Here, I'm in Uni, by the way, in case you didn't already know
Okay, real quick catch-up: I quit my job and am now in Glasgow Uni studying Computing Science, Mathematics and Science Fundamentals (spud science for Uni, real easy).
I'm focusing on the Computing Science at the moment, but I'm keeping my options open by taking the slightly more in-depth Maths in case I change my mind in the next couple of years. It's not all easy, but it's a lot more enjoyable than my brief spat at Strathclyde Business School and I feel a lot more fulfilled than I did at my work (fun though it was).
I've developed a nice social circle at Uni and I also get to see a few people I already knew; such as Loli, Jay, Doug, Rosanne, Tosh and Kirsten. I've seen Freeman about my classes, too: a fellow about whom I knew nothing of but stories until now. It'll be an interesting irony if we end up good friends; a nice parallel of cast-offs.
I'm not entirely certain whether it's the course or the people that has/have made this whole experience thus far a lot more enjoyable than I had envisioned. When I first began the extremely last-minute scramble to enter Clearing on time, I figured this would be something for me to grit my teeth through and endure like last time (only this time, not quitting), but I'm genuinely having a good time. I actually don't want the summer holidays because all I'll be doing is working and not getting to see Uni mates.
No doubt I'll have some downs to go with the ups, but hey, that's life.
I see Loli pretty much every day of the week but Sunday now, because we get the same train up to Uni (it's actually an hour early for me, but I like to have time for some Computing lab work and a big old pre-lecture shite, plus it protects me against train or subway delays). She's probably sick of the sight of me!
I've become a bit of a spendthrift of late; that big nest egg I was building up while working is looking a whole lot more accessible now that I have a justifiable reason to dip into it. My last couple of wages, which I didn't save much of, are still doing me, though, and hopefully my student overdraft will last until I start working again in the summer.
Speaking of work, I was sad to say goodbye to most of them. I still keep in touch with Andy & Martin via the social magic of Bebo, but I ain't heard a peep from the rest since I popped back a while ago to drop off one of my SII (Securities & Investment Institute) exam books. I really wish I'd rushed myself more with those exams. I could've had ASI at the end of my name...
Recent activity has cut the final thread on an old friendship already in tatters. I'm not really bothered that much by this point. It's made me realise that I don't actually feel any seething hatred for anyone anymore. It's not as though I was ever much of a seether before, but in the past, whenever anything caused Fraser White to come to mind, I would be filled with this blinding, bitter, disgusting revulsion like nothing I'd normally feel. Now, though, I think I've unconsciously reconciled myself; might even be ready to forgive him to some degree. That's good, because I didn't really take too well to hatred. I can't help but laugh whenever I see him these days, at myself for viewing him as some kind of threat. Even if he still is the way he once was, people like that never win in the end anyway.
So, yeah, I think that's me done. Gonna finish my Computing Science report now. The one Tom showed me when he was in First Year still comes to mind every time I think about this report, that one was brilliant.
I'm focusing on the Computing Science at the moment, but I'm keeping my options open by taking the slightly more in-depth Maths in case I change my mind in the next couple of years. It's not all easy, but it's a lot more enjoyable than my brief spat at Strathclyde Business School and I feel a lot more fulfilled than I did at my work (fun though it was).
I've developed a nice social circle at Uni and I also get to see a few people I already knew; such as Loli, Jay, Doug, Rosanne, Tosh and Kirsten. I've seen Freeman about my classes, too: a fellow about whom I knew nothing of but stories until now. It'll be an interesting irony if we end up good friends; a nice parallel of cast-offs.
I'm not entirely certain whether it's the course or the people that has/have made this whole experience thus far a lot more enjoyable than I had envisioned. When I first began the extremely last-minute scramble to enter Clearing on time, I figured this would be something for me to grit my teeth through and endure like last time (only this time, not quitting), but I'm genuinely having a good time. I actually don't want the summer holidays because all I'll be doing is working and not getting to see Uni mates.
No doubt I'll have some downs to go with the ups, but hey, that's life.
I see Loli pretty much every day of the week but Sunday now, because we get the same train up to Uni (it's actually an hour early for me, but I like to have time for some Computing lab work and a big old pre-lecture shite, plus it protects me against train or subway delays). She's probably sick of the sight of me!
I've become a bit of a spendthrift of late; that big nest egg I was building up while working is looking a whole lot more accessible now that I have a justifiable reason to dip into it. My last couple of wages, which I didn't save much of, are still doing me, though, and hopefully my student overdraft will last until I start working again in the summer.
Speaking of work, I was sad to say goodbye to most of them. I still keep in touch with Andy & Martin via the social magic of Bebo, but I ain't heard a peep from the rest since I popped back a while ago to drop off one of my SII (Securities & Investment Institute) exam books. I really wish I'd rushed myself more with those exams. I could've had ASI at the end of my name...
Recent activity has cut the final thread on an old friendship already in tatters. I'm not really bothered that much by this point. It's made me realise that I don't actually feel any seething hatred for anyone anymore. It's not as though I was ever much of a seether before, but in the past, whenever anything caused Fraser White to come to mind, I would be filled with this blinding, bitter, disgusting revulsion like nothing I'd normally feel. Now, though, I think I've unconsciously reconciled myself; might even be ready to forgive him to some degree. That's good, because I didn't really take too well to hatred. I can't help but laugh whenever I see him these days, at myself for viewing him as some kind of threat. Even if he still is the way he once was, people like that never win in the end anyway.
So, yeah, I think that's me done. Gonna finish my Computing Science report now. The one Tom showed me when he was in First Year still comes to mind every time I think about this report, that one was brilliant.