7 things you only find out as a graduate visiting your old university - Debut

7 things you just discover as an alumni visiting your old college - Debut Good day, folks. Alex Ekong here, ongoing University of Birmingham graduate. That despite everything sounds amazingly bizarre to state, and I'm not exactly sure how I made the progress from awakening at 2 toward the evening and watching reruns of Pointless hungover to being an honest resident with a 9 to 6 in only 3 months, yet I'm happy I did. Nowadays, presently I'm composing at Debut, I'm roused, glad and I feel like an alternate individual. Be that as it may, in the same way as other simply joining the working scene, I considered how the upgraded me would charge doing the former me's way of life. In this way, in perhaps the longest response to 'So did you have a good end of the week?' ever, I'm going to reveal to all of you about what it resembles to be an alumni visiting your old uni and all the amusing, valuable and calming exercises I learnt. You're a visitor A photograph posted by Alex Ekong (@andthenalexsaid) on Oct 13, 2016 at 1:25pm PDT Was it generally this decent here? No, yet truly, right? In this way, Birmingham as of late totally updated their principle center, New Street Station, and it's astonishing. It's a test to cast my brain back to Applicant Visit Day and envision the little, dull, dusty station that my Virgin train spat me out in, in light of the fact that it doesn't exist any more. In it's place stands 3,300 sq. miles of white dividers, colossal lookout windows and toilets that flush with water. Trains are the exact opposite thing you'd expect in this structure it looks part-emergency clinic, part-very good quality shopping center and part-house of God. Thing is, I've been here previously. It was done not long before I began last year. Be that as it may, presently, chatting with only a duffel bag loaded with garments and no different weights, I'm really observing it just because. For what reason did all my old home bases appear to be so new to me now? It's astonishing what you miss when you'd been taking a gander at the ground the entire time. You're 100 years of age The rapture, all things considered, came fixed when I hit my old favorite premises, Selly Oak the beguiling Southwest Birmingham town that houses UoB understudies, with a populace thickness to coordinate most favelas and whose roads once allegedly held the title for the most revealed instances of chlamydia in the UK. In those days I could glance around and see peers, repeating characters, companions. Be that as it may, hardly any of those stay for me now. The vast majority of my companions who are still here have run for the slopes the satellite towns of Selly Park and Harborne to get away from the Selly Oak crazy house. My most punctual memory of anything is from when I was around four years of age. That implies that when the most youthful individual living here first understands the world, I was at that point eight. Eight. I definitely knew a huge amount of swear words by at that point! What's more, in this way at that time, I realized the world that had been mine had proceeded onward without me. So I acclimatized with the group advancing toward grounds, looking simply like every other person however feeling a whole lot more established. Your college grounds will never be done In the event that you thought your college was going to quit building things since you left, you were intensely misguided. Birmingham Uni's grounds was a structure site the entire time I was there. New corridors of living arrangement appear to venture into all the accessible space. The new library stands tall, smooth and yellow close to the bygone one which has been fenced off for destruction. The site of the new games place is as yet closing off my preferred course to the Guild. As I strolled the long route around, I checked the time. In the event that I despite everything had addresses, I'd be late at this point. Ideal to realize that a few things never show signs of change. There's so much cool stuff you passed up A video posted by Alex Ekong (@andthenalexsaid) on Oct 21, 2016 at 10:40am PDT You never truly get an opportunity to do all the cool things your uni town brings to the table, not least in light of the fact that, unfortunately, your understudy advance isn't unbounded. In any case, being a vacationer (a profitably utilized one at that) has it's advantages. To be specific the opportunity to investigate the town community at your relaxation and really shop without including the prefix window. This, as you can envision takes into consideration fun things like going to Selfridges and arbitrarily purchasing a pack so you can make sushi with your young men at their home. You despite everything love your horrendous SU club night Love it. Fab n' Fresh, the week after week Birmingham University party at the Guild of Students was similarly as clingy, bubbling, packed and tumultuous as I recalled that it. Certainly, you're encircled by swarms of weird young people, yet the self important Shoreditch clubs I visit these days never fully fulfill my longing for the turn-up. Indeed, even with a tight two-man team of myself and my last year surgeon buddy, I despite everything had a whale of a period. You realize you went hard when the DJ tails you on Instagram. Your college life was astonishing The great occasions you have at college are the best occasions you have in your life. I need to concede, I made companions forever, took in a million things about myself and I had the option to do an entire pack of astounding things that I wouldn't have the opportunity, assets or tendency to do since I work all day. Returning to Birmingham carried this to the fore for me and despite the fact that I felt like a totally unexpected individual in comparison to who I was a half year prior, my previous lifestyle was still here and I could slide directly once again into it in the event that I needed to. In any case, you don't miss it. Accomplishment opened: First day of work ? #dowhatyoulove #journalist #debutcareers A photograph posted by Alex Ekong (@andthenalexsaid) on Sep 5, 2016 at 11:30am PDT Yet, to do that is disregard all the limitations and battles that definitely accompany being a college understudy. Some of the time, the wellbeing net is what keeps you from truly flying. It can feel like your college is your entire universe now and again, and here and there that can get claustrophobic. The principal thing the vast majority I realized who had been there for a long time or more said to me was the amount they needed to be out in reality. Facing everyday life after graduation is terrifying and dubious on the grounds that anything can occur. Be that as it may, on the in addition to side, anything can occur. So don't imagine that post-graduation, your life is finished. The following stage is frightening yet it's the best one you'll ever make. Highlight picture graciousness of Unsplash Download the Debut application and you could thoroughly get yourself a mid year internship way before any other person. Follow Alex on Twitter @AndThenAlexSaid Interface with Debut on Facebook and Twitter