Fuel - sunburn (accoustic version)
When I was at university, I think it's fair to say that I did not use my time incredibly productively; by the time I completed my degree I had a far more thorough knowledge of how to get wasted than my chosen subject.

With one exception.

During my first year - somewhat on a whim - I signed up to do a first jump course with the skydive club. Notingham university is 12 miles away from the busiest dropzone in the UK: BPS Langar.

I signed up for the RAPS course, which involves a day of ground training, then beginning with static-line jumps, culminating in learning how to freefall from the full altitude of 13,500 feet.

For some reason, this song (and a few others, though this is the most prominent) evokes for me the feeling of rising at 6:30am (outrageously early for a student on a Saturday) to get in a car and go to the dropzone, generally in a state of pants-wetting terror.

Since learning to skydive, I have made some amazing jumps in some amazing places. I have met a bunch of the craziest, most outgoing and genuine people possible. I have had some incredible experiences - there have been a couple of bad moments too - and made some (hopefully) lifelong friendships.

This song was one of a dozen or half a dozen that I'd listen to whilst waiting to be picked up to go jumping, and whenever I hear it - which is seldom, to be fair - it takes me right back to the most worthwhile decision I made whilst at University.

"Oh let the sun fall down on me...."
(anvil, Mon 1 Feb 2010, 21:56, 1 reply)

Nice one!
I'm currently doing my AFF course at Hib, and you're absolutely right about skydiving folk - awesome bunch of people.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 14:28, closed)