I've just graduated from Bournemouth University with a Degree in Communication and Media. I had an amazing three years educating myself in more ways than academia could ever begin to categorize into tidy boxes. I've emerged the other side a better person for the experiences I've shared with my peers, but am now discovering that I'm not quite sure where I fit having finished my seventeenth and final year in Education.
The other side of University is a tough one. It feels lonely, without purpose, and bewildering. Within a week I lost my home, my friends and was thrown back into a life that I'd spent 3 years growing out of. The worst part is there is no date to look forward to when I will get my life back... that chapter is closed whether I want it to be or not.
I'm very lucky to have a wonderful family, my Mum went through the same experience after leaving Uni and will happily sit up commiserating with me while I try and work out my new route. I have a wonderful boyfriend who doesn't moan at my hideous mood swings... always resulting in a bursting into tears and a blubbery 'I'm so sorry I just miss my friends.'
But I'm 3 months in and still feel completely lost... the only solution I can come up with is to win the lottery and live in a 20 bedroom house with all the people who make me feel like me again.
Someone once described University life to me as living in a bubble... it becomes you're whole world... the Bournemouth bubble has truly burst.
