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1. 1.All your friends go off in every different direction.
2. Real life is far more expensive than you had imagined and you dream of the days of your student loan.
3. You may end up back living with your parents.
4. Receiving payment letters from student finance and not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
5. The pressure of feeling like you should have your shit together because it looks like everyone around you has their shit together.
6. You move somewhere new and try to persuade all of your friends to move too.
7. The expectation that you will fall into a job.
8. It is no longer acceptable to get drunk on a Tuesday night.
9. ...or still doing it and having many, many regrets.
10. Graduate schemes or jobs are nowhere near as glamorous as you had hoped.
11. You still find yourself living in a student-ish house eating beans on toast for dinner.
12. You may end up living with randomers.
13. When/If you do eventually get a job and you start earning it's amazing!
14. You become a weekend warrior.
15. You become the person you vowed to never become.
16. At least there's no more exams, coursework, dissertations or deadlines.
17. BUT on a positive note...The new chapter of your life is just beginning.
18. Overall, it’s a whole rollercoaster of emotions, sometimes loneliness and definite uncertainty..but, at least we're all in this together!
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