{"id":1637,"date":"2015-03-27T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/abhishek14\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-03-27T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:58:38","slug":"adultification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/03\/27\/adultification\/","title":{"rendered":"Adultification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why growing up can be tough, and why you\u2019re still allowed to make up words.<\/em><\/p>\n

School life tends to be very linear. You wake up begrudgingly at a set time every weekday; you spend most of the day studying and hanging out with friends; you get home sometime in the evening and eat\/do homework\/relax to varying degrees; you fall asleep at a time that\u2019s socially acceptable; you repeat. And it continues like this, more or less, from the age of 5 till you\u2019re 18. Come to university, and it\u2019s a whole new ball game.<\/p>\n

Suddenly your days are irregular<\/em>. And non-linearity rules (unless you\u2019re solving differential equations, in which case I wish you the best of luck). You’ve still got lectures and tutorials to attend but aside from those, how you choose to spend your time here is completely up to you! No teachers running behind you to make sure you\u2019re you’ve got your homework. No parents to make sure you\u2019re eating properly or check that you\u2019re not going to bed at ungodly hours. Freedom!<\/p>\n

But with all this excitement comes responsibility. Now this would be the perfect moment to deliver a Spider-Man monologue, but all I\u2019m saying is that people expect<\/em> you to manage yourself. This includes your studies, your interests, your free time, and your general well-being. And that\u2019s actually a really big deal.<\/p>\n

Your alarm didn’t ring and you missed morning lectures? It\u2019s down to you to find the time to catch up otherwise you\u2019re just setting yourself up for more work come revision time.<\/p>\n

You forgot to go out and buy groceries over the weekend? Well, now you might end up spending a lot more for dinner than you bargained for. (Or you gloriously exclaim once you realise the fact that there\u2019s a Sainsbury’s right around the corner that\u2019s open till midnight and you’ve still got time to make some teriyaki chicken. Yeah, it\u2019s the little things that bring joy to my life.)<\/p>\n

Hopefully, you’re not reading this as some sort\u00a0of ominous warning about the trials and tribulations of university life. It\u2019s honestly not too difficult once you get into the rhythm of living here. It’s just that growing up, part of me thought I\u2019d hit 18 and bang<\/em>: I\u2019d be an adult with a perfect understanding of how to live life. Turns out, that\u2019s not really the case. To be honest, the older I get the more I realise that \u2018getting it all figured out\u2019 doesn’t really mean anything. You’re still allowed to have conversations about the most random\u00a0of things like how being ‘up for something’ and ‘down for something’ mean the exact same thing (it’s weird right?), complain about how adult stuff is always too confusing, and laugh at corny puns (oh, you haven’t learned the meaning of punny<\/em> until you come to university). Everyone just does their best to cope with what they\u2019re doing and, for the most part, that\u2019s good enough!<\/p>\n

One of the fun\u00a0things about living right\u00a0in the middle of London is that there\u2019s always something to distract me when I enter my hyper-contemplative philosophical mode. Last weekend, I had a whole lot of fun eating at Bar Shu, a Chinese restaurant specialising in Sichuan cuisine. As you may expect, they really do love their chillies and peppercorns. Here\u2019s the chicken with dried chillies:<\/p>\n

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After viewing the photo you may wonder why it wasn’t named dried chillies with chicken; to cut a long story short, you\u2019re not actually meant to eat all the chillies and my dad found this out the hard way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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