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So, first of all, hey Gaians, welcome to WILTW.
I'm a biomedical science student in Scotland and am in my first year, so far a lot of stuff has happened and for a few people, it's been too much and they have left University to go home until they feel ready. I wanted to do this journal to help prospective university students who are concerned with how they'll cope with life away from home (if they live far from the university)
I'm going to start with a background to my first semester
So, I now live with my boyfriend which sounds alright for an 18 year old in the UK, but the reasons make it sound kinda weird. I was in halls of residence until December and didn't leave because my rent time ran out (I still have stuff there as my dad paid for the whole year) I left because of bullying, b****ing and noise (as well as the fact that I love my boyfriend very much smile )
You see, a lot of people think that they'll go to university and automatically be more mature, less likely to get into a clique. This isn't true, at first in Halls, you realise that (if you're in your own country) you are outnumbered by international students, therefore you try and make friends in a group which has at least 3 or 4 students from your country or course. I joined a group of all British (except one) students, half of them were on my course, and at first we all got on well. We had a few drunken parties, had a big laugh, then everything went bad. It happened because some of the girls started grouping together and trying to keep away from the others during lecture breaks. It wasn't because they needed to study, it was because they felt one of the girls was too random and weird to hang about with. Understandably, I find her quite annoying, but she's not that annoying.
After this, one of the girls tried commiting suicide (her boyfriend broke up with her due to a drunken mishap, a month before they had been discussing marriage) she was alright afterwards but regretted what she had done. She and her boyfriend made up not too long ago, she left University after our semester exams and is now engaged to him.
The clique was becoming more popular outside of halls and the girls involved were backstabbing us more and more. Then they took it too far one night at a flat party. I had a hat which I had bought and added stuff to, I was proud of it because people would have a laugh with me at gigs and we'd take turns wearing it. I accidentally left it in the flat when I left, along with my digital camera. When I got my camera back the next day my hat had disappeared. I decided to look for it later, I did my laundry and then decided to look at my pictures from the night. I deleted a few then came to one of my hat filled with chocolate sauce, tinned spaghetti and beans, ketchup etc. I hadn't taken it as I had left sober. I was angry as all hell. I texted one of the girls and she said it must have been when they were incredibly drunk as she couldn't remember it.
I went down to the flat that night for another party and decided to look in the gossip book (a book we kept to remind us what had happened at each party) where in near perfect handwriting was a list of everything that was put in the hat and a line underneath saying "Hilary got a text from her, She was not happy LOL biggrin "
So yeah, then I met my boyfriend at a party, we got together and I moved in as quick as possible. I'm glad I got out when I did because otherwise I would have been getting questioned by my old room mate to why I didn't go out with that group anymore.
I love where I'm living now, it's cosier, warmer, less crowded, less like borstal and I love the fact I'm living with somebody I've fallen head over heels for.
Workwise the course I'm doing is like a hilly cycling range, the work starts off slow and easy, a lot of it stuff you learn at school in your final years, they're relaxed about when you get to class so long as you sign in. Then it starts getting more difficult and the work piles up faster and faster. The idea with first year is so long as you pass you're safe. I failed one of my modules last semester and will re-take it in August, which I am not too bothered about.
Anyway, this is only the beginning, and I hope that this journal series will help you if you are worried about starting university, or if you are in university and are going through what I went through.
Stay tuned Sunday for another WILTW!
 bammzie · Fri Feb 11, 2011 @ 01:47pm · 0 Comments |
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