An Update.

In the last few weeks I have dropped out of university, started a new blog here that I'm already failing at updating as regularly as I'm supposed to even though I'm the one who decides how often that should be, and am spending my days applying for writing jobs, journalist jobs, tv production jobs, radio jobs, media internships and anything else vaguely relating to any of those, most of which are at companies that I've never even heard of.

Should I be using this time to write a great novel, or a screenplay, or even the blogs that I'm already supposed to be writing? Or even finding some other work to keep me going while I apply for things I want to do? Probably. But instead the most I'll write is an introspective look at what I'm doing now for the benefit of no-one.


I am officially the most useless person I know.

University - The Final Complaint

It's all a game. You do well at school; you get to progress to college/sixth form. You do well there; you get to progress to university. You do well there; you get to do the job you want and have a wonderful happy life and blah blah blah.

Screw that. I'm done with the game. I'm opting for the alternative method. I'm throwing the board in the air and I'm not playing any more. Some say that's quitting, some say it's cheating. I say fuck them. You can all carry on with the game if you want, but I've had enough of it now. It's gone on too long and there's nothing worth winning at the end of it.

Come and see me when you've finished playing. Let's see who wins.

The Frustrations of Student Life

University.

It's just a bullshit place to go when you're too old for bullshit school and too young for a bullshit job. The only benefit of it is that it doesn't matter about your actual age, just the age you feel. Middle aged failures take degrees as "mature" students because they're still too mentally young for the real world and they've been falsely led to believe that this will help them. No-one's pointed out to them that "mature student" is an oxymoron.

But university is not a place to grow up. And, contrary to what most people think, it's not a place to celebrate your youth. It's the middle point in life - only not in the middle. It's the transitional period between virginity and addiction. This is no secret, but the common belief is that this passage eases the transition between the two. This is not true. It just prolongs it. Like an rabbit scurrying down a hole after a fox has bitten it's leg off. It's safe, but it's still going to die.

University isn't even a place to learn. At least not any more. There you simply find the exact same problems there were when you were at school. All you learn is how to pass exams. After that, you can forget it. Knowledge doesn't come from places of learning. Knowledge comes from everywhere else. If you're lucky, the most you'll learn as a student is that nothing will ever live up to its hype and vodka-redbulls are for fags.

But not everyone has these revelations.