The future

Last night, I found out that I got into the University of Sydney's Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications).

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Sorry about the outburst, but I am so excited!! I have wanted to study this course for nearly five years, and I was so nervous about getting in I had my eyes shut while the UAC page loaded and then jumped round the house screaming when I found out.

So FINALLY the HSC is done with! My ATAR and my marks don't even matter anymore, and I can just get on with the future! The future used to be something which really terrified me, but now I'm starting to feel a lot better about it all.

I used to be scared about losing my friends as we all went off to different universities, which I guess does still worry me, but now I'm much more convinced that we will make an effort in touch. I also used to be scared about a change in routine, but now I can't wait to make university the main way I fill my days. And I used to be scared about making my way in the difficult field of media, but now I can't wait to do internships and work experience and just get as much experience as I possibly can!

I now can't wait for the future - for uni and new friends and enriching opportunities. But I'll also still be blogging here, hopefully even more frequently and about really interesting and mature things ;) Hopefully this will be the last squeal-y post on my blog!

A home for nerds

I am a confirmed nerd. The very name of my blog asserts that fact. And everyone knows that nerds LOVE the internet. They can connect with other nerds, create nerdy things and just be themselves. So out of all the websites, which is the best one for nerds?

Of course, I used nerds in the absolute COOLEST sense. I have simply observed many nerds finding homes on the internet, and have joined them.*
Well, in my opinion, the winner is Youtube. Tumblr might have nerdy elements, but it's so full of hipsters and quotes about romance to be truly nerdy. Facebook has everyone, plus all your non-nerdy friends can see when you do embarrasingly nerdy things. Twitter is too full of oversharing B-list celebrities. What does that leave? Well, MySpace... no I kid. No one cares about MySpace anymore.

Youtube! Youtube is the home of nerds. Before you protest, here are my reasons.

1. Tutorials. Yeah, beautiful people watch hair and makeup tutorials, sure, but they are NERDY people who can be bothered sitting through ten minutes to LEARN. Also, the hair and makeup is far outweighed by the 'How to be awesome', 'How to integrate an inverse trigonometric function' and 'How to solve a Rubik's cube'.
2. TV Shows. If you care that much about a TV show to want to either a) catch up on it online or b) get it sooner than everyone else in Australia, you are being an Internet nerd.
3. Things like this. This is Pride and Prejudice done in a video blog from the perspective of Lizzie Bennet. Absolutely brilliant, hilarious, and featuring the witty, incredulous line from Mr Darcy 'These people are enjoying popular music unironically!' Fantastic!

I could go on about the nerdy value of Youtube for many more points but my subscription box is calling.

*Nerdfighters! If you don't know what this means, shame on you. Now google it.