If you are feeling blue about leaving KCL for good this year, do yourself a favour and save the sobbing for now. Here’s five reasons to be smug about leaving university.

No more bizarre geography

Dear friend, the outside world is full of wonders. While you polish your dissertation, take a break and recall a land where all ground floors are numbered appropriately and lifts arrive more often than blue moons.

Had Bin Laden hid in Strand’s Norfolk building and left directions, he would be alive today. Cue dozens of desperate CIA agents lost all about the Terrace and inevitably moving on to pounding back fireballs at the Waterfront.

In the real world separate ‘buildings’ are detached from one another and you can easily navigate in between without having to uncover abandoned Edwardian catacombs. This world is now within your grasp.

No more exams

Speaking of your dissertation, remember that once you leave university, your self-worth will no longer hinge on a glorified report card your professor might have written when they were bored out of their mind, drunk off of their face or understandably and most probably both.

Feel free to book a holiday over Christmas, Easter, hell over the whole summer! No longer will King’s be able to keep you waiting around until it pulls exam dates out of its nether regions about a month in advance.

You would think there would be a better way to evaluate your work as a twenty-year-old than your year 8 book report. Once you are out of Uni, there will be.

No more holidays

Holidays might seem like a good idea, but with last minute exams and the trials of finding a flat in London most KCL students spend their summers swaying between stress and poverty. No period shouldn’t really qualify as a break if you are stuck paying ridiculous rent for an apartment, when you would rather be home anyway.

God forbid you happen to be in a relationship with someone over a holiday! There is something about long distance that sticks in the throat.

You might have to go through it outside of Uni of course, but never so often for so very long. Plus by then you will actually be able to afford leaving those embarrassing overseas voice messages.

Emma Watson is graduating

Celebrities are always better people than regular folk… except when they aren’t. Emma Watson is though, and there were times when, had you met her, you could have bonded over thrilling tales of Uni life.

While she stayed in Oxford it was not unthinkable to run into her at an exchange or a mixer or one of those society things you’d ignore emails about, where somebody would go to another college and mingle.

She is graduating this May, so your brilliant and completely non-stalkery strategy is to become redundant. You might as well up and graduate as well.

No more of ‘that guy’

You might have met lifelong friends at King’s. You should have. There are some pretty cool people.

But let’s face it, not everybody is everyone’s cup of tea. There will always be somebody you want to strangle with a road sign every time they open their mouth.

They always misquote the one book you actually read and brush off your corrections as a ‘matter of interpretation’. You get to get away from him now. Because he is probably doing a Masters in the Philosophy of Wood Carving and Pointless Waistcoats and moving on to a steady job in the Rodeo Clown industry.

In summation there will be a time to miss university, but do not get too nostalgic. You don’t have to grow up, but you can’t stay in debt forever.