So I’m in uni now. Big deal. I was actually getting quite
comfy with my current lifestyle: doing Graphic Design tuts and going to design school.
Not forgetting the random fiction book thrown in. WHAT. A. LIFE. It was
awesome, my dear coconut scrapings. But now, the tides have turned, and the sea
flows away from our lush lands. In other words, I gotta go to uni. For like 4/5
days. Morning to evening. I feel so smothered. Btw I don’t get what’s with that
word. ‘Smothered’ I mean. I can’t breathe when I say the word. But this kind of
‘smothered’ I feel for uni isn’t in my lungs; it’s in my head. Idk, do I feel
claustrophobic?? It’s like my mind has fogged over all the days in the year I’m
gonna be at school. My brain is good at that by the way, giving some kind of
visual-feeling kind of thing. If I think of the month February, I get this
visual of being high up. And when I think of September it’s towards the bottom.
It’s an approximation kinda visual miasma thing. It works for literally
anything, be it percentages or numbers or whatever.
Ahem.
Advice for myself:
Keep sight of what’s important.
First things first, uni is about learning, studying and
getting ya degree, fam. Hunting orcs comes second. And so does everything else.
Personally, I have no intentions of having the time of my life or being a wild
ting.
I get that I’m gonna be spending A LOT of time in uni so I
should get used to it. When I was in high school some 100 summers ago (jk) I
would come home ready to drop, bruv. I want to conserve energy so I can get
things done when I get back home. Actually while typing this I feel like
crashing-skidding onto my crisp cold bed. I’m so tired. Blame it on the messed
up time table. I need to be just as energetic and hyped as a renewed fairy
(trying at an Artemis Fowl reference #fail)
Work hard.
SO our uni has this board where they show off who got the
highest GPA or whatever. I kinda want to get on there? Also, I don’t get it- no
notes?! I had to ask the dean guy about how exactly I was supposed to pass the
exams if I had nothing on good old paper to read (cram) about the night before
the exam?? I also asked said guy about my clashing time tables: I still haven’t
finished my Certificate in Multimedia from another place. He stressed that
attendance was key in the uni. You had to have 80% attendance. Then he
proceeded TO FREAK ME OUT THAT I COULD ONLY MISS 4 DAYS IN ONE SEMESTER???
Yeah, well he corrected himself and said I could only miss 15 days tops in 3
months. Good times.
Keep up with hobbies or you’ll fall hard.
If it’s one thing I know, it’s that any rapid changes in
everyday musings or umm, hobbies? -activities? can make you lose your bearings and
lean too hard on one side which happens to be the dark side. I created a whole
new Instagram account in my senior year and started posting fruit bowls and
stuff. All this was because I swore of ALL social media at the beginning of the
year. I deprived myself so much that my brain was screaming, I guess? I should
have may be weaned myself out of social media? Or maybe just stayed on there
and restricted myself. I applied this principle when I restarted my workout
routine some days back. I was dying to eat these delicious (positively divine)
potato chips, and I had 2 options. A) Abstain from it bc umm, calories-hello?
And B) Eat it cuz it’s barely the first day of workout?!
So I went ahead and ate the chips. Let’s take a look at what
would have happened if I undertook scenario A:
- I would feel momentary pride at my restraining powers.
- I would get fidgety with the denial of such tasty food to my palate.
- Rage in Spanish
- Eat a whole fridge, doors and all.
What I mean to say is, if you’re dragon rider, keep riding
them dragons. Don’t jump off the back of said creature just because you’ve
joined the Queen’s guard and have to find pale orcs and AVENGE THORIN
OAKENSHIELD OMG. I will never get over their deaths. Hold me.
Read the fiction or keep baking the scones-just don’t stop
because you joined uni.
Make the right friends
If there’s one thing I’m wary of, it’s friends. After having
toxic friends for two years, I know all the do’s and don’ts. I don’t get people
who need others as a clutch (more like claws digging into your back) just to
boost their self worth or summin’. After two years of being treated like an
underdog (I know, ashaming. But exclusive jazz just for my fans) I think I’m
ready to be AN ALPHA. I’m not gonna make friends. Especially with people who
have some kind of superiority complex. Or as my sister says, ‘superiority
cornflakes’ lmao. I’ll run 1233093930 miles if I get a single whiff of
domineering people wanting to latch on me for whatever reasons. AKA self esteem
boosts. I may or may not have attracted such malevolent entities.
TRUST ME WHEN I SAY I’M NOT GONNA CONDONE SUCH
THIEVING FIENDS.
I'm pledging in this 'me-space' that bro, do your best. Study hard and get the value of your money. Be strong and don't fall to temptations, and finally, be awesome, don't hesitate to call out injustice against you, boo.
aka You do you, boo.
