Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat.
Why is it that saying about a goose? Is Christmas not supposed to be all about the turkey?
The other word is certainly right though..fat!
The festive period is all about eating...everything about it is always food, food and more food...not that I am complaining of course.
For all the dieters out there Christmas is a time when they can forget what they are not supposed to be eating; put all the calorie counting behind them and tuck into a roast dinner with all the trimmings and a mince pie or two, lovely!
But really...you go out for a Chritsmas meal with work mates, you eat the chocolates that people bring into the office and then you come home and much on a mince pie...and all this is before 1st December...well not quite, but you get the drift.
By the time all the pre-Christmas day celebrations have finished you have probably eaten your entire body weight twice over so when 25th December finally arrives you think to your self: "not another bloody turkey" as you shovvle the remaining bits into your mouth along with a watery brussel sprout.
Don't get me wrong though - I do love to eat and I love Christmas and all the celebrations that lead up to it...but by the end of it I am deffinetly a clothing size bigger and will start 2010, as I did at the start of 2009, wanting to loose weight.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Is further education worth the stress?
I have not been on here for a while as my course at uni has just gone into complete overdrive and has been handing out assignments after assignments left, right and centre...Oh well I guess it should all pay off in the end, right? Wrong!
Well not exactly wrong...but not right either.
Back in the day (i'm talking back when our parents were younger) university was something that only the select few could get into.
Although it may be hard for the student of today who graduates with atleast £30,000 worth of debt to believe but universities actually used to pay students to attend. Yes thats right, our parents graduated with zero debt and more money in their pockets! At the time colleges would not really push their students to go further in their education so univeristies had to add an incentive so as to pursuade young people to continue.
Now, if I look back to when I left college in the summer of 2007 I actually struggle to think of any of my fellow students who decided not to apply to university - well, there was this one girl who didn't apply but she was seven months pregnant so doesn't count.
So, if everyone goes to university then there is nothing that makes one graduate stand out from the millions of others ith equal qualifications...so you can just imagine the pressures that you would have to find employment when you are competing against everyone else...it's going to be mental!
Is three extra years in education actually worth the stress?
Well, I would like to say no but unfortunatly it tottally is!!
Just imagine yourself in the other option...leaving college with A-levels and then competing with all of those who have just left university with degrees...who is going to get the job?
Plus, all the new people that you meet will make every little step worth it :)
Well not exactly wrong...but not right either.
Back in the day (i'm talking back when our parents were younger) university was something that only the select few could get into.
Although it may be hard for the student of today who graduates with atleast £30,000 worth of debt to believe but universities actually used to pay students to attend. Yes thats right, our parents graduated with zero debt and more money in their pockets! At the time colleges would not really push their students to go further in their education so univeristies had to add an incentive so as to pursuade young people to continue.
Now, if I look back to when I left college in the summer of 2007 I actually struggle to think of any of my fellow students who decided not to apply to university - well, there was this one girl who didn't apply but she was seven months pregnant so doesn't count.
So, if everyone goes to university then there is nothing that makes one graduate stand out from the millions of others ith equal qualifications...so you can just imagine the pressures that you would have to find employment when you are competing against everyone else...it's going to be mental!
Is three extra years in education actually worth the stress?
Well, I would like to say no but unfortunatly it tottally is!!
Just imagine yourself in the other option...leaving college with A-levels and then competing with all of those who have just left university with degrees...who is going to get the job?
Plus, all the new people that you meet will make every little step worth it :)
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