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| Clever Girl... >> Ambition >> Sydney University "Oh god... this is such a saga. Honestly, your uni should be on TV - I'd watch it every night!" - Anuja Ahhhh... the good old days of Sydney University 2006, the number one rating Australian soap opera of 2000. The temporary ratings slump of 2001 was disappointing but expected, what with the distinct lack of backstabbing and torrid love affairs characteristic of the first season, but as the drama heated up by mid-year the viewers all came back. In any case, it's strange to think that I very nearly came close to not winning that part of 'Jenny' (yep, Jennifer Aniston who plays 'Rachel' on Friends - you're a cluey one ;)) and experiencing those tears, that heartbreak, that horror, and those bangles. ;) I always planned to go to UNSW, to live in a college, for Christina to tie red ribbons on the door of the room she was to share with Eleni. None of this happened, of course, but such are the fantasies of thirteen year old girls. Sydney always seemed too... pretty for my tastes. And anyway, I was planning on studying psychology. One afternoon I was excitedly telling my parents about a magazine I was going to make - 'Teenie', I believe it was to be called, a satirical magazine not unlike what Big Hit turned out to |
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| be (yes, I do have an astute understanding of the different niches in the teen market ;)). My father asked me if I really was going to make this magazine, there was pause, and I said no, it was just a pipe dream. But then it occured to me that it didn't have to be a pipedream, and it was at this point I decided to do Media and Communications. The Sydney program looked good, sure, but UNSW Arts (Honors) offered a free trip overseas for a semester (NYC here I come!) and UTS was the preferred course of the time. I guess, in the end, I decided to prioritise my career over my desire to live in New York City (a good thing, seeing as New South would have left me without the option of dropping English Honours at any moment I so choose), but, while I was starting to lean towards Sydney (mainly because of the internship and because my tendency to change my mind at a moment's notice meant a wider course was preferable), I was still undecided. Wentworth may be drab, but before the second coming of Manning it served a worthy purpose, providing many hours of fun, laughter, tears, and scooby-gang memories. Engineers aren't all that unbearable. And at the end of the day I guess we just have to live with the cafeteria food. I'm such a sentimentalist. :p Wow, I sold it to you? back |
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| Until just a few days before preferences were due, I was going to all the final open days with my friends, and Saru and I ran across the courtyard. It was then that I realised this was where I wanted to be. That moment, and the plethora of cute guys I saw running around (none of which, I might add, I have even seen again - they must have all gone to UNSW). So, here I am, and for once in my life when I've been given free choice as to what I want to do, I haven't actually yet cursed myself or gone through an identity crisis about what I really want (well, not career-wise, at any rate). Despite my continual leanings towards procrastination, I have an enthusiasm for my course paralleled only by Dawson's Creek's Andie MacPhee. Yes, I truly believe that I'm doing the best Media and Comm course in the country. (Somewhat naive? Perhaps...) Over the past two years I've met some great people, some of whom I can't imagine having ever survived without. And while I cringe at the idea of these being the best years of my life (some aspects are so empty it's near unbearable), there's not really much I can make fun of. |