I've just finished my first year and at the beginning of it I got sucked into the void of club promotion foot work, naively thinking that that was a valid way to get into the music industry.
It could of been alright if I hadn't of said so many cringey things in groupchats and just done every stereotypical first year blunder. I think I had so many expectations of uni life, standards I thought I had to live up to and the idea I wanted to be this important person that I actually forgot to be myself. I did meet a lot of friends and learnt an extreme amount. But I just feel so much shame and dread that a whole lot of people got a very weird/bad first impression of me and I can't change that. I also think I would of made better connections if I had been more authentic instead of OTT and intense.
Personally I don't really remember specific people saying cringey things in GCs and I know I'm answering my own question here but I just need to vent and hopefully get reassurance that nobody really cares? Or maybe they do? Do you care? Are promoters the bane of your life? Surely if you're not super cringey in first year you're doing it wrong? Let me know