It’s been a while since I’ve blogged properly. With all the best intentions, it often falls by the wayside - just as I knew it would when I started! Here’s a short update, at least…

I got AAB in Computing, Law and Music Technology respectively in my A Levels. I’m heading off to Durham University, which was my first choice, to study Software Engineering at Trevelyan College. I’ve been chatting to people who are going and I’m really looking forward to it. We’re one of the later universities to start, many people seem to have gone or be leaving already.

My life has settled into a hub of rotating around my job, planning for university, and music. It comes at the expense of some things I’m missing right now - I haven’t read a book in weeks, or touched my piano much, but I’m caught up in the middle of a fast-paced job in a fast-paced industry that’s my main hobby too.

Work has been one of the most intense and rewarding things I’ve done in a long time. I’ve learnt a lot and made some great friends, and honestly worked on projects where I’m proud of the outcome. It’s the motivation that’s been missing from education - not a monetary gain, but the realisation that something you’ve done is being used, that whatever the bugs and issues with a piece of code it actually has a raison d’être… which in turn seems to give development itself a purpose.

It’s going to be a pretty crazy few weeks (not like the last few haven’t been akin to some sort of rollercoaster) getting ready to leave, but this is the next challenge. It’s been a long seven years, and for the first time in memory I’m starting to think I’m making something of myself. This is a temporary position; a stepping stone, but the main purpose is to reach the “end goal”. That’s quite a while away.

For now, the purpose is getting as much out of this as I can, and getting ready for the next adventure.

Tags: university, work

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