Applying to universities

Well just to update I have had an offer from both Northumbria and Leeds, Leeds are currently arranging an interview for me next year, and for Northumbria I have to have 320 points :| yep, it was a random choice to be perfectly honest but I am more than happy that it is my first offer! Having spoken to a fellow friend who came back from university today, he told me how University is just the best, how the work is easy and how not to worry about the offers just yet as most of them accept you after Christmas, that was a great relief! After having the head of sixth form snatch him away from me I walked away with a tad bit of confidence that everything will be in good time!

Now I need to work my bum off. I need to motivate myself or else no grades therefore no university. Today I received a welcome pack from Northumbria which contains everything about accommodation and fees. That is all good but it is so far away, I really do want to be away from home but in my gut I feel it's maybe too far from home. What is there's an emergency or I leave something behind? It's in Newcastle, very up north but that's brilliant! New atmosphere, new people, for all I know I may live there in the future, who knows what this brilliant opportunity holds for me! I am very nervous about London though, I have always wanted to study there, it's not too far away, yes it's expensive but it's all worth it in the end! I really want to go to Westminster  I really do! I am so passionate about London life, the hustle and bustle of everything there, I'm not phased by the moral panics of crimes, hoods, knives. Nope, that's nothing to me, the expensive living costs don't bother me either, I honestly want to make the most of my loans and be a successful Journalist at the end of the day!

I think it's new and exciting to be away from home, it's time to prove that I can be an independent individual, that I can live away, be motivated for a career then be what I want to be! I want this so much, enthusiasm oozes out of every body part, I am aware that interviews mean I have to persuade them that I know everything about Journalism that there is to know! I need to revise and understand the concept of what is in the media, but I will be honest, I need to show them that I am here to learn. I am still a student, even lecturers are human beings they still have lots to learnt too, we all do. No one is 'all knowing' are they? I need to up my game.

Motivation is hard. Every teenager has this lurking in them somewhere, some show their lack of effort more than others do. Parents/teachers automatically label this as being 'lazy'. No it's not that. It's just hard to process the seriousness, the pressure, it's like a ticking clock, then at the end the bomb will blow but we're just waiting and waiting because eventually it'll blow anyway no matter how hard to try to stop it.
Ridiculous example.

But for now I have just purchased new trousers, happy me. I also have a new jacket which makes me look very militant, according to a friend it makes me look as if I have a 'AK-7' hidden underneath it; best comment yet.

Right it's quarter past 7 right now, too late to be blogging, yet it is revising, just creatively expressing my thoughts you know. I find it refreshing.

Adios tadpoles.

"What is Journalism?" You tell me expert

Currently doing the opposite of what miss calls 'coasting' and actually researching what Journalism involves, or more importantly what it actually means.
I mean I understand what it includes, the idea of print and social media, the internet, the transmission of news to the world.
Being able to feed society news about the happening around them.
I just watched a 1940's Vocational clip about Journalism, and what it offered in that time.
Just to establish how this career came about, I am so curious to understand why this was so different from being a writer.
The idea that you could officially communicate through telephones and transfer information to the news-room, then it was that person's responsibility to transcript whatever was reported to them, this was then the basic method of producing newspapers. Yep it fascinated me quiet a bit.
To be brutally honest I never wanted to be a Journalist, as a child I had this crazy idea of sitting in a doctors seat and helping patients. Then during my GCSE's I had a phase of wanting to be a calligrapher, that then changed to wanting to be a architect. All sorts of careers just bounced around my mind.
Now that I have reached the stage where university applications have become the life of me, I should really have set in stone a career in mind. For me that is now Journalism.
Enough of that now, I must get back to my Nth tab of research, initially I just wanted to re-write my personal statement, but then I thought about widening my knowledge about Journalism and reporting, just so that when it comes to writing I can infuse what I have learnt on paper.
I do believe I can write well, it's just a shame that when other people (my teachers) read my work, they can never understand why it 'doesn't make sense'. Well I know what I am on about so screw them.

Today I was told that according to my predicted grades and my current achievement I won't get the required grades for the university I want to go to; Westminister.

Yes keep gorping, I have had enough people telling me the practicality of things, how I could afford it, whether it's the right decision.

Me, I go with the flow, I hate planning too far ahead of myself because I believe there's always changes and therefore there is no point expecting too much is there?

Fair enough aim high, but don't get ahead of yourself then be disapointed.

Preaching over.

I must go and continue the 28946283 draft of my personal statement.

I hate the two words now, it's like metal symbols to my ears. "personal statement" go away.

I do hope this is done soon, I even prayed. Yes I am so desperate to get somewhere now.

Life man.