Goodbye (Jeremy)

Well, my second year of University has started today and so I guess it’s as good a day as any to finally kiss the First-Year Blog goodbye. We have actually moved on to quite literally greener pastures (visit the site, you’ll see what I mean) at Back For Seconds, to be found at http://transition-blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/ and hopefully to be linked back to this site. It’s been fun writing some completely egotistical self-obsessed pieces about my life over 2006 and I hope everyone will keep visiting our Sloppy Seconds page this year for more of the same. In Dame Edna style, I’d like to finish off with a song, to regale the new first-years with tales of University.

Welcome here young JAFFY, and please make yourself at home
Uni is an open zoo, and it’s all yours to roam
You’ll meet lots of people, so try not to act the fool
Even though you know each other all from Private School

The Engineers stick to a man, and treat you like a brother
They spend their spare time chugging cans, and shagging with each other
Hugging with your fellow mate, and yelling themselves hoarse
Imagine what would happen if a girl was in their course

Please avoid the Liberal club, they’re facists in disguise
People have turned racist just by looking at their eyes
And please avoid the socialists just like a second wife
Unless of course you do decide that posters are your life

The artsy-fartsy people, well now they have time to spare
Going, buying fairtrade, and then dreadlocking their hair
They “study” hard for three years, and then after that they’re gone
But please don’t try to miss them, they’ll be back before too long

If the Uni bought a lion, then the scientists would stroke it
These enterprising chaps belive that if it grows, then smoke it
The international students are the opposite to these
Neglected by the locals, they fulfill each others’ needs.

So welcome to Uni for the next three to four years
Please listen not just to your liver but also your ears
And my very own tip, for those who are in strife?
Try to enjoy your study. You’re working all your life!

jez.

EDITORIAL RIGHT OF REPLY:

The editors note this to be Jeremy’s vision

And encourage you to reach your own decision

On which clubs to join, which folks to befriend

And in whose company these years you”ll spend