If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last two years at university, it’s to expect the unexpected. So many things have happened since I left Essex in September 2006 that if someone had told me back then what was going to happen, I’d have told them exactly which cliff to jump from!

The reason I’m writing this nostalgic and slightly cliché blog entry is that I’m now coming to the end of my first “stint” at Aberystwyth. On Sunday 31st May, I’ll be moving back home to Essex for 18 months and on 30th June I’ll be starting a full-time job at Colchester Sixth Form College as an IT Support Technician for a year as an assessed part of my degree course.

While this is obviously a great opportunity for me to expand my knowledge of the industry and get valuable experience in the specific area that I hope to move into when eventually (fingers crossed!) graduate in 2010, it does mean that I’ll now be out-of-sync with a lot of people who I’ve become very close to here in Aberystwyth. When I return in September 2009 to start my final year, a lot of my current friends will have graduated and left.

I’ll still hopefully be coming back every so often over bank holiday weekends, so it’s not as final as it may seem, but it has to be said that will miss both the people here and the place itself.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings – that’s your lot!