well most of my colleagues wanted to go off and be website designers... bleh, not my cup of tea at all thankyou very much missus cheeky chops! one wanted to get into porn :-[ yuch no thanks. nah if i can't sell my songs (given the state of the music business, what do i mean, "if"? "if" i win the lottery?), and if nobody's bothered about publishing my poems or making my film ideas (which could happen but i won't be stupid enough to quite literally bank on it), then i'm a-do some normal job and just have a life for once.
too much time in the qualifications system makes lana an unhappy desperately bored little drudge skeleton. to hell with school... time for my life now.
anyway, listen to me blabbering on, just thought i'd let you's guys know the good news, plus a kinda warning to the "automatic go to university" kinda vibe. if you're doing it for the financial prospects then think and re-think very, very,
very hard about it. like i say, at the time i wasn't thinking and just went along with the "done thing", but given the choice over, i wouldn't go. it's sad, but hey, i figure, gotta at least tell people, so they think long and hard when they get to that crossroads.
i just think, if i'd've spent 4 years working on promoting my music, just imagine where i might be now. of course i would've had to've become business-minded, but even the state the music industry is in now, i reckon i could've made an okay living and gotten a good image, and had lots of fun, doing my songs in a band & suchlike. where am i now, though? huge debts and nowhere. and it's not like i want some huge billionaire corporate-ladder-climbing career either. just want to be happy and comfortable is all. just... do, definately, think before you go. i feel i aught to warn people. there are ways to learn things and this way is very expensive and time-consuming. that's all the more i'll say on it for now.
but *yay* that i'm finished!!
