June12012

The speech I have been dreading

Today is my final day in Lincoln as a student, and the ending of the best three years of my life. They say that when you leave University, life only gets better, and although I hope that’s true - it’s got a lot to compete with.

These three years, and in particular the last year, I have met the best people I think I will ever meet. When I decided to come to Lincoln, I was annoyed at myself for not bothering with A-levels and not going to somewhere, which one may describe as a “better” university. Now I realise that the saying “everything happens for a reason” is true. Coming to Lincoln has meant I have met people who I know will be in my life forever and I hope will be at my wedding, know my children and as morbid as it is, even be at my funeral! There are people I have met here who I will never see again, but they have had a huge part on my life, and for that, I am eternally grateful.

When I started University I was a very different person, and no matter what degree I get (thanks to the final year I’m not hopeful) the memories and experience I will take away are priceless and I would not change them for the world. Life is too short for regrets and any bad experience I have had I hope I have learnt from. I will not leave Lincoln with a bad thought on anyone, even those I met once or twice, I will think of you fondly, always.

Lincoln will have a place in my heart for the rest of my life, and the stories I have from here will be be remembered for always. University has given me the greatest friends I will ever have, a passion for sambuca, a respect for rugby boys who can make any event disgusting but amazing, its taught me to spend money even if you don’t have it - because overdrafts are there to be maxed and wearing the same outfit twice is criminal, that fake tan can be overdone and that going out in hardly any clothes is fine if its fancy dress, that getting parking fines will happen often and you’ll regret not buying £4 cheese because now you have to pay £30 for parking where you shouldn’t, that lectures are in no way necessary and that you probably picked the wrong course, but that doesn’t even matter because you’re here for the party, that you will know everyones business and at times, the gossip will be about you, people will judge you for things that they have done and you’ll believe rumours like “he microwaved a cat”. There are times when the only meal you can have is dry pasta, and again you’ll regret not buying the cheese because that would have helped with the pasta situation. Library fines are the bane of your life and you had no intention of ever reading that book anyway. Third year will make you hate education for the rest of your life and no one will ever read your disseration. Ever. Student living is disgusting, and washing is expensive, a dishwasher saves lives and walking 5 minutes to town is a huge effort.

When I step out of this Lincoln bubble I will leave behind the most amazing three years I could not have had anywhere else, and to all those embarking on this journey I hope your experience is just as good as mine. The tears, the all nighters, the terrible bank balance, the hangovers, the vomit, the boys, the drama, the gossip, the shots, the friendships, the parties, the deadlines, the fall outs, the scandal, the memories <3 To everyone I have met over the past three years, thank you for making it the best.


“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

May302012
“If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart… where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.” Everwood (via julie911)

(via quote-book)
9AM
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (via libraryland)
9AM
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” Carson Mccullers  (via anditslove)

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May292012
“I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful.” Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (via bohemea)

(via libraryland)
May262012
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A. A. Milne (via girlwithoutwings)

(via girlwithoutwings)
May202012
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
7PM
“There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not, everything eventually ends. As much as I’ve looked forward to this day, I’ve always disliked endings. Last day of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend. But endings are inevitable. Leaves fall. You close the book. You say goodbye. Today is one of those days for us. Today we say goodbye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We’re moving on. But just because we’re leaving, and that hurts, there’s some people who are so much a part of us, they’ll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground. Our North Star. And the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us, always.” Alexis’ Graduation Speech, Castle (via quote-book)
May172012
“Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place.” I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via creatingaquietmind)

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