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Mid-student-life crisis :(
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Is anybody else feeling this or am I alone?
Now in the summer after the first year, missing everbody, living alone until september and working long hours to gradually make up the debt incurred by my fun first year. Can't even think about going out or anything, and when I do its serious budget - earlier this week I went out for a night on £3! (free buses with my bus pass and three £1 bottles of Becks)
Now reading Freshers' Week guides and getting down thinking about how excited I felt this time last year, and wanting to live the first year all over again. I'm missing the chaos of halls life and the attitude that no matter how craply I do in uni work it doesn't count... from now on it does. Haven't been in contact with many friends for ages and very few are actually living here until term starts. And I won't be able to do my 6-nights-a-week marathons anymore, for money and practical matters.
Is it normal to find the summer after first year so crap???
(sorry for the rant, just need to get a few things out of my system! been working for 12 hours today...)
Now in the summer after the first year, missing everbody, living alone until september and working long hours to gradually make up the debt incurred by my fun first year. Can't even think about going out or anything, and when I do its serious budget - earlier this week I went out for a night on £3! (free buses with my bus pass and three £1 bottles of Becks)
Now reading Freshers' Week guides and getting down thinking about how excited I felt this time last year, and wanting to live the first year all over again. I'm missing the chaos of halls life and the attitude that no matter how craply I do in uni work it doesn't count... from now on it does. Haven't been in contact with many friends for ages and very few are actually living here until term starts. And I won't be able to do my 6-nights-a-week marathons anymore, for money and practical matters.
Is it normal to find the summer after first year so crap???
(sorry for the rant, just need to get a few things out of my system! been working for 12 hours today...)
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However, I think you're catching a glimpse of the real working world to come, heh. Probably not as bad as all that (since you won't always have to pay back a year's worth of pretty much solid drinking!) but I don't think the first year of Uni is a lifestyle you get to live more than once. Unless you just repeat your first year continuously and take out more and more loans...always a thought
I'm at work, which is really good. Hardly any of my friends work though, so they mostly do stuff during the daytime. I don't care though. I'm the one who's not gonna be in debt at the end of the summer.
Mine was, but that was probably because i had my parents nagging at me 24-7 about all my problems. Blah.
2nd and 3rd years are more enjoyable because it isn't just messing around getting pissed.