{"id":7225,"date":"2025-06-25T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:28:38","slug":"i-cant-wait-to-leave-uni-and-i-am-not-at-all-scared-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/satire\/2025\/06\/25\/i-cant-wait-to-leave-uni-and-i-am-not-at-all-scared-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t wait to leave uni and I am not at all scared of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, yes, graduation, the most exciting time of the year, where campus is once again buzzing with life. Relatives and friends revel in the cheap cost of visiting the city and delight in the ability to force you to be proud of yourself. But this year, yours truly is slated to walk across that stage, so everything is stressful and bad actually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As hordes of people descend for a week into good old Old Aberdeen, here I am confronting the reality of wearing heels on cobblestone (and something about a four year degree?). And don\u2019t get me started on wearing robes in July! Your gal is not built for double layers in the summer, that\u2019s why she moved to Northeast Scotland to begin with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am ultimately excited for the ceremony, because I like attention, and what\u2019s more attention grabbing than a crazy get-up and mandatory celebratory pictures where I look great? No, the real daunting reality is after graduation, wherein you and I enter the Real Adult World.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am really looking forward to this shift into more priorities and less free time (I say with no gun to my head, I promise)<\/span>. In fact, who wouldn\u2019t want to get up for work 5 days a week instead of class 3 days a week? You\u2019d be crazy to not want what you do on the day to day to actually affect people instead of just yourself. In fact, I can\u2019t believe that I haven\u2019t done this sooner! We might just have to switch to the English system and cut these degrees down to 3 years at this rate, because I am chomping at the bit to become a real adult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh and that\u2019s if you get a job! I\u2019m looking forward to graduating into this recession because it will give me an opportunity to display tenacity in the face of hardship, and demonstrate my ability to push through difficult times. Plus, I won\u2019t have time to confront the reality that me and my friends won\u2019t live within walking distance of each other and don\u2019t have the money for a night out if I\u2019m constantly filling out job applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the best parts of being an adult will pull me through though. I can look forward to losing my Young Scot card, and having the opportunity to be mindful and present in my home (because I can\u2019t afford to leave it). Indeed, being seen as an equal by people that have had decades more experience in this world will be a privilege, not the scariest sh*t ever. <\/span>And I can look towards bigger goals, like a long-term career, or starting a family! Can you believe that people our age are doing these things?? Surely they only exist on social media\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Who would\u2019ve thought I would be waxing poetic about uni? If you had talked to me during any exam season (or even just a 1000 word assignment, or a particularly taxing reading) I would\u2019ve told you I couldn\u2019t wait to leave. But I will admit, that was short sighted! Because the real adult world is infinitely more scary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, I have a last ditch effort to stave off the real world! This is genius, and it will revolutionise my life! Yes, that\u2019s right folks, I have decided to do a postgrad degree! Now I don\u2019t have to worry about the real adult world ever\u2026certainly not in one small year from now. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, yes, graduation, the most exciting time of the year, where campus is once again buzzing with life. Relatives and friends revel in the cheap cost of visiting the city and delight in the ability to force you to be proud of yourself. But this year, yours truly is slated to walk across that stage, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[230,886],"wf_post_folders":[228],"class_list":{"0":"post-7225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-satire","8":"tag-maggie-johnson","9":"tag-satire"},"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Maggie Johnson","author_link":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/author\/maggiejohnson\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-Credit_-Martin-Alfonso-Sierra-Ospino-via-Pixabay-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Satire<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Satire<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Maggie Johnson<\/a>","satire<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Maggie Johnson<\/span>","satire<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 4 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 25 June 2025","modified":"Updated on 5 April 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 25 June 2025 16:26","modified":"Updated on 5 April 2026 16:28"},"featured_img_caption":"Martin-Alfonso-Sierra-Ospino-via-Pixabay","series_order":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}