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Goodbye 2011
For me 2011 has been abit of a mixed year I’ve had some great times! I got to go to Ireland, Scotland and California for once in a life time trips! Trips that I know I’ll never get to experience again, it was also the start of my last year of university which means this time next year I’m going to be back in the big ugly world of work. But I’ve also had my fair share of blows it was definitely an emotional year but for better or worse it’s shaped me into the person I am now and thats what matters.
I’m hoping 2012 will bring along more new adventures and opportunities!
My New years Resolution? I chose a simple one for this year- Do More and Care less.
The do more is about taking more chances and just being more active with alot of things in my life and the care less is about not reading too far into stuff or pinning my hopes on things.
I hope you all had a good New Years and 2012 is a good year!
Sam
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Christmas
So yet another Christmas has been and gone and if I’m honest this year wasn’t too bad I guess (compared to last year where I spent Christmas day on my own!) But there was something about this year maybe because it’s been too warm or just wet but it hasn’t felt like Christmas!
Still I got some pretty cool stuff I got a new Mountaineering bag witch without getting too geeky is pretty awesome and I got some cool gloves and a couple of cool maps of Scotland. Pretty much I just got a load of cool stuff for climbing/walking/mountaineering!
I’ve also tallied up the cost of the rest of the gear I want to get and it’s going to be another £1000 or so.
which means I’m probably going to have to wait till I’m earning! But it’s something to aim for!
I hope you all had a good Christmas!
Sam
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Achievements!
Today marks 100 years since Amundsen reached the South Pole and with this achievement and the spirit of exploration I’ve decided to set myself a target to climb this!
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The real cost of a degree.
I think when it comes to doing a degree alot of people seem to focus on the financial cost but it’s easy to overlook the hidden costs of doing a degree.
The way it effects your life is how I think it costs you the most.
Doing a degree takes alot of time and effort
and this has a huge effect on your friendships with people and with even your family, it means that you don’t have as much time for your friends as you did before and can’t spend as much time with them especially if like me you choose to study away from home. I know in my time at Plymouth I’ve drifted away from people who used to be some of my closest friends! Don’t get me wrong I known alot of them would be there when I need them, but I know were not as close as we used to be.
The is also the lingering thought of if I’d stayed would I have got closer to those people I was starting to have feelings for?
It also makes me wonder where I’d be now if I hadn’t done a degree, as alot of people I know who chose not to go to university are in long term relationships, are expecting/have children and have decent stable jobs.
The is also the emotional cost of doing a degree. I know us students don’t nearly do as many hours as people working full time and I respect the people who do 8 hour days 5 days a week a heel of alot! But jobs like that you can generally “turn off” at the end of your shift or working day/week. With a degree its 24/7 you can never turn off and your always thinking about that next bit of coursework that needs to be done or that you should be reading that journal article, and with that comes alot of stress. The stress of getting bits of work in on time. especially when that means staying up till stupid o’clock in the morning to get it finished.Then the is the way it changes your view of everything.
I study physical geography and geology which mean I spend alot of time looking at how the earth and landscapes have changed over time.
This now mean that I can’t go to a beach without being drawn to cliff and I can’t look at a beautiful view without wondering how it was all formed.
There is something upsetting in that.
I know my degree has totally changed the person I am and I know it’s taken its toll on me. But despite all these hidden costs I feel it’s been worth it! I know once I finished I’ll be a better person and I know I’ve developed a whole load of skills that I’d have never of gained.
I know it’s abit of an essay but it’s something thats been on my mind of recent and I wanted to share it!
Sam
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One bad weekend!
This weekend just gone was a pretty bad one I must say!
I had two pretty big bits of coursework in for Monday and me being the idiot I am sometimes didn’t start them till Thursday (you can see where this is going!?)
So yeah I spent most of Thursday and Friday writing about the effect of land plants on the rock record!
Sounds like great fun I know!
