At 18 years old you don’t exactly have a concrete plan as to what colour socks you’re going to wear let alone be able to decide the college course and career path you want to take! The Liberal Arts degree in Mary I was the most appealing one to me, especially as the prospectus had shiny Pictures! My expectations of what college life was going to entail were hazy to say the least, but reality soon hit me as I joined hundreds of other blank confused faces in the queue on Registration day. Four Years on I made it through how, I ask myself that question every day, what I got from my four years in Mary I? That’s easy, a life time of experience, some great memories and some firm friends for life. For first year I studied Media Communications, Geography, Psychology, and English Literature. I kept on Media and English to Degree and never looked back. The theory part of Media was a bit daunting for first year but once you hit the practical side of it there’s no stopping you. The difference that third year made to my view on college and my life in general is hard to put into words, as it was so valuable to me in many ways. Third year is spent off campus it gives Students the opportunity to really find their strong points and even what they might want to do in the future, I spent half the year on campus as Co-ordinator for the Lip and then spent the second semester studying abroad, which is one experience I highly recommend. 12 months on from graduating I am now working as a full time radio presenter on Spin South West five nights a week, which I still find hard to believe but going to a college like Mary I made me realise that anything is possible once you got yourself out there.. Or how big your bribe is! Either way remember "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." Antoinette (Anto)