Fate's Warning

I'm most depressed. Well, I'm not actually all that depressed, but a bit melancholy all the same. Not actually at the moment, though. So it was a bit of a bad start to the post all round. But with the Spring break now upon us, my practicals getting written and the project seeming like I actually have to do something to it soon, the fact remains that soon there will be a repetition of what happened four years ago - life as I know it will split apart, and, true to Douglas Adams' word, will reform as something even more inexplicable and confusing (although this time in another country rather than a hundred miles down the road).

And I'm just beginning to enjoy university, as well. True, the fact that the lecturers are on strike and I have very little work at the moment probably helps, but I feel that I have wasted a lot of my time here. And I don't mean through normal procrastination or anything like that - I just thought that I would enjoy the whole experience more. In the early years I put myself in six-hour Chemistry labs instead of the "Maths for Idiots" and "Computing for Turnips" courses that other people are wise enough to do in first year. And outside of class, it took me two years too long to refine myself down to a group of friends that weren't characterized by high-school-like politics, rumour and general backstabbing. I thought that getting on with people at university would be far easier than in Academy, and I was happy with my first impressions. But there are events, people and things said that still anger me then I think about them even now.

The point of this post isn't to generate sympathy comments, it's to encourage everyone who isn't leaving this year to not waste their time, and to not take things as seriously as I did, not to make the same mistakes as I did, and just to make sure that you can enjoy the whole experience. Enjoy it while you have the chance!