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For me, the toughest part of starting University was making mistakes all the time.

My brain turned every slip-up into the manifestation of some personality flaw, every casual choice turned into a giant mistake. If this sounds like you, try to discard some of that shame. If you can’t cast off your shame that quickly, enquire about those feelings instead of being afraid of them.

Run your hands along your own self-defeating edges until you get a splinter, and pull the splinter out and consider it.

Are you supposed to stay in a degree you hate as punishment for your debts?

What if you reached out to other people, even as that feels awkward and difficult?

What if you just decided that you’re really into pinball, today, right now?

It’s okay to want more and wonder how to get it. University is a time to step into the light and be seen, shame and failures and fears and all.

Today, you have countless chances to reinvent and rework and reorder yourself and your experience.