At the time that I finished high school, I jumped straight into university without a break. So I was very young while completing my first degree which was a bachelor of arts. Many of the other students were about the same ages as me, or slightly older having taken a year or two off to travel, but there was also the odd mature aged student as well. Some were coming back to study after a long stint in the workforce, while others seemed to be what I now call ‘perpetual students’. It was taking them 6-7 years, for instance, to complete their part time degrees, or they were up to their second or third degree and still had a zest for learning. I looked at these people with mixed disapproval and admiration. Why were they still at uni? Were they becoming super intelligent freaks or were they just bumming around?
It’s weird, but even after my second, third, fourth return to university I never saw myself becoming one of these people. Presently I’m studying dry needling
courses. Australia is one of the best places in the world to get an education and the possibilities are endless. How can I stop adding to my wealth of knowledge when there is just so much out there to learn! Dry needling is just one of many fascinating topics of study. I’m learning how to use filament needles to treat muscle pain and dysfunction for conditions of mobility and sports injuries. Where I live in Melbourne, dry needling courses can compliment a degree in osteopathy, physiotherapy and many related fields. They’re also fully accredited so you’ve got the option of opening your own practice when you finish your studies … but I still don’t know when that will be. People may look down their noses at me, but I’m starting to accept my fate as the eternal student.