Spending time on campus

There’s much less need to be on campus this year. A few block-weeks here and there, three to four days a week spent doing non-academic work and before you know it, another term has flown by without you feeling like you’ve been at school at all. That has certainly been my experience this term.

As tiring as the first year’s fixed schedule can be, it forces you to be around campus regularly. This is useful given that, you know, that’s what you’re paying fees for! In this sense, some involvement in clubs is a good way of getting you back on campus to meet people even if there is little going on lecture-wise.

However this detachment from campus will become unavoidable before too long. By necessity we will all disappear to different jobs and countries before long. Once working, it would be a shame to never visit the school again; more likely is that we get on with day-to-day life, popping in every so often for the occasional alumni event, coffee chat or club event. So perhaps being a little detached this year isn’t such a bad thing. It needs to happen before long anyway. Of course, this all assumes time you used to spend in lectures is now being spent on other productive things. And no, sleep doesn’t quite count…