As I\u2019m writing this it\u2019s the Easter break and I\u2019m back down in London catching up with family and friends. Yesterday I had a school reunion day, everyone from my school year went back to school to visit our teachers, collect our A-Level certificates, and to catch up with each other; finding out where people \u2018ended up\u2019, who\u2019s still in contact with who and how everyone\u2019s finding life beyond the school walls. As well as seeing my school year, I also saw the year below and was able to catch up with them and have a few d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moments as they told me what they were going through in this busy time as year 13 students. And it gave me the idea to maybe write my blog today on the main things the year 13s asked me and my friends while we were there and our advice\/answers to their never-ending questions.<\/p>\n
The main question, other than \u2018how are you?\u2019, that everyone asked was \u2018what are you doing now?\u2019. And you may be thinking well you know what I\u2019m doing as I am writing this blog as a Loughborough University student. However, this question really stuck in my mind throughout the day\u2026 As EVERYONE was asking it, and near enough EVERYONE had different answers. Between my friendship group, we have all ended up doing so many different things from a barrister\u2019s clerk internship, to being an au pair in Paris, all the way to going to university all over the country. So, as my friends and I were sitting in the same spot we would every day last year during our lunchtime and free periods, it made me think, none of us knew for certain how drastically our lives would change in a year\u2019s time, and what our answer to that question would be on this reunion day. That\u2019s why the question stuck. And that\u2019s why I decided to write this blog to you year 13s today to make you think, what would you like your answer to be to that question in a year\u2019s time from now. Among all the stress and apprehension, you may be feeling right now, take some time to think about what you really want to get out from sixth form because I can tell you that having a rough idea of that answer will help give you some motivation to excel in your exams\/coursework. Also, it\u2019s a good thing to realise and understand that everyone will most probably end up doing very different things, things that are suited to their personalities and interests, things which may be very different to what you had in mind, and that is absolutely\u00a0and positively normal and fine! Don\u2019t stress about what everyone else is planning on doing, it’s your time to be selfish here and focus on your very own answer to that question and then get excited to find out everyone else\u2019s answers in a year\u2019s time!<\/p>\n
Another question that was frequently asked to those who ended up at university was \u2018how are you finding university?\u2019. Now, obviously, I could only answer that question regarding Loughborough (something you will see my answer through my various blogs). But again, one thing I noticed surrounding this question was that everyone\u2019s answers were very different. Don\u2019t get me wrong, most people were saying about how much they enjoy their university, and how different it is to sixth form, but some told stories of how they dropped out within a month as it wasn\u2019t for them, how they originally didn\u2019t like it but grew to love it, or how they transferred from their original course to a different one. There were also answers which pretty much stated \u2018it\u2019s alright, nothing amazing\u2019, literally, which is far from the stereotype surrounding university of it being \u2018the best years of your life\u2019. So, from this, I think you can see that everyone\u2019s experiences and opinions of their university vary dramatically, and I think this is very much down to everyone\u2019s very different personalities and preferences. And the advice I would take from this is that you shouldn\u2019t have any expectations for university, go in to it open-minded, because you may be the person who comes back and can say they love everything about their university, but you may also be the person who says they hated university and have chosen something else to do instead; all of which are perfectly okay answers and are not anything to be ashamed of, as it’s down to personal experience.<\/p>\n
There were so many more questions that I was asked when I went back for the reunion day, but right now I need to get back to doing some coursework (Easter break doesn\u2019t quite mean no uni work, unfortunately). So, I\u2019ll continue the saga of reunion day questions in my next blog!<\/p>\n
Oh and one last thing, happy Easter!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I\u2019m writing this it\u2019s the Easter break and I\u2019m back down in London catching up with family and friends. Yesterday I had a school reunion day, everyone from my school year went back to school to visit our teachers, collect our A-Level certificates, and to catch up with each other; finding out where people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":3132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-exercise-health-science"],"yoast_head":"\n