Student Ramblings

1. There's too much hype around freshers week - I came to uni with all these great expectations of alcohol filled nights with my new flat mates, dancing the night away and staggering home at 5am hand in hand with my new friends. My freshers week sort of was and sort of wasn't that. There will be a lot of alcohol but you will probably pass your limit and end up coming back to halls at 3am in a taxi. You will dance with your new friends but you'll still be a little bit cautious around them as you try and work out the new people in your life. 2. You don't have to LOVE freshers - I didn't. I spent a lot of time in freshers week crying, or nearly crying, or on the phone crying. One of the things that made me cry was the fact that I wasn't loving freshers life and felt like I was doing it wrong, or that uni wasn't for me, or that I didn't belong here purely because there's this big thing about freshers being such an amazing week. You will get sad and fri...

Ok, so it's not quite officially the end of my gap year yet, but I move to Birmingham on Friday morning and have nothing sorted yet, so tomorrow will definitely spent last minute packing. This time last year I had just acquired a job in my village shop, I had some vague idea of what I was going to do at Uni, but still wasn't sure exactly or where. Everything seemed pretty awful this time last year, I was already regretting not just taking any place in clearing, I wasn't prepared for a gap year, I had no money, all of my friends were off starting their University adventures, partying the weeks away and making new friends and seeing new places, while I was stacking shelves and serving the locals their papers. One year later, and I'm SO glad I took my gap year, despite being completely unplanned it turned into one of the best years to date. I FINALLY decided on a course, applied, got the place and I'm happy with what I'm going to be doing for three years. I did a...

Dear online music diary, This isn't one of my normal music review posts, or a post about the gigs I've been to, or a post about a cool new band you should check out. Instead it's one of my "other music related type things" posts. Today I've read 2 posts and a Facebook status from 3 different people, discussing the difficulties of their chosen careers, or jobs they've been forced into, and how they feel about it, which made me think hey I'm going to write my own post on this, so here goes. I've always loved music. When I was 11 I was determined to play for the BBC concert orchestra when I was older. When I grew older I realised I was good at flute but not THAT good, but it was okay because I realised that I loved going to gigs, and talking to bands and watching them smash venues, so I decided I'd do that instead. Of course, going to a private all girls school where everything was purely academic a career in something that involved GETTING ST...