UNIVERSITY: THINGS NOT TO WORRY ABOUT

If there was a degree titled BA (Hons) Worry About Everything Possible, it would have been created for, tried, tested and completed with an Upper First Class Honours by me. Years and years of worrying about the little things had meant that deciding to go to uni for me was some scary shit indeed, and although I was so excited to start such a cool new chapter in my life, this excitement didn’t come without a double-decker bus-sized load of anxiety and apprehension. Having now made it out of my first year alive and comfortably being able to say that going forward into my second I feel only complete eagerness to go back (worries a thing of the past), I’m here to tell you that all the things your brain is saying are a scary big deal really aren’t. Even if you’re one of the lucky ones who might only get a little nervous from time to time but aren’t generally phased by big changes, I guarantee the thought of moving away from home to live with people you’ve never met and study at such a high level make you feel at least a little bit uneasy. Regardless of which end of the spectrum you find yourself on, I’d imagine you’ve been told countless times ‘everyone’s in the same boat’ and ‘you’re only nervous because it’s all new to you’. The truth is that the reason we’re told this over and over by our parents, teachers, friends, older siblings etc etc is because it’s true. Nothing you’re worried about will be as bad as you think. They say university years are the best years of your life and after only one of them I can vouch for that, as i’m sure the majority of students do. I can’t comprehend that if I’d have never made this huge jump I would never have met the amazing people i’m now lucky enough to know and I wouldn’t have spent nearly every day laughing and making hilarious and weird memories. I also would never have had nearly as much opportunity to come out after just 9 or 10 months a million times more confident and outgoing than I ever was throughout school. Although uni obviously isn’t for everyone, and sometimes it doesn’t always work out as planned; squash the worries, go into it all guns blazing and with an open mind, and I promise you’ll have a bloody amazing time.