The Fresh Prince (of Academia) p2
January is the month in which students get their first taste of the obnoxious industry that is Student Housing. Landlords are rightly up there with rapists, the student loans call centre staff and the BNP on the list of stuff students really hate. They begin by stringing you around various smack dens for several hours before then astonishing you with an average house with an above average price tag in the hope that most students will jump at the opportunity in a bid to avoid the said junkie hovels. Once decided a raft of mystery charges and incompetence then materializes such as ‘signing fees’ and a fee for doing you the great service of holding onto their keys for you if you don’t happen to be available on the 1st July. Sigh.
My main concern during the second term involved the tricky process of dealing with the people in halls who you’ve always said ‘Hi’ to but never spoken to. When does this end? What if I bump into them during my thirties? When do you bite the bullet and ignore them? And then there’s coping with the pride hit if someone ignores you when you go to briefly acknowledge them. Despite the minor social shitstorm kicking around, second term continued pleasantly with enough nights out to kill the average fun dodging 40 year old and an increased level of commitment to studies that meant I didn’t feel quite so bad when lying about how much work I’ve been doing to my parents, who happen to be funding this whole uni malarkey.
Soon enough however better weather appeared and with it Easter. I enjoyed a massively crap Easter, crippled by the current employment crisis, I was forced to spend 4 weeks at home twiddling my thumbs and remembering every single reason why I went I to university in the first place. Note to self: do not drop out.
The following summer term was easily the most fun and most stressful. The prick tease summer that graced us in May and promptly did one soon after was glorious and made the fact that formal teaching ended three weeks after Easter all the better. With the sun, the party atmosphere surrounding halls hit new highs and a whole host of end of year bashes, do’s and formals made for a hazy few weeks. However like every good party the comedown hits hard and the revision period was fraught with wasted days, astonishing procrastination and looking enviously out of the window as scum bags in the sun that’d finished exams early.
Fortunately before too long I remembered I’m only a dirty fresher and 40% really will do. I then spent several weeks smashing in the nights out as a first year whilst I could, wringing the last of my overdraft and still managing to feel fairly confident about my exams. Result.
After the hugely sad realisation that my first year was over hit home and I would have to leave my beloved halls behind, the reflection began and whilst sounding like a sentimental prat, my first year at uni has been fantastic, friends for life… blah blah blah etc.
As the massive and hugely un-ironic lad Asher Roth recently rapped,
‘Man I love college/uni/higher education centre
Do I really have to graduate?
Or can I just stay here forever?’
Amen Asher, Amen.
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