near the end of my second Uni year.

The 2nd year of our journalism degree is pretty much winding down now. The TV assignment is done for the 14th and two Law exams 17th and 31st to go and then we will be on the slippery slope to 3rd year. Suppose thats why I feel in a contemplation kind of mood reflecting on what has been so far.
I got my one and only first grade this week and it was in Archaeology, my elective, I wonder if that was trying to tell me something? Specialise in that and then write for a journo publication! Not really, I am content with what I am doing now.
Especially as this summer is taken up by 3 placements. 1 two week placement at my local radio on the news team and 2 one week newspaper placements so it should be a good summer of experience and relaxation.
Anyways, it's 2 years on May 4th that I passed my driving test first time and just to brag and so far not had an accident ;) It may be cheating a little bit as I haven’t been driving all the time in them 2 years but I remember the day of passing my test as if it was yesterday and it ranks up there with one of the best days of my life! I couldn’t believe it and still feel so happy I can drive and have a clean licence.
Another thing (as I am in a reflection mood) is how I actually got into Uni in the first place, it’s weird how things work out. When the time came to apply I knew I wanted to do journalism but only applied for 5 courses and didn’t even apply for the sixth. I got in 4 and rejected for one and at the time I was on a BBC Manchester mentor project scheme and I had a personal mentor who recommended Preston when I said I was doing journalism and he said I should apply.
However, Januaury came and I thought I had no chance but I decided to use up my 6th slot and I was torn between Preston and Staffordshire and if it wasn’t for my BBC personal mentor I may well have gone for the latter.
I got my results and they weren’t high enough really, which has been pointed out to me by several people, but I guess due to my work experience beforehand I was allowed in. So I rang up and was surprised to find I had got my place at UCLan and that was another day which was full of happiness as I learned I would be off to the Uni I wanted.
I feel I was lucky to get in and have tried to make the most of it, which hasn’t always been the case but its not through lack of effort. Uni hasn’t been like I expected and I’m still not sure I made the right decision to stay on at the end of my first year but here I am nearly at the end of my second year getting ready for my law exams and finding out I got a 58% in my issues presentation which wasn't what I wanted.
Another thing, is the Uni's decision to merge the print and online routes in third year. When it came to making our choice I choose newspapers but due to the lack of people taking both routes and the "convergence" of print and online they have decided to merge the routes. Now, on one hand this is great as we will be the first print and online graduates and it is the way the industry is going but on the other hand we are going to be the preverbial guinea pigs like we were for Law this year which went tits up but hopefully it will be ok. I'm certainly looking ahead to the challenges third year will bring!