Freshers fortnight is here! I started working for the SU this week. I spent the weekend helping out at the Welcome Hub in Grand Parade. It was good fun and my new colleagues are a really nice bunch of people.

Today is my last day off before becoming a post-grad student! Tomorrow I enrol and go to the welcome programme. I’m not sure what a welcome programme is, I just know it’s on my timetable.

Before I can even acknowledge my nervousness, I need to get my head around my disbelief. I don’t know when I’ll be able to do that. I felt excited and ready for my undergraduate degree last year. I figured I’d eventually graduate in 2020ish and then I’d need to take some time out before working up the confidence to apply for a Masters. But, here I am a year later, a university drop-out about to start a PG Cert. This feels like something that doesn’t normally happen.

I took today off because I’d been working a lot lately (trying to save some money) and I wanted to prepare for tomorrow. I didn’t prepare. I just loitered around my favourite Brighton places and felt sick for drinking milkshakes too fast. I felt super-tired but I wasn’t able to get any sleep.

My head is swimming with questions about what I am going to do next. Shall I complete my Masters the following year? Shall I go back to working fulltime? Shall I start looking for museum jobs out of Brighton? But I know I shouldn’t be thinking that far ahead because this year is going to be a challenge and my priority is facing that.