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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!

Blog off!

I had very good intensions for this blog in January when I first started putting this 'ere web site together. I had visions of an insightful daily ray of Blog-light that would be read more than Belle-de-jour. But then agian I was un-empolyed back then and had A LOT of time on my hands. Its funny how un-important a blog becomes when you get in from work completly shattered, but yet I somehow feel guilty for negelting it!

This must be a modern day thing, feeling guilty about something techy and abstract like this, Its not like this page is going to die or anything if I don't feed it, or the blog neglect team of social servies are coming to arrest me if I dont write a few lines about stuff that only I'm that intrested in, but I still get the occasional 'I MUST DO A BLOG' feeling.

Bizzare I know, but surley I must not be alone in feeling inexplicable guilt for techy-neglect. In the 90's loads of people didnt feed there Furbys or tamogotchi's and felt bad for weeks. Even today Nitendog's on the DS is responseable for many a person (not me you understand!) switching on there DS's before bed, just to check in there virtual puppy's thirsty.

So I might start a self help group, Tech-neglect-anonymous. Once a week in a village hall somewhere, we can meet up and stand in front of a group of people and share storys on what gadget or computer game we havent been devoting enough time to, and walk away feeling purged!

Any takers?