A Letter to My Younger Self

Dear School Hater

It’s the final stretch before university begins! I’m sure you are super-excited. I know how much you think going to class in high school sucks. Waking up at 6.30, ironing your school uniform and shoveling down the breakfast Mom cooked for you. You can’t wait for the day when you can go to class just when you feel like it, if at all. Life would just be so much more bearable, hey?

REALITY CHECK! You’re at university, no one has washed your clothes, and you overslept and missed breakfast. You are exhausted from only four hours of sleep because you were up late finishing an essay. You have the earliest lecture so you think you’ll just skip it… but the lecturer is going to be discussing the term assignment - you have to go! If I’ve learned one thing, it is to forget whatever you’ve seen in the movies. You know, when the girl flounces into class with perfect hair and a fresh face. Ask any student: bloodshot eyes and bedhead is the look most commonly sported at lectures!

I don’t mean to make it sound all bad. There have been too many funny and random incidents in lectures for me even to recall, from crazy lecturers to guys coming to class in dresses and having a dogfight go on right behind our chairs! If you can see the funny side of things, you’ll get through. But ultimately, and I hate to say it, lectures are there for you to learn from, not for you to try out your new look or to have your ears tickled.

Don’t be one of the deluded ones who fall behind just because they view lectures as “optional”. Be on time and make the effort. You will be at a serious disadvantage if you don’t. There’s no other way to say it: go to class!

Peace and love
Pinks