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Gone off track

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I've been doing really badly since I found out that funding has been cut for my social work course- meaning that the MA I've been planning on doing for the past two years is no longer available to me, because I'm not the standard middle class kid (I went on a rant about it a couple of weeks back: measureformeasurelife.blogs....

If you can't tell I'm pretty angry, because I'm an estranged/independent student and don't have 5K (hahaha) to spend on a course that is supposed to be available to all who pass the universities tests/interviews- now I have no idea what to do with my life. Existential crisis or what?!

My point is that it's put me off doing much at all. So I've been doing running to my own music and getting through two or three songs at a time, rather than following the podcasts. To be honest I don't like the podcast music that much- I know I need someone/thing to tell me to run/slow down but I'm just unimpressed by the same ol' same ol'...

Figured this is the right place to come to as I'm sure there's been moments for a few of you, yourselves. I guess you can tell I've been disheartened by the whole thing and I'm sorry for being so moany!

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