Kiddah!

After one of the best holidays I have had for some time, using up the remainder of my season ticket to see my friends, and attending my first music festival - The Bestival - in early August. I am now at University, and everything seems to have worked out great!Though my university lacks the ubiquitous wi-fi needed to justify an iPod touch, I am very happy with my accommodation, the internet is cabled and 10 megabit. This blocks bittorrent, so none of those Linux distros for me… On iPods…Talking of iPods, I had long predicted (along with almost everyone else before the iPhone announcement) that there would be a widescreen video iPod, and I swore I would get one when it came out.

Well I lied… it did come out, and I didn’t buy it. Not just for the reason above, but also the lack of space on an 8 or 16 gig device, and the fact that an iPhone would be slightly more awesome, I’m also an environmentally conscious person, and buying unnecessary devices is a waste if I don’t use them. Finally, my iPod ‘needs’ were sort-of fulfilled when my Dad found an iPod mini left at his business, nobody claimed it for 2 months, so it’s mine!

The jury’s still open on whether I’ll buy anything in the future. I’ll blog about it.

On University…

University has presented me with an all new world to misunderstand, and I seem to have slipped into it more or less in a comatose fashion. I was personally concerned that I wanted to take a subject I found interesting, but that I did not want to lose out on learning other subjects that had come to interest me.In sixth form I studied Media, English, Graphics and Photography, normally this would mean I would have to go in a certain direction into one of these, but none really attracted me more than another. Media has always been trashed talked by the media (ironically) and other students, but ever since I took the dive in GCSE to study it, I have been intregued. It’s one of the biggest growing sectors of business in the UK, unfortunately that also means that a lot of people are already going into it; so it is unwise to join a media specific course.

Graphics? Photography? Every graphics course I looked at pointed me to taking a foundation course in art. I attempted to apply for one at 2 Art Colleges, but despite one quite positive interview I was only offered a much lower course, and I didn’t want to go back to studying with 16 year olds as an adult.English was my important course that I always thought was important to have behind me, I wanted to be a journalist back when I was 13 (and an astro-physicist when I was 15… but that went a bit wrong!) and English was always interesting and I did alright.So presented with a wealth of differing subjects from around the spectrum of British universities, I finally came across one with help from my parents.

Advertising with Design is one of the only courses of its like in the UK and seemed to be the perfect option. It mixes the marketing and advertising aspect (some of the most interesting from Media) and the artistic and design principles from Graphics.Had I had a choice I would have taken the foundation course in design first as not only is it essentially free, but would have given me additional time to decide, however it seems this was a wise choice at a great university.

On Stumbling in a Comatose Fashion…

I said briefly about me not being quite aware of what was going on, and university has presented me with a lot of work and a lot of time to do said work, however it is hard to get out of the habbit of going on the computer and arsing about for hours on end.With over £100 of books bought already it is highly important I read them, and I must come up with a plan to stop checking Digg and Facebook when I get bored.Will I manage? Well if it’s any indication, I actually blogged for once.

That could be good… but then again, it might not be!Cheerio.

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