If you think students spend all their spare time avoiding studying, going out with their mates and having a good time then you'd be right. Well our student bloggers do anyway. While they assure us they don't slack on the study, they've got a lot to answer for when it comes to enjoying themselves while volunteering.

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Monday Aug 01, 2011

And it's all over.

Well, my run at University appears to be over. With a degree under my belt and a smile on my face, I've willingly attempted to enter the world of work - and you guessed it, I've not exactly succeeded.

 I have however secured a summer internship as a campaigns assistant with a national charity based in West Yorkshire, and I am absolutely loving the experience.

But enough of that, one of the sad parts about leaving uni (other than leaving student discounts and nights out) has definitely been saying goodbye to the Bookends team. I have to admit, I miss the shop already! And I definitely miss dreaming up ways to market the shop around campus, and chilling out on a shift. Bookends has given me great experience of working in a not for profit environment which I know I will find useful in future years. More than that though, it's given me a chance to develop some leadership skills, test out my creativity, and of course make friends I'll never forget.

So is this the end for me and Bookends? Well, I doubt it. I'm a bit of a book nerd to my core, so I'm sure I will be back meddling in the shop whenever I visit Aberdeen. Nevertheless, I can't help but feel a little strange when I realise that a whole host of new volunteers will be in charge come September. Hopefully they can expand upon everything that's been done so far and make the shop a prominent fundraising force for Aberdeen Students' Charities Campaign. I'm pretty sure that Bookends is going to survive just fine without me anyway.

For anyone who reads the nonsense I spurt out, I hope you try to change the world too - one little bit at a time. Fi.

Posted by Fiona ( 8:15 PM )
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