That going to uni feeling...

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sounds about normal

i kind of feel like ive outgrown my school but i quite like the daily routine i have
im quite satisfied with home nice and comfortable etc but i cant wait to move out and be free from my parents

basically some days i cant wait to get to uni and other days i occasionally think that it would be easier for things to carry on as they are
i suppose its all part of the way things are and everything will naturally progress in time and now im just going to sit back and enjoy the ride - until of course its exam time again

Reply 2

tinypony

I have the same problem.
There are 4 months left before all IB'ers do their final exams, worth 80% of the diploma. On one hand I really want to participate in all the social events, on another I got to get a 7 in Maths HL and Chem HL + 39 points overall to not miss the offer. I feel like not having a life in the following months, yet I know that once it's over I will repent not having done more social stuff....

Reply 3

ilovemyself

But i feel quite content here - going to lessons, partying at people's eighteenths, chatting about rubbish in the common room and attending dull lessons.

haha i love it. 6th formers take a lot for granted and have a lot to be grateful for and take a lot for advantage.

Think about it this way...you're content living like that for now, but would you be happy knowing you were going to live like that forever?

I'm guessing no, so a few months from now you'll probably have had enough and feel as though the time has come to move on. That's phase 1 in our lives over. :smile:

Reply 4

kellywood_5

It's perfectly normal :smile:

I felt exactly the same way this time last year, and most of my friends who were heading off to uni did as well. On one hand, I really didn't want to leave because I loved living at home and going to sixth form, but on the other hand, I was looking forward to being a bit more independent, making new friends and studying my chosen subject at a higher level. It's great though because when you're at uni, you miss home and it's excellent seeing everyone again in the holidays, but when you're at home, you miss uni and again it's excellent to come back and see all your friends. You kind of get the best of both worlds really.

Reply 5

Renae_nae

i cant wait to leave 6th form tbh. it feels like ive been there for too long! the lessons are long and tedious and the college is a depressing colour. If it weren't for my friends i think i'd find it even worse! even though i dont like it, i do think i might miss it. i also find the prospect of leaving home is quite scary

You'll be fine.

Im going to miss my friends/gf and the easy sixthform life style. I dont really have to do much work and get away with doing nothing when there are no exams coming up. We can bunk lessons and not get in trouble and the period 3-4 weeks before exams you can feel safe in the knowlage everybody else is stuck at home revising there arses of just so they can leave. Feels like resentment nostaligic exitement and depression all in one blow. Depending on which bit i think about.

Im scared i will get to university and find the work really hard and that im going to be abit of a fish out of water with all the hard working types. Dont get me wrong i work hard, but im pretty common and i know only about 1 in 15 people doing a levels at my school are going to go to a same level uni as myself so all these new people will probably be really intelectual and mature.

i know how you feel

I know what you mean. I just want to get out of my school, but going to uni is such a big leap, I can't quite imagine it happening in like 7 months. I'm excited but also scared at the same time, especially about missing my offer.

Reply 10

AisAis

Hmm, if I managed to get in and survive all my exams coming up (first GCSE done today, lol) and decided to go, I could go at 18. I just turned 16 this week so I could go in two years, and it was only two years ago that I started my GCSEs!

Scarey thought.

Reply 11

General Mullet

My thoughts are mainly about which university I should go to and what on earth I'm going to do if I don't get the grades I need. I haven't even thought about the implications of living miles away yet!

Reply 12

Lidka

I think everyone's feeling the same way at the moment, to be honest. UCAS has suddenly made everyone think hard about the future, and the fact that a massive change isn't very far away. Some people think it's great, some are terrified; mostly it's just a mixture. :smile:

I got my university accommodation info last Saturday, and it felt very surreal picking out a room, as it's possible I may not even be there come September - though obviously I'm hoping that I will be! I'm going to miss my college friends bitterly, but I'm really looking forward to mixing with people with the same passion for my subject, and generally just meeting new people from different places, from different cultures... it's going to be awesome. :biggrin:

Like you, I'm half-treating my life now like it's already gone. I keep thinking 'I'll really miss this when I've left', or 'I'll have to manage without such-and-such when I'm at uni.' It's all part of preparing yourself! I'm taking a lot of photos of my friends - I think that's the best way of record-keeping.

Reply 13

NickiM

We're getting a yearbook done, and even if it is expensive, I think it'll be nice just to have one. It seems so surreal that suddenly, we won't all be from the same villages in a county, we'll be all around the country.

Ahh memories..

hellohello12

All the old friendship circles will more or less disappear, I won't be socialising with the same people anymore. That girl I lke will be gone as well.

Not really. You'll be at Uni for three months, then come back in December for a month for Christmas. Then spend three months at Uni, then come back for another month. Then spend two months at Uni, and then come back for three months in the summer (I know that makes 13 months but can't figure out where I'm wrong lol, you get the jist).

You spend as much time back at home as you do at Uni, and you'll still see your home friends. MSN and Facebook makes sure of that. It's just like expanding your social group for me. It isn't as 'life changing' as you think it will be.

Reply 16

kellywood_5

Alex Mann

The time at uni goes so quickly and then you're back at home for about half that time. It's great because it's like having 2 circles of friends as opposed to just 1, and obviously with modern technology (phone, text, email, MSN, Facebook, MySpace) there are loads of ways to keep in touch with people.

Reply 17

emstar

I totally understand this, whilst i feel really ready to leave school and move on, it'll be so weird. Having been at the same school since i was eleven, going to uni and leaving school seems like such an end of an era. I really feel that i'll miss my school, even though i might complain about it whilst i'm there, not being there anymore and leaving it all behind seems so weird.
I think i've got to the point where i feel like before now it always seemed good to be older than i was (ie i was always looking forward to my next birthday/looking up to older students), but now i feel like i'll miss sixth form, 18th birthdays, common room banter- i could stay this age for the rest of my life! But yes, i'm sure it's just part of moving on, and hopefully the best is yet to come.

Reply 18

hannah_dru

It's perfectly normal. While I hate my sixth form because it's also a school and a lot of the people are rude and unintelligent, there are a handful of people there who I am really gonna miss, and it does feel like home. I feel like I'm not gonna be that big a part of their lives anymore when I go away, even though I've chosen to only go an hour and a half or so away from home. My boyfriend is worried about it being a 4 year course and I think he's worried we might split.

Reply 19

jessica1987

hey!
yeah its perfectly normal!
Im really looking forward to going to uni now, as i was meant to go last year, but had to resit my second year, due to ending up in hospital in intensive care and missing my exams :s-smilie:

So at the moment am still at 6th form, doing my Alevels, but all my friends are either on gap years in Africa, or already at uni.Therefore i already know the feeling of all the usual friendship groups ending, but trust me you end up at home, just as much as at uni, my mates are always home, and i go to see them at there unis and everything! Yeah it was hard at first, but when it comes down to it, when you move off too uni, the majority of people are in the same boat!
jess
xxx