Oh to be young again
7:58 pm on the 21st of September, 2005This year I’ve been struck with thoughts about freshers, more so than the last two years. Maybe it’s because I live much closer to campus now, but, it has really astonished me that it was nearly three years ago that I was looking as lost as they do now. Three years!18 through to 21, some of the most formative years of my life, times that will have a bearing on me for ever and they’ve happened in a time that just went by without me realising.
Never again will I be in a similar situation (I hope), where there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain, a whole world just suddenly opening up infront of me, with next to no responsibility, the overwhelming feeling that everyone you meet could be a friend for life. Oh how things change! I’m much more cynical now that I am then, pretty much as a direct result of fresher’s week. That people can be so pleasant and friendly to everybody and then change so drastically over the course of a year and more. Not everybody’s like that though thankfully, I bumped into a girl I was in halls with last night and at least she’s as friendly as she always was.
It also stuck me tonight as well that I have been in the library more in the last three weeks that I did in my entire first two years.
September 22nd, 2005 at 10:19 am on the 22nd of September, 2005
That bit about the library is normal. In the first two years, I went there for three reasons: to photocopy; to borrow classic novels from the English Lit section; to borrow textbooks. Pretty much in that order. Only later on did it became a warm,quiet place to study with no distractions.
September 25th, 2005 at 8:40 pm on the 25th of September, 2005
I would say that was the biggest difference between the second and first times I went to university. The second time, I went to the library from the start. That’s called “learning from experience”. It’s also just called learning, but that’s another matter.
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