Monday, 22 June 2009

Ups and downs.

This week's been a funny one. Graduation's coming up next month and although we've all had problems with uni, either disliking our lecturers or disliking our modules. One thing we can all agree on is that graduation is going to be amazing. There's a group of us who plan to all go out and get smashed on the night of graduation and possibly do yet another Jagerbomb challenge. So far the boys are beating me so much and I need to win one.
We've all by now paid for our seats. We've all measured ourselves for a cap and gown and paid for that. Those who need to book accomodation have done so and it's all becoming so exciting. Then I got some terrible news. I failed one of my modules so won't be graduating until September. As you can imagine I was devistated, my friends all get to graduate at the same time. They all get to throw their capsin the air and go crazy while posing for stupid amounts of photos. They also get to sneak out of the ceromony half way through and go to the pub as the plan is. I can't do that with them.
I rang my mam in floods of tears. I couldn't believe it. Uni's always been a bit of a nightmare to me, I couldn't really be bothered with it and didn't care what I got in essays so long as I passed. All I knew is that I wanted to graduate. Wanted to say bye to all my friends properly and have one last huge boozing session with everyone. It was the one bit of uni I couldn't wait for.
So this week I've been on the phone to countless numbers of people to tell them the news, they were all amazing and supported me and most of them said they'd come up in September for me graduating.
Then as they say, every cloud has a sliver lining. I got a phone call from my lecturer to discuss the refferal of my essay and asked if there was a graduation service for me later in the year. She mentioned that I can actually attend the graduation ceremony. I'll still be a graduating student so we can still have the big deal that comes with graduation. I was over the moon. Then good news seemed to follow for the rest of the day. Little things but it's one of those days where everything seems right.

Now all I need to do is enjoy it and ensure that I'm the girl who collects her diploma and gets a huge cheer from her fellow students. :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good blog, nicely done!