Is anyone else is getting nervous about starting University? Not the crazy can't sleep kind of nerves but a sort of constant Niggle at the back of your mind. Worries that you're constantly reminded of when interested relatives ask you "If you're nervous about going to University?". Particularly difficult questions to handle are those asked by the parents. Do they want to know that you're looking forward to university or would they rather hear that you'll be sobbing your eyes out whilst you wave good bye to the bedroom which will be converted into a spare room the minute your back is turned? It's not really the going away from home that bothers me, more the making friends all over again and living in a completely new place. I've done the usual displacement activities and lists of everything from books that I'm supposed to be reading to clothes that I just can't live without are scattered all round my room but I'm beginning to realise there's only so much preparation you can do. I've already put it off for a year whilst I took a gap year and having survived cockroaches, the world's most dangerous road and really sleazy Mexicans I should be able to handle this. But, however confident and independent I'm now supposed to feel, I'm still dreading that moment when I'll be sitting in my new room trying to sum up the courage to go outside and start that round of introductions. Maybe it's best not to think about that just yet, I've still got to learn to cook before October. Hmmm perhaps I should start making a list of all the meals that I'll need to be able to make... Veronica Could you be a student diarist?
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