Normally I’d be ok but this essay really managed to get to me! So much so that I now actually hate the module which it was part of! I couldn’t bring myself to even go to the lecture for it today!
And then Saturday and Sunday was dedicated to an 8 page report on the effect geology has on landslides in Devon and Dorset which may sound boring but after 2 days of talking about plants it was a welcome break!
Although I know I didn’t do either piece of work to my full potential which I guess is the most depressing thing of all about it!
And to top the weekend off I’ve managed to somehow screw up my back and so I’ve spent most of the weekend either not being able to move much or drugged up on painkillers!
And to top it all off I pay £3,500 a year to do this!
Anyways I can’t complain it’s all over now and I’ve only got a week left till I finish for Christmas a week that can’t be over soon enough, I’ve emotionally and physically drained right now!
I hope everyone else has a better weekend then I did!
Sam
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Home
This weekend I decided to come home for my brother’s birthday, which meant a lovely long train journey from Plymouth to London Paddington and then across to Victoria and then finally down to East Grinstead. I journey that I have repeated far too many times since I started at uni.
The weekend was good though, we went out Friday night to the Swan in Forest Row for a nice meal then went drinking Saturday night and then for a family meal Sunday. I was then meant to go back to Plymouth Monday morning but Ben said he’d run me back Wednesday instead which I don’t mind as it is quicker to get to Plymouth by car and means I don’t have to deal with trains.
Although I’m worried that by staying home a few extra days I’m going to get out of the “flow” of uni which is the last thing I need right now as it’s that great time of year where I have mounting essays and stress.
I just hope that once I’m back in Plymouth I can knuckle down and crack on with the work I need to.
Sam
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So I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated Tumblr and I’m sorry!
Life has been abit crazy of recent.
I’m now in my final year at uni which is just abit scary!
But it meant that I recently got to go to California and Las Vegas which was pretty awesome and really interesting from a geological view!
Since Then I’ve not really been up to much just the standard student life of lectures and napping with the ever present fear that I should be doing work!
Anyways I’m goign to start trying to keep more up to date with Tumblr from now on!
Love from
Sam
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A new
As I look down at the corner of my laptop screen the time reads 00:00 normally this wouldn’t invoke any emotion in me but for some reason the end of this day and the start of a new has excited me.
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So Tumblr It has really been a while hasn’t it?
I’ve kept meaning to write but I keep getting worried if I do write it’ll just turn into a moaning rant.
I mean don’t get me wrong I’m pretty happy at the moment, but everyone has dark days and it’s those days that I come closest to posting something one here,
And no-one wants to read that.Anyways life has been pretty samey recently when I’m not in Lectures or doing work then I’m on the xbox or going out.
I guess thats pretty standard student life.I’m off to Ireland just before easter which should be pretty nice, I love the Irish country, such a beautiful place and talking of beautiful places, it looks like I’m going to be doing my dissertation field work up in Scotland, on a small Island just of Skye which should be pretty awesome!
Anyways thats all I’ve really got to report.
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About 6 months ago I posted some tattoo designs on here saying I wanted to make them my own before I got them done, well I did just that, I sent hours re-drawing and re-designing until I finally plucked up the courage and had a design I liked and I finally got it done.
Everyone has their own views on tattoos and thats fine, but my view on it is a tattoo has to mean something not just what it’s actually of but also the time and place you get it done ect.
My tattoo signifies a compass to show my love of my degree, I also got it down in Plymouth to remind me of my time down here and I got it on the 6th of October a month after my 21st and my father’s birthday and finally I used money that I got from my 21st to pay for it.
Anyways thats that out of the way, I want to focus on my last post!
Middle to late October has always been abit of a depressing time for me, I have alot of memories that haunt me, Plus I’d just found out that someone I’ve kinda had a thing for isn’t single anymore which is always a blow.
But I’ve decided this year I’m going to try and not let stuff get to me, plus I’ve got more important things to be doing and to be worrying about!
Laters Tumblr!xx
