Running out of time- university.

If one person could give you three, genuinely good reasons to complete a degree there would be a serious reward to obtain. Yes, it can put you ahead in the world and yes, it keeps you off the streets but is it really all it’s cracked up to be?
After being in Chester for almost three years the end is finally in sight, but what have I actually learned? Sadly I will admit most of the course knowledge has evaporated and at times there needs to be a person with a very long stick behind me, constantly making me work.
But uni has left me with no clearer idea on what to do with life or which path to take. If anything these past three years have confused me more, revealing more career options and genuinely making me feel like a very dodgy ant, inside an ever increasing ant hill. (Whether ants actually live inside or on an ant hill still personally remains unknown. But I never said I was a zoologist!)
On the plus side uni allows you to grow up, sample various alcoholic concoctions, willingly steal road safety equipment and prove that narcoleptic sleep patterns can happen to the masses.
University is possible the worst form of preparation for what is waiting on the outside world. The daily 9-5 schedule sounds about as appealing as eating kangaroo testicles and the thought of £30,000 debt makes selling yourself that bit more of a necessity.
So in short; if you want to move out, make some amazing friends and you have a few grand lying around, go to uni my friend! If you have amazing patience and are hard working, dedicated and decisive, then go to uni. If you need a degree and have a future plan, so set in stone that it resembles Stonehenge to a 3100bc Amesbury man, then go to uni.
But a word to the wise, don’t go if you are expecting to leave with a wallet full of money and are just trying to kill a few years; you’ll end up with an impressive collection of photo albums for facebook and little else.
However, minus the revolting food, screaming cheer leaders and appalling living conditions, uni really is worth doing. Contradictory I know, but chances are you won’t be the future you, if you don’t give it a go.
The only advice is if you are going, then go. Don’t pull out after a week, month or a year, stick it out. You never know, you might end up with a few friends for life and a degree you are proud of under your belt. No innuendos intended.
Can you tell there is only 10 weeks left…?