Sorry for the cheesy title – but the song seems to be quite apt at the minute. I’m trying to keep hopeful, and tell myself that there’s nothing I can do and I need to wait and see what happens – but it’s looking more hopeless by the minute, and I’m going to have to make some tough decisions pretty soon.
I want to be a midwife. I know I want to be a midwife, and it’d be a shame if I never get to be a midwife because it is a career that really interests me – but I don’t know if I come across as passionate enough about it to get in. And that’s if I even GET to an interview – at the moment, it looks like they only want people with work experience (living where I live, that isn’t easy), and all the courses for 2012 entry are closed. So, right now it looks like if I want to do Midwifery, it’s going to be a gap year for me – I can’t see myself being taken on for Midwifery in Clearing, and although people keep telling me to keep hoping, I need to be realistic now – hope is all well and good, but it’s not going to get me a university place. Let’s look at the facts – I have a personal statement completely geared towards doing Drama, I have no work experience in Midwifery and no-one had any idea I even had an interest in it until last month. In Clearing, I’ll be up against people with midwifery-geared personal statements AND work experience – they just didn’t get past the interviews for their first choices. Being realistic here, I really don’t stand a chance.
I’m trying not to let it get to me – I hate moaning, although I seem to do a lot of it – and I’m determined not to let it spoil the next few months, but it’s so hard. I’m getting so confused – being bombarded with stuff about University and seeing these kids on TheStudentRoom who’ve had their whole lives planned out for ages and have every chance of achieving that and having a simple, smooth application process, getting into Oxbridge and not sitting up, wide awake because they can’t sleep knowing that they need to make a decision. And then I have people telling me to keep hoping and relax, but I can’t! I don’t want to keep hoping until the morning of results day, when I wake up (if I even get to sleep) and realizing that when all these people are looking forwards to going to university, I have nowhere to go – if I take a gap year, the most productive thing that will come of it will be getting to tenth prestige on Call Of Duty because there’s a pathway to nursing course taking place nearby, but I really don’t like the sound of it. There’s no jobs available and basically, nothing I can do. I need to go to university this year, otherwise my only other option is go back to college, and there’s no way I’m going back to that hell hole. It’s a struggle to keep going in day after day at the moment!
I’m really at a loss as to what to do. I had two offers and three interviews for drama-related courses which I applied for in a rush because I knew if I put it off I’d keep changing my mind (I guess that’s the definition of irony), and I declined them all and now I’m stuck in a rut. Why didn’t I leave things as they were? Yes, I probably wouldn’t have been thrilled with my course, BUT I’D BE ABLE TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW!
The temptation is there to just jump at the first course I see in Extra/Clearing that looks as though it might interest me and spend a year doing that until I can sort out what I want to do next – but then I have to work out finances and applying all over again and the same thing might happen and there’s so many things that could go wrong.
All I want to do is hide in a corner and let other people make my decisions for me. I’m 17, and what I choose to do now will have an impact on my future, both in the short term and the long term – I don’t feel old enough for these decisions!