The fact i am on the home stretch of my college experience and handing up my finally assignments is actually very sad. It feels like only yesterday i was calling my mam saying how amazing my first week of college was. Oh god how uneducated i was about the real world when i moved away from home.. i had to live with strangers, i had to cook for myself and i had to make new friends but you know what i didn’t do to bad if i say so myself.
A lot of people say that college was there best time of life and i totally agree with that. It did take me a month to get used to living away from home and having to actually do college work without my parents nabbing at me to get work done. I would sometimes miss my 9am lectures because i went out the night before or i would hand up an assignment wrong because i didn’t read the brief properly but these are things that i have mastered over my 4 years in Carlow.
I’m glad with the fact that i went to IT Carlow instead of a big university. My friends are all up in college in Dublin and i’m shocked with the fact that there are more than 80+ people in their classes. I was blessed with the fact that i only had less than 30 people in my class and i made so many friends. I lived in Carraig Adiann for my first year and it was the best experience ever. Imagine a bunch of first years from all different courses bringing out their sofas from their apartments and sitting on the green, drinking cans and chatting till all hours. I’d say if i didn’t live there in first year i wouldn’t have made as many friends.
There is a lot of things that i am going to miss about IT Carlow.. I’m going to miss running over to college rugby training and having a laugh with all the girls and coaches. Debating if we should or not to go out for a cheeky pint after training or pushing back college work for a day because you want to hang out with your friends. I will miss the late night chats.. the endless take away and not worrying about gaining weight. Going into college hungover as hell but still having the best time.
Meaghan x
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