Hi guys! I don't know if you can tell from the title, or the photo of me in a stupid hat - but I graduated this week! And I thought what better time for a life update post than this? I graduated from Manchester Met with a first class honours in English literature and I am so proud of myself!! I was also given the subject award for graduating at the top of my class. I'm just so overwhelmed and shocked by the whole thing. If you were to ask me 5 years ago if I would ever have thought that this was possible I'd have laughed in your face. 

I finally know what it is I want to do with my life, I have a part time job and a place on a masters degree from a university that initially rejected me because my grades in sixth form were too low. That alone just shows how happy and content I am in my subject. It's this drive that is going to propel me forward in both my career and academically. If you were to ask me now what I want to be doing in five years time, I'll tell you that I want to be will be a lecturer of English literature, with a PhD and still blogging alongside this.

I originally planned for this post to be a post about my past and some of the stupid decisions I made, but I'm looking forward today. I cannot wait to see what academia and the blogging world have to offer me in future! I'm excited, and I'm ready.

Have you got a five year plan? Have you recently graduated? How did it go? Let me know in the comments!

Seeing as though my post on why I think we should stay in the EU went so well, I thought I'd throw caution to the wind today and react to the outcome of this referendum. I am still adamant that we should have chosen as a country to remain, and the fact that we are going to be leaving is really disheartening to me. As many of you know, I am from Liverpool. A city, which before the EU was placed into a "managed decline" by the government, essentially left to rot. As a scouser, then, I have seen MANY of the benefits that the EU had to offer, and for that to be taken away - I just cannot get my head around it. 

I'm about to graduate university, on the 20th July actually. I find out what my degree classification will be on Monday, I should be worrying about that. I shouldn't be worry about what is going to happen to my future now, whether or not I will be able to pursue the career that I've set my heart on -or whether I'm going to be able to afford a mortgage. But here I am, worrying about all of that - because politics is unjust. I feel cheated by the older generations selfishly casting leave votes because "oh we won't be around for much longer, so it doesn't matter" (actual thing I overheard on a bus). I feel cheated by David Cameron, for resigning (never thought I'd say that) and leaving us in the middle of all this - with the thoughts of an unelected PM. And finally I feel cheated by the fact that this generation, now, thanks to those older than us are graduating university with £30k+ fees, we have no pensions, we can't afford to own homes and we've now lost the right to live and work in 27 countries. Please note I'm not trying to start a debate here, I'm just gobsmacked by this outcome especially when 75% of my generation voted to remain - the generation who have to live with this decision for the longest.

We have had our futures decided by those who won't be around to see the majority of the fallout, and that is what saddens me the most. 

*Normal posting will resume tomorrow, promise!*

I know that a lot of people going into their final year at university are starting to think about their dissertations now. And as someone who has just finished uni, and got a first in her dissertation I felt like I could give some advice on this topic! So here are my tips for getting a good grade on your dissertation at least in English lit (though I'm sure some of this stuff is transferable), and how to deal with the work load that envelops it!

In my most recent post I told you of how I went to my boyfriends house for a week to take my mind off the impending doom that is adulthood (you can read about this here). I love going to my boyfriends house, he lives in Snowdonia and it's just so picturesque. Granted I got dragged up a mountain and actually fell in a river during my week there - but it was such a good week in which we just hung out, met some more of his family, barbecued drank and walked about a bit. Standard. 

Hi guys! I felt like sitting down and writing a little life update today. As you may know I have recently left university and will be graduating in July! This period in-between has been full of uncertainty and confusion and I can only imagine any recent graduates will only be able to sympathize with these feelings of doubt. Will I ever get a job in a field I enjoy? How am I going to fund my MA? Will I ever move out of my parents house? I just feel the need to get all of this out now that my boyfriend and I are back from his house in North Wales. The trip was a way of taking both of our minds off of the looming future - and also included a wedding, lots of beer, a barbecue and me falling into a river. A post on that week away will be up shortly!

Leaving university has been both exciting, confusing and disheartening for me! Exciting in that I have had the time to recollect on my time at uni, start planning on my future and in turn start blogging again. However, I have been for a multitude of job interviews to no fruition, I can't get work in certain places because the interviewers think that I'll move on as soon as a better job comes along now that I have a degree - which granted they aren't wrong! I can't be a bartender my whole life, but it will sure as hell keep me content whilst I finish my studies!

Another thing that is is SO weird about finishing university, is going from living on my own and seeing my friends and boyfriend every day to living at home and over fifty miles away from my nearest friend. It's such a culture shock and one I'm going to have to get used to over the next few weeks - and hopefully by then I'll have a job to add some routine back into my life!

Have any of you guys recently finished university? How are you finding post-student life?

After finishing my undergraduate degree I have found that for me the best way to stay organised is through bullet journaling. This post is going to showcase how I set up my bullet journal for a new month and a general weekly spread layout I tend to use! I'll also include some shots of me actually using this journal so that you can see how it works for me. I first came across bullet journaling on tumblr, and it has honestly changed my life and made me a much,  much more organised person. If you're like me and like crossing things of to-do lists - then this method will definitely work for you!

I thought I would kick off my first blog with a recount of one of my favourite holidays to date, Amsterdam 2016. My boyfriend and I went for my twenty-first birthday for a weekend and it cost us £180ish flights and hotel! I was so buzzing with the price and the timing and just everything about it! That is until I got ill, really ill! I couldn't walk past one of the coffeeshops without a lung coming out of my mouth. Non-weed-smoking aside, I really had a great weekend in Amsterdam and cannot wait to go back next year (hopefully)! Here are a few of my favourite pictures from  the weekend, much to a lot of peoples surprise there are loads more things to do in Amsterdam than going to coffeeshops, so in a way - I'm glad I was to ill to even walk past one, even if it might have put a grey cloud over the weekend.