Reflections on an academic year

Categories: general, swansea

Tags: Friends, Uni

Date: 28 June 2007 21:58:43

I know my academic year hasn't finished yet - that doesn't happen for another 5 weeks when this placement is over, but I've had to buy a new academic diary because the old one will run out soonish. I bought an 18 month one so I can transfer over to normal years. Because in 5 weeks time I will have finished uni for ever. In about 10 weeks I should be a registered nurse. How scary is that?!

Anyway, I was transferring dates and birthdays from my old diary to my new diary, and reading everything that has happened in the past year as I went along. It was quite interesting actually. There were things like lists of things to talk to friends about when I rang them up, including initials for certain things/people. Knowing the context I knew what I had meant, and it just made me smile. There were other times when I looked at the page for a week and realise just how much stuff I'd (tried) to fit into a single week. How many different things I was trying to deal with at that time. Juggling, I think is the technical term.

But seriously, looking back I don't know how I got through some parts of the past year. The other day I had a random deep and meaningful with a coursemate who is staying in the same B&B as me for placement. When I told her about some of the stuff I've dealt with in the past few months, she was astonished and asked how the hell did I cope with everything on top of third year academic work and placement. I said I didn't really know how I'd coped. Then after some thought I said 'my friends, and Him upstairs'. So a big thank you. You know who you are.

I've made it through uni, well just about. What next? Find a job. Hmm, if only it were as easy as it was to type those three words. I don't really have a clue where I'll end up working. Where theres a job. Where theres good promotion possibilities. Where there are friends. I doubt if I'll find somewhere that has all three though! I need to think about where I really ought to be applying for, but basically I think I am going to have to go where ever I can get a job. But I will be back to visit Swansea. And once I've got some experience under my belt, I'll have more job possibilities and could probably move back. I dunno at the moment, its all uncertain.