University?

I knew that the decision to go to university was always going to be a tricky decision to make as colleges over the country are sending off their students UCAS applications and the students are preparing for their exams. I'm one of those hundreds of thousands of students, I'm in my second year at Sixth Form and doing my A2 subjects. Over the past couple of months I've been thinking about heading off to university in September, however after spending hours writing my Personal Statement perfecting it making sure that it read okay and that it gave me the highest chance of getting in I made a pretty big decision, one which I may live to regret but right now it seems like the best thing for me...

I made the decision to withdraw my UCAS application. Why? I wasn't ready. Yes, I thought I was but only after finally sending off my application it dawned on me that I wasn't prepared for the stresses of university especially as the course I had chosen was Child Nursing. It was a full time course 5 days a week as well as placements, assignments, exams and living away from home. I wasn't ready and that was okay. University isn't like Sixth Form, you can go whenever you like whether that be in 5, 10, 20 years time it didn't matter. The thing was, not everyone thought the same. My college is very forward in wanting their students to go to University, all they talk about at this time of year is UCAS, Personal Statemets, accepting offers as well as how to go about sorting accommodation. They don't really do anything for those people that don't want to go to university or want an apprenticeship instead so I'm really left on my own with what to do.

What I'm really saying is it's okay to change your mind right up to the point of collecting your results in early August. Don't let anyone force you to do something that you're not entirely happy or comfortable with. And if you decide in 3 years time that you want to go to university that isn't a problem, that door doesn't close.

I hope this helped some of you who might be concidering to go off to University.

See you next Sunday,
Love Lily
Xoxo