Hello my friends!
As you know from a few weeks back, I have had some life-changing news to share with you, but because I didn’t want to jump the gun and tell you before it was 100% confirmed, I left you waiting in dispense… until now!
I am extremely happy, excited and proud to say that I applied to do an MA in Music Industries at BCU and got accepted!! YAAAAY!!!!
Some of you might say that me getting accepted was a no-brainer considering I’ve been working on-&-off in the Music Industry for a while, but let me tell you something, it definitely wasn’t!
Before I started my BA I had this glorified image of university and what it would be like, and sadly, my university years were mostly horrible and down-right depressing. And if that wasn’t enough, there was never really any encouragement or help from any of my lecturers either, despite the fact that I, in a way, were paying them for a service. They had their small share of “favourites” who they helped and “took care of”, and in a way wrote the rest of us off – or that’s what it felt like anyway because I never ever got the support or help or encouragement that I wanted/needed/asked for. They just made me feel really shit and stupid.
In hindsight, I can probably say that the only positive thing that came out of my bad uni experience was that I, in a way, worked much harder in my “working life” to make up for all the things I thought I had been bad at when it came to my studies, and had that not been the case, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today.
But having that said, I’m slightly torn about how to feel about getting accepted. I mean… I am genuinely so so sooooo happy and excited about the prospect of working with fantastic people like Andrew Dubber, Tim Wall, Jon Hickman and more. And I know that if it hadn’t been for Andrew’s encouragement to apply this year and Tim’s great advice and help on whether I would have time to do it part-time and work full-time, I probably wouldn’t have applied and got accepted in the first place. But honestly speaking, I am also shitting myself because I’m slightly insecure and scared that I might not be cut out for it, not smart enough and so on.
However, I have decided to ignore those feelings for the time being and just enjoy being happy and excited and proud.