Was University Worth it?

When I joined university nine years ago, I was so excited about my future. Like many people out there, university was what I’d worked my whole towards; it was the only reason I’d slaved away at my homework and extracurricular activities since the age of ten.

In my mind, University was where I would truly find myself; where I would fall in love, make lifelong friends, discover my career prospects and transition from sheltered-child to respectable and valuable adult.

Except I didn’t meet anyone romantically (in fact, I barely met anyone), I graduated with zero career guidance or prospects and I came out feeling more lost and confused than before I went in.

So, here’s the big question everyone wants to know the answer to: was university worth it?

From a humanity student’s perspective, this hasn’t been the easiest question to answer. I mulled over it a lot in December 2018 as I was cleaning up spilt milk from yet another daily milk explosion at the supermarket I worked in; the same supermarket chain I worked in at age eighteen, eight years before I accumulated over £30K worth of debt.

I’m aware of how lucky I am. I not only attended university in the UK where the fees are less extortionate but also in the years before the UK tuition fees…