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Five years ago, I had just taken my GCSEs. I don't think I'd thought this far ahead in my life other than wanting to go to university (though I wanted to study electrical and electronic engineering then). And now I'm one year from finishing my Masters degree, so I'm pretty much there.
One year ago, I'd just finished my second year, my worst (academically speaking) so far. I hoped I'd do better, and whilst I didn't do as well as I wanted to then (my expectations were perhaps a bit unrealistic), I've pulled my grades back up, so I'm happy there. I also hoped one year ago that our relationship would last this long - and that's more than exceeded my expectations, we're happy and our relationship has only got stronger. So yay :-)
Am I happy now? Well, life isn't perfect, but I'm definitely happy. I've a girlfriend whom I love dearly, I've got brilliant friendships with people that could easily have fallen apart with my moving to university, but didn't and I'm thankful for that. I've got good friends at university too, and academically I'm doing well. I'm working full time now to support myself next year, earning good money for (usually) interesting and challenging work.
One year from now, I'll know if I have my Masters degree. It's going to be bloody hard work personally and academically, but I'm damned if I'll get this far and give up. Hopefully by this time next year I'll have the beginning of my career planned - I don't know what I want to do yet, I'll start applying for graduate jobs around December I should imagine.
In five years time... my plans are that I'll have moved up in my career, own a place of my own, and we'll be living together. I'd like to have my student loan paid off to allow me to emigrate for a while, but I think that's a dream rather than a plan in that short time :-(
I'd like to travel the world, and live in some different countries for a few years too.
-- Miguel.
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AUTHOR OF THIS MESSAGE
Miguel
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09 july 2006, 18:16:48
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