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writes:I'm on a four-year course and due to graduate uni next year. Before I came to university, my life was completely different (single mother with abusive boyfriends, often had nowhere to stay, no social life at home to speak of). This affected me when I got to uni, but this has ended up being the place where I grew up and actually started to live a normal life. First and second year were pretty up and down for me due to lack of money and having to juggle home problems with being a student, but thankfully the last year has been pretty good to me and I know final year is going to be amazing, though all too short I fear.I'm already starting to feel bad about leaving, though, even though I don't graduate for another year. I'm going down to London for the whole summer, as opposed to staying in my university city as I have for the past summer holidays, as I have some internships lined up. I want to settle in London after I graduate and I'm going to find work there, but I've spent so long at my university and settled in so much that it feels like home. Even just going away for the summer is depressing me, though realistically I wouldn't want to spend the holidays alone in my house either.I know graduating gets everyone down but it's not even for another year, and I'll stay in touch with all my good friends. It's just that I'm really attached to my university as a place, because it's the first place I've actually had a normal life and it has a beautiful campus. I feel like it's "home", because I could never call the place where I struggled to survive and went to school in home. But after I graduate, all my friends will be leaving too and there is no reason for me to come back, so how do I stop feeling like this? It's not such a great city that I want to work here afterwards, but I feel like it will break my heart when I go down to London. Advice, please? :)
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reader, anonymous, writes (26 June 2013): Believe me, everyone leaves Edinburgh after they finish their courses so you wont feel too bad for leaving!
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