Musings of a Uni first year

so i've been on some forums for people about to go to uni (thestudentroom.co.uk and yougofurther.co.uk) and found a multitude of people who will be on my course next year, and one who was on the course last year so is offering me advice, such as to take the medium maths choice, as the teacher is amazingly helpfull and offers lots of one-to-one, which apparantly isn't dirty

and then there's Rob, who's the first person i found, and is my new found course-best-friend i'm helping him move in on the 22nd September (so not for a while yet, lol)

I'm realy excited about the course now, there's far too long to wait till it starts.

i'm getting sooo much paper work through, stuff from UEA that i need to fill in and send in complete with about 10000 passport photos, stuff from the bank i'm trying to set up a student account with that needs sending back and warns me they need passport photos, i swear half my wages are going on passport photos next month!

I need more work, Roy's aren't giving me enough hours, well, ok, they're giving me loads, but it doesn't feel like enough. and i'm hoping the holiday i booked for next week will be payed holiday, i assume it is, but you never know.

found a reeealy nice dress i'm gonna get, prob won't be seen as suitable by a lot of people, but that won't stop me, lol

ok, so i figured as this whole uni thing is gonna be so new i need to milestone it in some way, i've set up this, it's gonna have all of my mussing from now till the end of the year on everything Uni and probably everything else in my life too.

So i, along with several million other people went to pick up my A level results on August 16th. There were tears and all that jazz when I opened my results to find just how badly I;d done, i'd not made the conditions of either of my Uni choices, UEA requiring BBC and Nottingham requiring BCC, I had got DDE, just a little bit different, and waaqaay bellow my predicted grades. But i deserved the grades, i'd coasted most of the year, and only put in effort at the last minute.

It was with no small amount of shock therefore when i logged onto good old UCAS to find not one, but two offers, UEA, my first choice had offered me science with a foundation year instead of my original choice of Biology, and Nottingham my insurance choice had offered me the Environmental Biology course i had applied for with my awful grades.

so lots more tears and several glasses of ammaretto later (hardly hardcore i know) i phoned ucas and asked them to accept the changed offer from UEA, and was full of excitement, i was gong to uni after all.