The de-studentisation process

II was told by my mum roughly five years ago to 'put off the real world for as long as possible'. And that’s what I did, by going to Uni for four years! And as that was coming to an end and the real world beckoned I thought to myself 'screw this I’m going to do an MA' (I must point out that wasn’t my conclusive reasoning for extending my Uni life, but this is a blog not my life story)

My student years were fun, (in many ways that I won’t go into now!) But the result of being in higher education for so long is that you become institutionalized, and there comes a point when you can’t put the real world off any longer.

I moved home about five months ago, and to be honest (up until recently) I was shell-shocked. By that I mean I was living like a student for so long that I was heavily in denial that it was all over, I continued with the same music, attitude and bad diet! I can see now why so many go for un-necessary third or fourth runs at higher education, Civvy Street is just too much.

Recently I snapped out of all this and now have come to terms with the real world, although I've never served in the military I would imagine the shock of going into civvy street is similar to that of a 'career student' like me finally coming to the end of his run.

Goodbye endless beer and pizza, hello sobriety and taxes! Let the de-studentization process begin!

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