Well the clock struck 09:00 hours on the 20th of December and around 66000 students across NSW logged into the UAC website and found out their UAI's.
There I sat on my bed, laptop infront of me and after failing to log in several times (not because it was busy but because i was stupid enough to not read the fine print on what to do with your student number to make it a uac number) i finally got through the login process.
The little blue box turned grey and stated it was processing my login...
drums, or timpani's (i wasn't concentrating on what sound effects my subconcious was creating to make my mundane life more interesting for itself), were rolling in my head. I had one set of fingers was crossed and my other hand touching my bedside table (touch wood cause i had begun to doubt myself vocally) as my results were queryed and loaded.
What took only seconds, in my mind, took an minute or two (probably because my subconcious was still trying to make mundane old me interesting to itself) as my school year flashed before my eyes, all the work (and in some cases lack there of) the time (used and wasted) and the effort (sometimes to no avail) all synthesised into a montage of images until it all became a blur of white light...
the header for the screen popped up and the boarder as with all the rest of the items on the page, in chronological order until, anticlimatically, my UAI popped up on screen...
79.45
I stared at it for a moment, weighing up if I was pleased or not... after a second or two my mind decided on happy and i cracked a smile, in my solitude and thought it was going to be a good day. I wasn't expecting a 90 after seeing my HSC marks the day before, but a 79.45 was a fair bit above my expectations and I was quite stoked.
Ok so a while back i would have liked to get 85, but no matter, I have what I have.
Some higher being or force chose to give me lemons or some other not so great comodity (like dirt), and I'm going to make the best lemonade (or bricks) that I know how :)
the future looks uncertain but i can finally lay this chapter of my life to rest and be glad that I didn't totally bomb out.
to all my friends who got their UAI's, i hope you did as well as you expected and if you didn't (and at the risk of sounding cliche) take my advice...
its not the end of the world and you just have to make the best of what you got. Keep trying and you can get anywhere.
I may not have gotten a good UMAT score, or an incredibly high UAI, but i (in the words of my primary school principal Mr. Huckabee) "I did my PB and thats what matters" and now, although my goal is a bit further away, I'm going to work towards being a doctor... or a chef... or an artist... haven't decided which one yet, but it'll be one
-Charles
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