Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2017

It's Christmaaaaaaas

Hello again, Referring to my title and one of the most famous Christmas songs - its Christmaaaaaaas! This means that our jolly aul fella is coming, alongside exams, assignment due dates and most importantly - the wonders of working in retail at Christmas. In fear of sounding negative, yet wanting to express my feelings at the same time, I've had a bit of a bad few weeks. My expectations and projections were unrealistic, and receiving rejection from a graduate programme I was certain I'd get had brought me crashing and fumbling back to reality. I'm handling things in the best way possible; one day at a time, although I'm running out of days. Speaking of, my second last semester in college is nearing an end - which seems absolutely insane. It feels as if I'm still in my first year, getting lost on the way to Marlborough st. The increasingly difficult modules in our final year are what really make the transition from education to industry a reality. It's terr...

How to eat an elephant

Like many of the hundreds of thousands of students across our beautiful nation, I have a part time job on the weekend. I've been there for three years so it's a nice little cushion to pad me through until the real world starts. For the past three years, my Saturdays and Sundays have been dedicated to the needs and wants of the outdoor consumer. Sounds ideal, even easy - doesn't it? Relinquishing my weekends, my free time and my sanity over this period of time has slowly grated on my patience and my will to work academically. Especially in final year, I find I am constantly exhausted and the mountain of work I have been slowly chipping away at has turned into an avalanche. Nonetheless, on one of my many tirades about my stolen weekends at the cost of my pitiful income, my mum brought me back to reality on my way to work. She reminded me how to eat an elephant (metaphorically speaking; see blog 1). You eat an elephant by taking one bite at a time. The moment she reminded me...