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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

   University Rant O_o
Current Mood: Optimistic
Currently Listening to: An episode of Stargate in the background.

Well... My exams are finally over and I've had a little space to breathe properly.

But, y'know, with my exams finishing - I've started to have a strange outlook on life. It's not just about the here and the now anymore. It's about the future. I don't think "what I'm doing now" I think "what I'll be doing next year". With mine and Kal's Japan trip after uni, I'm even thinking that far ahead. It's a strange feeling, that's for sure.

And for any Britons out there, what're people's reactions to that university bill the government's just passed? It's insane... They're making us pay completely for our own university education, and I'm sorry, but several thousand pounds a year does not grow on trees. Now, I know the Americans currently pay for their own education, and some of you might want to point that out. But you've got to remember that we're on a fairly similar wage (ie, we get the same amount for the same types of jobs) and an American cost of living is a lot less than British costs of living. So this new bill just means that, instead of the government helping us through education as it's always been in the past, we've now got to get more loans out than before to cover it all.

Another stress point on this is, we have to start paying our loans back when we're on a certain amount of income. Well, when I go to Japan, my wages will be about £1000 a month, after insurance and rent. So, will they be expecting me to start paying it off then? Because that'll make me seriously freak out. I need the money to live in another country, not to pay back student loans and university fees.

But I am going. If I have to starve myself for a year I'm going. O_o;; RWAR!
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