Thanks to Sam Joyce for this week’s guest blog!
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Final year students are real people, contrary to the belief of every fresher. We are not just burnt out husks that spend every waking hour desperately cramming in the library. In fact, final year students often go out, socialise, and have a good time like the rest of the population. Despite the increased workload and stress of finals, your last year of university can actually be the most fun. Here are some of the many reasons to embrace your advanced level of education.
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1. You finally know your way around town
The benefit of going to some of the worst clubs in your city is you know to avoid them like the plague next time. Although far from a local, you’ve been around long enough to know how to have a cheap drink and a good night in your city. More importantly, you know exactly where your parents should take you for lunch when they come up and visit.
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2. Purpose and drive
Your gap year, if you had one, was a long time ago – so there’s no danger of you ‘finding yourself’ in third year. Your many semesters at university have given you a certainty in the person you’ve become. You may even have a plan for after you graduate, or at least the strong feeling that you want to get far, far away as quickly as possible.
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3. You know who your friends are
You probably panicked in first year and signed up to live with a bunch of individuals from halls who may not have been the soul mates you thought they were. There’s no danger of making that mistake twice, your associates in final year are a tried and tested group of pals – and all those terrible people you met in Freshers’ week are a distant memory.
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4. You have become a more well balanced person
Although you may still enjoy a drink, this is not the be all and end all of your life now. Perhaps you run a student society, have developed an interesting hobby over the last three years, or just became more of a rounded out human being. There’s more to the interests section of your CV than ‘sleeping’ and ‘drinking tea’.
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5. Sense of superiority
This is really what it comes down to, the ability to hear the nervous chatter of first years, smirk, and remember that you hold all the knowledge on campus. That’s right; you know exactly where student support is and have got topping up your printer credit down to an art form.