this post may be pretty overdue - my summer started on 11th june this year due to finishing my A2 exams early (or not early, considering the amount of stress i went through!)
hopefully, in about 2 and a bit months i'll be starting at University of Sheffield for my BA Journalism degree. exciting, right?
the only thing i'm worried about is not being prepared enough; there's so much i want to do in my life, some of which i can quite easily do after my degree (assuming i get in.. arghhh) and others that i want to start now (because i'm impatient and essentially have a long time this summer)
- lose weight. this alone is long overdue - i remember back after i finished gcses this was my plan then..oops. two years on and i'm near enough the same weight. slightly more toned but nonetheless the same weight. i am so determined to change this, if nothing else, before i start! i keep trying to motivate myself with things like 'you can buy -insert desired object here- when you've dropped -insert appropriate number- here' but it never lasts - said item enters the sale, i lose the will to live and consequently stay the same, just slightly poorer and with a new top, for example.
- start learning shorthand. one requirement for a professional journalist is to be able to short hand at 100 wpm which at the moment is looking impossible. i'm a fast (if semi illegible ) writer but the prospect of learning it in near enough a new language is kind of scary. i have three years to perfect my shorthand skills but there's nothing like starting early!
- i also want to maximise this summer, as i've realised this is the only summer in my life (possibly) where i have 4 months without anything to do. previously there's always been the idea of starting next year's work early, but i don't know for sure where i'm going to be, as of september, which is scary but also a positive, in that i can spend the time doing as i please.
- read more! i used to spend my life reading, before banning myself for the sake of revision (and longterm; my future). my aim now is to read a lot more books, more classics and widen my knowledge generally.
- go on holidays, go to festivals, go to parties, travel a lot. i feel like this is a few points merged into one. i'm already going to egypt and fuerteventura, so expect travel journalism fresh from the other sides of the world in a month or so's time! i'm hopefully going to both sundown and shakedown festival which should be amazing. i think if i have any spare days (and let's be realistic, i probably will) then i'm going to spontaneously hop on trains and take myself around the uk with the help of my student railcard.
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