University Life and Mini Uni Room Tour

Hello! 

As I type this, I have now been at university for 3 weeks which is crazy to think as it feels like it was freshers just two minutes ago but it's all go with assessments now, actually I'm using the excuse to write this blog to stop me from doing the assessment. I feel that procrastination is going to taking up 90% of my time this year.

Honestly, since I have come to uni I have binged on Netflix and Amazon prime (since it's free for 6 months) and I have no regrets. While uni life has been a lot of binge watching rubbish films and TV shows there are other things that have taken up my time here so far.

Homesickness is one of those things. I told myself on the Saturday morning that i moved in my uni room (which is MASSIVE by the way but more about that later) that I wasn't going to be homesick and that everything was going to be fine. However, that certainly wasn't the case for me. I would go to my room every night for at least 10 minutes and have a wee cry to myself and then phone my mum and cry down the phone to her saying I couldn't do this. This resulted in me going home the first friday night of uni but i have to say this did make me feel so much better and now I love it here. Yes, I do still struggle from time to time but I'm still adjusting from going from living with 2 people that I have known all my life in a clean house to living with 9 people that I have known now for 3 weeks in a flat that smells of off milk (lovely!). 

Another thing that has taken up my time is getting used to cooking for myself, doing my own cleaning and washing (which I did take home last weekend). Cooking is fine, I did that at home very regularly as my mum, brother and I rarely ate at the same time. But since moving into halls, I have become very lazy with it (maybe due to the disgusting state that the kitchen is in) and rarely cook a proper meal unless you call fish fingers, chips and beans a proper meal. Cleaning obviously doesn't happen that often in the kitchen/living area of my flat but due to the size of my room, I need to tidy it quite often, hoovering it ect and to be honest, I quite enjoy doing that, I don't know whether it's because I'm used to a tidy living space or because I'm putting off doing my assessments but I do enjoy it.

While I thought first year was going to be more about partying and less about work. It appears to be more about work and less about partying (or at least it is in my case). Now, I'm not the biggest party animal so I'm not really that bothered but seriously 3 weeks in and I'm already doing thing that count towards my final grade for this semester and that's scary.

Even though I'm scared that I'm never going to pass this course, I'm also excited to see what the next four years bring (if I pass this year). 

BRING IT ON!

Also since I have mentioned the size of my room, here are a few snaps of it. I understand that this really big for a uni room but I have been given an accessibility room as I am disabled. However I was unaware of this until I arrived at the room and I feel so lucky to have such a big space to live and study in. Excuse my face, I was sooooo excited!

Thank you for reading

 Jodie Leigh 

xo