First Week of College!

Hello, my lovelies! Today I thought I would give you an insight into my first week of college and other bits & bobs that have happened to me this week.

 

My older brother has always told me about his school experiences; there was one where he smacked a teacher he hated accidently in the head with a football...

But anyway! One thing in these conversations that springs to mind a lot is that you have to do what's best for YOU and your studies regardless of where your mates are going, where you think you'll get on with the teachers most, or where you will have the most fun.

 

 

This first week at college has been quite a challenge! 

 

Finding my way around the college has been really tricky! In college, there are two blocks called the 'South block' (S) and the 'North block' (N). All of my lessons are on the second floor of the 'S' block (S2). Now, you would think that anyone with any common sense would realise that if every single one of your lessons is in 'S2', you should stay in 'S2'. Me, however, decided to take the opposite approach at least 5 times this week and go all the way around both blocks of the college in a huge circle, only to find myself back in the place I started. Hopefully at some point in these next two years, I'll learn that in order to get to my lessons on time, I should stop being an absolute idiot.

 

Something else that I have been working on in college this week has been to be much more focused in lessons. I have realised already that college is a MASSIVE step up from secondary school in lots of different ways, one being subject choices. In secondary school, you have to pick the four subjects and then do them for two years alongside compulsory subjects (like maths and P.E which I HATED). At college, you get to stop all of the subjects you are least interested in or are not good at and do four subjects that interest you in depth. I have picked 4 subjects which I enjoy studying and so I am already much more focused than I was in GCSE (where I had the attention span of a chair).

 

 This first week has also been about meeting new people who, in future, could be your best friends. By this, I do not mean, "forget your old secondary school friends when you go to college! You'll make better ones!", I mean that you can add to the number of them and be more sociable. Splitting up with the people I have grown up with has actually been quite hard for me and for everyone else (which is why I am so glad that at least one of my best friends and many of my other close friends are at the same college as me) but what has made it easier is that, already, college has given me the opportunity to meet some lovely new people. Hopefully, I won't scare people away this time...

 

So what I have taken from college this week is that your first week of a new start is always going to be hard, but if you make the most of it, you'll take the most away from experiencing it (such as making new friends, being more engaged and focused, and not being an idiot).

 

On a lighter note, yesterday evening, me and my 3 best friends met up to go out for dinner at Pizza Express and OH MY GOD the food was a-ma-zing! But honestly, I have missed the two that I do not go to college with soooo much and it was great to have a catch up with them and to all be together again for a bit.

 

So, this week, not much has been happening apart from college, homework, and Pizza Express. But I loved this week regardless.

 

I hope you're all having a lovely Sunday and enjoy your week!

 

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS
Megan xxx