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Messed up again

  • 07-07-2009 10:24am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I need to let off some steam. My family have enough going on and don't seem to know what to do/say to me.
    Living with my ex for years and in January this year i finally said i am going to college and get my life in order. the thing is i applied to a college a few miles away so that i could come home to him every day. i wasn't totally pushed on the college because deep down i wanted to move further from home but i thought for the sake of our relationship it would do the job. however we split up and i rearranged my college choices in time for the cao deadline. but the first of the offers came out yest and i got offered the nearby college. i'm really really hoping i get other offers.
    i'm beginning to wallow in self pity today because i know i've made the mess, not him. he used to tell me to go to college, move away and do well for myself but i was too afraid it would harm our relationship. but in hindsight it probably would've helped us.
    i don't want to go to this college in particular because i'm back at home living and i'll be up and down the road to the college for the next 3 years, and i'll be 30. but i don't want to waste the next year. i feel the pressure of my age, having nothing to show for it.
    uh don't know what i'm looking for here but at least it's kind of off my chest.


Comments

  • #2
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Hi,

    I'm a ffirm believer that we should fight for what we want until there really is no more hope (and the fighting at that point just depresses/drains us). In your case, the fight is certainly not over. In this day and age, colleges will accept things unconventionally, by a direct route. As a mature student, this applies even more so. You must be 26/27 now, right? I'm 26 and will be starting a PhD over in England in August. It wasn't my first choice, but I've fought and failed to get elsewhere.

    So, what I suggest is that you contact other colleges directly to see if they'll take you. Otherwise, you might just have to accept the place that you've got (perhaps taking the view that everything in life happens for a reason).


    Kevin


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