Minus the donning of a very horrendous looking black cloak and hat and chucking it in the air and having the lovely photos with the parents, it is finally feeling that my years of being a student and being in education are finishing. Although my last post stated the ‘end of education’, I didn’t really recognise what stage of my life I was in. And it’s the adult stage. My sister text me the other day saying “Welcome to real world” and I think, although rather blunt!!, she’s right as student living is a bubble of drunkenness, happiness and food (for those unaware EVERYONE puts on weight when they go to uni and develop the ‘fresher’s stone’. My mum says I haven’t and puts it down to ‘maturing and becoming a woman’. I think it’s purely a dirty addiction to McDonalds.)
The world of student discount, tax exemption, overdrafts and dirty smelly houses are unceremoniously finishing. I feel I’ve learnt a lot about myself. I’ve grown up and become much more independent and confident in myself, but I still feel far too young. I still get ID-ed, very often in fact, and I know I look quite young but I felt that the moment I got my results I’d be elated (I wasn’t) and be able to walk into a full time job (I haven’t) and be fully respected as an adult (I’m not.) I suppose what I’m attempting to say is that graduating hasn’t been what I thought it would be. I imagined drunken night (there were some) after night and floating away on cloud nine ready to embrace life! But it’s been some what of a reality check.
Yesterday evening I met with a course tutor Jo. I’d spoken to her over facebook about how to get a blog (this blog in fact) ‘out there’. We ended up chatting about everything for almost two hours and it was very refreshing. Jo seemed please with my enthusiasm and keenness to push myself forward and was impressed with my ideas (at least she seemed to be!) I’ll post more of my ideas when they are more concrete in a few days after a summer school for creative ideas I’m currently enrolled in.
So I am positive now. I’ve got my upset times of grade out of my way and actually the finishing of my degree has been very exciting. It’s daunting and very engulfing but I’d highly recommend the experience to anyone. But now in the real world it’s all about work experience and getting my name out to the right people, off my own back – no one should expect to be carried along. I’ve realised grades are only a small section of my degree – it’s my friends, experiences and knowledge that are the most important.
Oh and in answer to the blog questions it all got answered for me here: http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/article/550479
This is only my fourth post. So I’m trying to work hard at getting a solid blog before I spend the time looking at others and hopefully getting noticed through mine.
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