And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you
I went to Croatia. Everyone was amaaaaazing and I laughed till my ribs hurt. I drank beer, went to the zoo and met a nice Belgian boy. The downside of this is that he lives in Belgium haha :< But he's coming back in just over a week, so that'll be nice.. The Croatians, Matt and Ivor, were lovely, lovely people and epic tour guides and we got to see and do sooo much around Zagreb. All of their friends are lovely too. I'm very definately gonna go again when I can afford it, and I'm trying to bully them into coming to Scotland :) Win.
I failed uni. Not going to exams will do that for you. But my advisor is a legend, and it turns out not attending the exams has left me in a good position because I can withdraw temporarily with an effective date of just before exams so I technically didn't fail them and I won't go up infront of the progress committee, so I can opt back into the course next year or the year after (probably the year after because of the financial implications of having to pay my own fees next year) no problem. The only thing now is am I gonna be able to afford to live in Glasgow or am I going to move home for a year. I say 'home'... I've only ever lived in the house my parents stay in now for one summer. It was a looooong summer. I know no one who lives around there. It would kinda suck. I could really do with saving some serious cash though. Going up to see my folks and talk it all over tonight. It's amazing how supportive they are about it all; I thought my mum would be pissed I wasted so much time and money but she's just full of suggestions about new and exciting things I could do with my life and paints it all in the light of a new opportunity. I feel so lucky to have the parents I have.
Besides, even if I end up not going back to uni, I don't really think I can call it wasted time. Glasgow has been so, so good to me and I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. Even if it didn't work out like I expected, I'm rich from the journey. I just have to remember what these Ithakas mean :)
I failed uni. Not going to exams will do that for you. But my advisor is a legend, and it turns out not attending the exams has left me in a good position because I can withdraw temporarily with an effective date of just before exams so I technically didn't fail them and I won't go up infront of the progress committee, so I can opt back into the course next year or the year after (probably the year after because of the financial implications of having to pay my own fees next year) no problem. The only thing now is am I gonna be able to afford to live in Glasgow or am I going to move home for a year. I say 'home'... I've only ever lived in the house my parents stay in now for one summer. It was a looooong summer. I know no one who lives around there. It would kinda suck. I could really do with saving some serious cash though. Going up to see my folks and talk it all over tonight. It's amazing how supportive they are about it all; I thought my mum would be pissed I wasted so much time and money but she's just full of suggestions about new and exciting things I could do with my life and paints it all in the light of a new opportunity. I feel so lucky to have the parents I have.
Besides, even if I end up not going back to uni, I don't really think I can call it wasted time. Glasgow has been so, so good to me and I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. Even if it didn't work out like I expected, I'm rich from the journey. I just have to remember what these Ithakas mean :)