Lily Tibbits’ Student Life #153
I’ve made it! I’m in the final stretch of university, with only a few weeks left until I hand in my dissertation (a twenty-minute TV script, which feels like cheating compared to a 10,000-word essay). My stress should be firmly fixed on that looming deadline, but instead I keep finding myself getting anxious about what comes next.
This is the point where everyone in my year is panicking. The all-too-frequent question of ‘what are you doing when you graduate?’ is met with the look of a deer in headlights. The end of university comes around far too quickly, and the realisation that part-time jobs are going to have to become full-time careers is a scary one.
I’ve found myself stressing about finding a job after university a lot recently, b
ut I have to keep catching myself. There’s a lot of pressure to go on from university to the best job ever that you’ll stay in for the rest of your life, but it doesn’t always work like that. What you want to do doesn’t always find you immediately, so for now, I’m happy to just go with the flow.
Besides, university isn’t over yet. I want to savour this last month, not wish it away. If I’m going to stress about anything, it should be my dissertation, which I should be writing right now actually…
