Gen Z Student: Here's my advice to anyone starting their first few weeks of college

The lecture hall is where they tell you what they expect to see in your assignments and exams. Anyone that does well, is going to class. I’m not going to pretend I never missed a class in my time

Jane Cowan: "Your first few weeks of college will be daunting. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It means you’re probably going through a period of growth and learning." Picture: Moya Nolan.

Today is my last first day of school, as I write. In other words, I’ve started my final year of college. And while I’m feeling a little nostalgic about the fact that I’m coming to the end of my time in education (it’ll be a few years before I have the stomach for postgraduate study), I’m mainly excited to be nearly finished.

The barrage of enthusiastic first years scuttling around campus, using Google Maps to find their way to the engineering building, makes me feel like I’m a little too old to be here.