Final Year Bucket List!
I really do not want to be the bearer of bad news but the clock is ticking and you are looking at the beginning of the end. I promise that I’m not trying to be the harbinger of doom, just want to give you a friendly nudge to give you a heads-up, just to make sure that time does not slip through your fingers.
Being a university is a bit like being on holiday. You can’t quite understand how good it is until it’s not there anymore. So, September is a good time to take a look around and work out what you haven’t done that you wanted to do and how you are going to get it fitted in around your final year project AND getting a job lined up.
Final Year Bucket List
Ok, the best piece of advice that I can give you is this: if you have spent the last 3 years flirting with someone AND they are not attached AND they have flirted back, seriously consider doing something about it. This may very well be your last opportunity to see if you could both give it a go. When you graduate, you won’t get to spend such huge amounts of time in lectures, bump into each other in the library or have a series of near-misses in the union. The thing is, if you don’t try you will never know. Here’s the options: it works, you get married and settle down to be blissfully happy; the chemistry just isn’t there and you are just meant to be good (flirty) friends; or do nothing, say good-bye at Graduation and spend the rest of your life wondering if they were ‘the one’.
Next! Make the most of where you are. You probably spent hours analysing the location of your uni while you were choosing where to go. You’ve been there a couple of years now so you can ask yourself (and be honest) ‘Am I making the best of what I have got?’ Most of Scotland’s universities are a stone’s throw from some of the most beautiful spots in Europe. Lancaster has the Lake District. And the Cornish unis…..wow! City centre institutions are right in the heart of the buzz. Have you visited all the free museums and galleries on offer, tried an opera or been to a ballet? If you are at a seaside uni, how much do you use the beach? Do you wait for the sunny days of the summer? Or do you get out in the wind and the rain and clear the cobwebs out? Uncover your uni town or city, submerge yourself in the fabric of your temporary home – it might be your last chance.
Try something new. Nowhere else will you have the ability to rock up and join a club or society with the range of choice that you have at uni. It is like school, but so much better. Clubs and societies allow you to meet up with like-minded people in your spare hours and develop a really rewarding network of contacts across uni – you’ve got one more year to try something new.
I know that you won’t believe this one, but study. Most final year students won’t go onto further study. This may well be the last chance that you have to study your subject right up close. Once you graduate, you will use what you have learnt, but you will probably spend more time on your professional skills than your academic specialism.
There’s four to get you going. What else will you stick on your final year bucket list?