I have just arrived home for the winter holidays and was sharing with my parents my thoughts on university education. My first two posts were published in a more negative tone. I will not attempt to deny it- university life is intimidating and not a rosy picture as one would imagine.
However, rather than being put forward as cynical or even, trying to be overly possimistic even if there is no reason to, I would rather just say the truth. This truth, though, does not come with all ‘woe me, my world is doom’ kind of thought, but a more hopeful one, because we have to fall in order to stand up. We have to lose something before we can truly appreciate what we have. A sense of hope. After all, this is what the journey is about- finding our own light at the end of the tunnel.
No doubt, tertiary education can be daunting, but if you are willing to take things step by step, you’ll find the experience extremely rewarding and you will become the person you never thought you could be.
