I had a lot to think about over Easter, I was meant to send off my UCAS application over the holiday but I didn't. I've been hesitant about it because although a set and costume design course would be fun and I'd get to do a few things at a time, it's not the field I want to go into. I still feel so unsure about it that I definitely don't think that it's the course for me. There's so much that I want to carry on doing, like big pieces of art and small sculptural pieces as well as costume and jewellery making, photography, film making and make up. There's just such a variety of things that I want to continue doing and no single course covers all of those topics. I really think that I can continue to do these things on my own for a year, self-teaching and creating my own work without the guidance of an educational institute. I want to have the time to push my online store as well as spend more time on projects that I've wanted to work on such as small video parts of skating and learning to skate myself. I think I need another year to make a decision on a course or to not go to university at all and I've had a lot of people agree with me on this, giving past experiences of not doing the right course for them or rushing into something and then never using the skills they've learned.
University should be something that you're so sure about and have such a passion for that you apply months before the deadline. University is for people that have at least one career in mind before applying or even before starting college or 6th form or sometimes even their GCSEs but I believe there's too much pressure to make this decision early on. I doubt that I'll want to be doing the exact same thing for the entirety of my life so I'd rather teach myself and be average at a lot of things and take my career path wherever I want than be excellent at one thing and be unhappy stuck in the same job. Of course there are a lot of people that are more than happy in the same job and just have such a burning passion for one single career path that they never feel the need to do other things, but I just feel like I have that same burning passion but for so many different things I can't let myself settle on one or two - I have to follow them all.
University should be something that you're so sure about and have such a passion for that you apply months before the deadline. University is for people that have at least one career in mind before applying or even before starting college or 6th form or sometimes even their GCSEs but I believe there's too much pressure to make this decision early on. I doubt that I'll want to be doing the exact same thing for the entirety of my life so I'd rather teach myself and be average at a lot of things and take my career path wherever I want than be excellent at one thing and be unhappy stuck in the same job. Of course there are a lot of people that are more than happy in the same job and just have such a burning passion for one single career path that they never feel the need to do other things, but I just feel like I have that same burning passion but for so many different things I can't let myself settle on one or two - I have to follow them all.