It was a write off.
I did it, it happened, I got through it. I enjoyed it while it was my present, but let's not go back there.
I'm back in Aberystwyth University now.
And for the first time in my life, I've been seriously considering my future. Like. Seriously.
I was dropped out of my Masters course recently, and advised to only take my degree as far as a Bachelors. While this greatly upset me at the time, I think it's a blessing in disguise.
I don't want to be a research physicist and spend days and days typing in numbers and getting wank all results back.
I want to teach.
When I was starting on my physics career back in 6th Form, I was told by my physics teacher, that I would never get far in the field because I was a girl.
This, as you may imagine has put some serious fire in me ever since. But it makes me stop and think, how many girls are selling themselves short because they've always been told science is a mans world.
It bloody well isn't.
How many young girls would benefit, in their crucial years at school, having a girl, not too different from them, actually encouraging them to pursue their dreams, despite what they'd always been told.
So instead of a Masters, perhaps a PGCE? Who knows.
All I know is, apparently I couldn't get far in physics because I was a girl.
Being a female physics teacher in the UK with a 2:1 degree gets you a MINIMUM £25,000 tax free bursary with head of department ambitions, even headmistress qualities.
Put that in your bloody pipe and smoke it Mr Harper.
