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A Student's Fear

Posted by MissD from Cardiff - Published on 26/10/2011 at 16:14
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Are degrees really worth it?

That’s the argument that I have been battling through my brain for the past five hours while I’ve unsuccessfully been staring at a very blank computer trying to make some sense out of my Public Relations essay. Understandably, I slammed down my laptop and proceeded to eat two jam doughnuts out of frustration with my inability to work.

You see, over the past week or so I’ve been trying to decide what to do with my life (as one of my best friends would say, “Sort out your life” in an up most useful, if slightly aggressive fashion). I guess that after taking a gap year in 2009, then starting university the following year only to change institution and having to do my first year again this year, that I must have expected myself to at least have some sort of plan, no matter how rusty. Maybe an idea about what career path I want to take, perhaps, or where I see myself five years after graduating.

This has all stemmed from the terrifying prospect of my nearest and dearest buddies finishing university this year (and even next year) while I have seemed to push myself two years behind the finishing line. Maybe the reason why I have been so ambivalent on where I want to be and what I want to do has programmed my brain to scream, hid behind the sofa and inevitable shut down, like a school kid watching a horror movie for the first time. Seeing my friends planning the next chapter of their lives has made me hide and cower from making those decisions myself.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not scared as such, just maybe a little apprehensive. I find the whole idea of change riveting and exciting but these are big girl decisions… and I have three years of university to get through first.

I have a passion for Theatre, Music and Fashion. I study Screen Studies with modules that cover Media Studies, Film Studies and Public Relations and enjoy every single one of them. I’ve been doing a lot research with what I can do with my degree and see myself leaning towards the idea of Fashion PR… but I hear that most companies like you to have experience within a different field, so maybe Journalism would be a good flare there? Who knows?

I have come to the decision to take every day as it goes, as I said, I have three years of essays, presentations and exams to battle through yet so something may simply fall into place. To all my friends graduating this year, bloody good luck! I’ll think of you when I’m still suffering from those banging hangovers, flashbacks of crazy dancing and the stench of kebabs from the night before, a thought we all know well. I truly do love you.

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