Day in the life… Final Year Uni Student, Part Time Procrastinator

The new university year has finally hit with full force. Deadlines are starting to flood in, dissertation research is looming, my diet has deteriorated considerably, and I’m of course ignoring all of these things and instead spending my time sat here writing a blog post. Standard life of a student, right? Who really needs a degree anyway…..

My days naturally start with my alarm, which gets snoozed 3 times every. Single. Day (my new phone only lets me snooze it 3 times, I can assure you that there was naturally absolute pandemonium when I found this out half asleep on a Monday morning). I’ve had to get up super early this year to get a bus into uni, which has been piles of fun. I live in a town about a 20 minute bus ride from campus, but here at Warwick buses have now gained a new reputation for being absolutely shocking at actually turning up, and getting you anywhere on time. Standing out in the cold under the never ending rain for half an hour really puts you in a chirpy mood for the day ahead.

My timetable is shameful. 6 hours a week kind of shameful. I’ve spent about 25% of my time at uni arguing to friends that Sociology is a ‘proper degree’, but these kind of contact hours are just something I can’t bring myself to even attempt to justify. Today I had 2 seminars, nicely sat across the middle of the day so lunch was a bit of a struggle to squeeze in, but I had my favourite seminar Sociology of Education today, and as an aspiring primary school teacher, I can finally say I’ve found an aspect of my degree which isn’t boring to me. It’s only taken 3 years.

     
                               (what I should be doing vs what I actually end up doing…)

Time at home is spent doing hours of readings for my seminars which make zero sense to me, no matter how many times I read them again and again. I’ve come to the conclusion that sociologists just cannot bring themselves to write in nice coherent, simple English, and all of them have set out on a mission to make studying for a degree in Sociology one of the most boring and painful things known to man. But still I persevere. I say that like I’m some sort of trooper, I only persevere purely because I really have to. I also say that like I’m a great student who uses all their time in the most effective way, doing all of my readings. I’d say about 75% of my time at home is spent sat in my lovely warm bed, or on my laptop avoiding readings through hours endlessly refreshing Facebook in the hope that something exciting will pop up (it doesn’t), or on Youtube watching way too many videos and vlogs by those horribly addictive British Youtubers.

And as a uni student who clearly has a fair bit of time on their hands, you’d think I’d have the opportunity and energy to cook myself a nice, healthy dinner to end the day nicely. Vegetable soup counts as one of your 5 a day right..? Chocolate biscuits are also my worst enemy but we’re just not going to talk about that right now because I definitely don’t currently have the biggest chocolate biscuit shaped food baby going on…

Being a finalist is a pretty enjoyably boring business.

xoxo

Music Favourite | August | Troye Sivan

I’m going to be a bit cheeky and make 2 posts in one day because well, why the eck not! The month of August seems to feel like nothing but a distant memory now, so I feel I should probably make the effort to post this now before it starts to lose its relevance…

This is something I’d ideally like to make regular on my blog- sharing an artist or a song which I have really been loving each month. I’m willing to admit that at times my music taste can be very questionable, but music is something that is pretty important to me and wading my way through both my old music collection and new music really does pass my long journeys to and from university very nicely. I’m hoping to create something to look back on in future months when I get the old ‘music block’ and don’t know what to listen to, so I can listen to something I know I once really enjoyed!

So here is August. TRXYE.

At first I thought this was going to be a bit of fad. Sometimes it feels like Youtubers have such a ‘cult’ following behind them that anything they put out into the world will be welcomed with open arms and absolutely loved no matter what. But I guess with these things it’s only fair to give it a go, and let yourself form your own opinions instead of just accepting those already placed out there on the internet for the taking.

Not only is Troye Sivan a well-established Youtuber very much at the top of the game in this new wave of social media stars breaking through and getting noticed by mainstream media, but he has proved himself to be pretty flipping talented when it comes to music too. I’ve been watching his videos on Youtube for quite some time and all of his videos and his collabs never fail to hold my attention and make me smile. But his music didn’t need my predetermined like of his character for me to want to listen to it on repeat. His music is genuinely good and holds a place of its own separate from his Youtubing presence. His style of music is right up my street, and the EP Trxye was definitely top of my playlist towards the end of August, having admittedly spent hours sat with it on repeat.

If you haven’t given it a listen, do! I promise you won’t regret it.

 

xoxo