Explaining a joke totally makes it funnier.
I am not deleting this site, and I am not going back to university. For those of you with a calendar, you may notice that yesterday was the first of April, also known as April Fool’s Day, and everything I wrote in this post was a joke. I mean none of it.
There were a few paragraphs and phrases included that I thought would make clear the fact that the entire post was a prank. In the spirit of full disclosure, here they are, with my explanations:
It’s not going to be easy. I don’t want to write off this entire year, so I’ll be working through the Summer to get as much of the theory done as possible. Obviously I can’t get the practicals done, as they’re a group thing, but thankfully they’re such a small part of the course that it doesn’t matter. Hooray!
I thought it would be a bit obvious that since the Spring term has just ceased in most universities, I would need to catch up on two terms’ work in a summer. A nigh-impossible task, and one that a university would not likely sanction. I also included a dig at the very small amount of practical work involved in the filmmaking* course at Falmouth University. Both of those were probably a little too obtuse to classify as clues to most of my readers.
There aren’t any dorm rooms left, so I’m having to share one with a foreign exchange student. He’s from France or something. I hope he’s fun!
I thought the ridiculousness of me having to share a dorm room, and the bad luck of sharing with a smelly Frenchmen(no disrespect to these noble creatures) would strike as too implausible too be true. Apparently, this added detail proved to have the opposite effect, causing the whole thing to be more believable to some readers. Oops!
but that’s how the world works these days, especially today
This was a little hint to readers to think about the date. Didn’t work.
Knowledge isn’t something you can just learn, it has to be worked for in boring institutions where opinions are forced on you and your schedule is kept rigid… Needless to say, I’ll be shutting this place down. I won’t have time to update it while I’m down there, what with all the toil I’ll have to do to reach the top of an arbitrary grading system.
This is the exact opposite of what I believe, something I had thought clearly highlighted by my pejorative remarks towards the very place I was to return to next day. I’m not exactly saying nice things about Uni, am I?
always remember - your dreams are too big to roam free
Again, the opposite of what I think, something highlighted in the post immediately below the one I’m talking about. I know I can be contradictory, but not that much, surely?
Obviously, I completely misjudged this whole thing. I again want to make it clear that I am not going back to university, and I most likely never will. I’m going to outline my reasons for that choice in a separate post.
Next April 1st, I’ll probably just replace the background with bunnies or something. Yeah.