Winning

Recently I got to thinking about the things I've achieved since I've been at Edinburgh University. Obviously my big one is co-founding Express LD, something that if you saw this post you'll know I'm incredibly proud of! And what if we eventually become a registered charity!? That would be ridiculously awesome. 
But enough about me, I'm almost overwhelmed by some of the things I've seen my friends and colleagues achieve in the last few years, so much so that I've decided they need shouting about. 

• Cesca started her own business Vintage Rings and Things selling beautiful vintage jewellery.
• Ellen started her blog Hand Drawn Heart and in less than a year got invited as a member of the press to cover the Manchester Fashion Show!
• My cousin Ben started working at Aldi after getting onto what might be the most competitive graduate scheme in the country. 
• Vicki started an engineering placement at none other than Jaguar Land Rover!
• Danielle became co-owner of Joze School of Dance.
• Rob near single handedly converted 4 bare walls into a beautiful flat for two. 
• Chris got promoted to Assistant Manager at Revolution Edinburgh and Rosie got made Duty Manager at the Meadows Hotel.
• My sister Georgia got accepted and started at Cardiff University, Mia got accepted to study law at Copenhagen and Tom got accepted to do a PGCE at Leeds.  
• Jacky founded the only student Dyslexia Society in the country at Edinburgh University.
• And on a different but equally amazing note Dom and Vicki bought their first house only a few days ago and in May last year Daniel and Amulree got married! 

That's not even close to everyone, I could honestly keep going. Literally the only point to this list is that I'm so proud of my friends and just amazed at what we're all doing, have done and are yet to do. I'm going to look back at this when I'm knee deep in dissertation and verge of tears for some inspiration and a dose of 'go get 'em' attitude. At the very least maybe I'll think 'do you know what, if all these people can do all these things, then I can damn well graduate'. 
And because I don't like doing posts without pictures here's some thrown together very quickly that are hopefully relevant enough to illustrate my point..