Val: The next chapter

Well, it’s my final week of uni (forever!) and how do I feel? Nervous? Excited? Scared? To be honest, I feel torn between mixed emotions. On one hand I’m excited to be finishing university and to be able to apply all the knowledge I’ve learnt the last four years to ‘the real world’.

I am excited for a new stage in my life, filled with opportunities and new ventures where I have the freedom to explore and discover who I am and what I want to be doing. I am also very excited to be at the end of an amazing four-year journey. This journey has allowed me to learn so much, to meet so many amazing people and to really become the person that I am today.

While on the other hand, I’m nervous. I’m nervous about losing the comfort of going to uni – a safe place where I know I am supported and cared for. I feel nervous about not knowing what’s around the corner, of where I want to go and what I want to be doing. It’s sort of like that feeling of finishing a really good book. That feeling of when you’re at the end of the chapter and you wonder if the author is going to write part two of the story.

So as I ponder and grapple with both emotions, I am comforted to know there are many others like myself going through similar things and feeling the same way. At this very moment, there are people who are graduating, finishing university, finishing VCE or even finishing a large chapter in their lives. So if you’re in the same boat as me, don’t worry, you’re not alone. There are many others like us, who are waiting to see what’s next and to see what’s in store for us in the next exciting chapter of our lives!