So I’m living in a new house with different people from last
year. Massive relief, as most of you have already read my blog about one of the
people I lived with last year, who I just couldn’t get on with. Well this year I
am living with one of my very bestest friends. Now there are not many people I will
just go into their room and get in their bed or many people I would cook for
(this is partly because she tried to feed me raw chicken!) or there isn’t many
people that I would share chocolate with. True friendship right. One night we
were both in bed reading in bed and sharing a nougat bar another housemate comes
in and laughs at us because we are old ladies. But all that makes living in one
of the most horriblest houses in maybe the WORLD bearable.
I wanted to start this year off being really good and
reading most of the books before I came back, okay this is me, it never
happened. But if I am completely honest, I didn’t read many books last year,
perhaps four! Let me just tell you I had to read four books a fortnight… Yes I was
a bad student! But fresh start this year and I believe I have already read four
books and we are only just going onto doing some proper work!! The only trouble is how am I meant to keep up
with all this reading and have a life?
I saw a tweet the other day that said something along the
lines of ‘you can only have two of these things: a social life, good grades or
enough sleep.’ So yes like everyone I said I would rather not get enough sleep
but surely sleep is the key thing to being able to achieve good grades but to
also keep up a good social life, I have said many times “ohh I can’t be
bothered to go out tonight, I’d rather sleep.” These first two weeks we haven’t hit the clubs
hard, okay we had a crazy house party but we haven’t been out every night and
if I’m honest the nights we have been out haven’t been as good as last year.
Are we now getting too old for all these excitable Freshers?!
So just to quickly round up year two has a horrible (I forgot
to mention spider infested) house, a hell of a lot more reading and me growing
old before my time. Now normally things come in threes, well not this time, I am
yet to tell you all that my favourite lecturer has left!!!
Mark (the best lecturer ever!! You make think I’m being biased
but no word of a lie, the best) has left my uni and has left me with lecturers I
have never had before and ones that will defiantly not put up with me being a
little bit of a monkey in lecturers and also would not be bribed with chocolate
and sweets. I was in a seminar and no one was feeling working I had to think on
my feet to take one for the team “Mark what you up to this weekend?” every
single person went quiet and then laughed, but the whole class happily had a
chat about camping. This is something I will dearly miss about my second year;
none of my lecturers are going to want to chat when they can be talking about
some real interesting book.
Things change and yes we sometimes don’t want them to but without
change how are we meant to grow. There is still I lot that I need to learn to
do that I need to push my comfort zone to the side and think I just need to
grab anything I can. I believe you won’t get to where you want to be if all you
do is ‘be safe’.
