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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Tuesday Jul 06, 2010

End of the line...

I've finished my degree, and while on the plus side this means that I have actually completed something, it also means that I am no longer a 'student volunteer', and am now officially unemployed.

I should probably be using this final blog to enthuse over how volunteering has converted my CV from a withering runt to a protein guzzling body-fortress; landed me my dream graduate job; and solved various other niggling annoyances, such as intermittent back ache. I'm not going to do that, partly because it wouldn't be true.

Instead here are 5 things that made me laugh during the last 3 years:

1) My friend and co-host somehow getting then Business Minister Pat Mcfadden to agree to an on-air (and heated) discussion of agency workers' rights on Sheffield Live 93.2fm

2) Over 2 hours spent on very random changes to the volunteering committee's constitution: should SheffieldVolunteering be two words or one?

3) Introducing a guest on my radio show as 'a man', after forgetting his name entirely. (sorry to this man, whose name I have still forgotten)

4) Trying to stop laughing uncontrollably at numerous moments during every breakfast radio show I helped to present.

5) Refusing to correct a friend's notion that my name is Harris over the course of two years, only for it to come back to haunt me after being awarded a certificate by the Lord Mayor (for an event which my friend had organised) for one Harris Stevens.

Anyway, I can hear the jobcentreplus calling 'sign on, sign on' and perhaps I can stave it off no more!

H

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