We wake up, we do things so very individual to each of us; breakfast, shower, Drive to University… Basically to attend an amount of lectures and tutorials: 24 to be exact to a 3 year BA, writing no more then 30 or so essays and 15 or so slightly smaller but equally as boring reports. Also, factoring at least 12 presentations, the funny thing is that this doesn’t even include all the internal work.

This is the life you chose, this will make you into a productive member of society. This will make your parents proud and silence all of the detractors from your life, the ones with the comments that are better suited to themselves.

There is little to this scene though. For me, this is what I chose: I chose to sleep in and miss enough lectures and tutorials to make the lecturers think that perhaps I was a write-off to some degree and that I was here just because my parents wanted me to have a degree.

I didn’t try because I couldn’t be bothered my life consisted of drinking and fucking and fighting and thinking that I was slightly behind everyone else. Though not in terms of general intelligence just behind watching and thinking ‘what the fuck why am I here?’

See, you have to ask yourself this question; do you really want to be here at university studying Degree X to accumulate debt and a network of friends with debt and to perhaps feel empty in 10 years and consider working somewhere else in a different profession?

Wow, what a mouthful. The thing is, its true that you need to be honest to yourself and to be honest. There was little time for me to be that honest to myself and after most of a degree and the general realization that all my friends who I was studying with were graduating and I was still cleaning up the loose ends of my degree, I dropped out to pursue a Law degree.

I put myself out of one degree that I thought wasn’t going to serve me well to jump into the deep end of one of the most competitive tertiary subjects and placements, I keep looking at my study-link statements: I am up to $40000 and counting. Seeing as I have another 3 years at University, I think I could get close to $70000. But that’s the thing: I am absolutely 100% HAPPY with being the perennial student because you shouldn’t ever let anyone else tell you that you are living your life wrong. Because your life is all up to you and don’t you ever forget that fact because if you do its hard getting back to that point.

Other then this quite touching moment of sharing the fact that I am quite the useless student the rest of this column if the editor and chief still allows me to write one (I think she is angry at me at the moment) will be about far nicer subjects like crazy flatting stories and love and life at university and that one time I told Mathew Ridge that no-one likes him.

Peace-core

Ollie