[Samuel.]

I'm Sam (no one really calls me Samuel unfortunately ), 21 y/o from Haywards Heath, studying Creative Music Technology in Doncaster at degree level.

I have aspirations of being a successful hip hop artist, but more realistically I plan on teaching English in South Korea when I finish uni, and potentially travel Asia doing the same. Would like to work in the video game industry at some point, but the long hours and little pay is the big put off.

For most of my life up until uni, I was mostly a quiet loner with very little confidence. I was on anti-depressants as a 13/14 y/o, borderline suicidal during parts of my teens. I didn't have a hard life, albeit some bullying at school (nothing unordinary), I just wasn't happy. After dropping out of Sixth Form at 17, I spent the next year and a half basically sitting in my room, not knowing what on earth I wanted to do in life. Wasn't until I was 19 I realised music was for me, and I decided to do CMT on a fast track course at college.

A year later, after cramming a year's work into the final month of college, I was in Donny. Since then, I feel like a completely different person confidence-wise. The last year has easily been the best of my life and I'm happier than ever.

I've never met my dad, having left my mum before I was born claiming not to be the father. Part of me is glad, as I think growing up with just my mum has shaped me into a better person, and it drives me onto wanting to be successful even more. Still not sure if I want to get in contact with him, but I reckon I will at some point, even just to see what he looks like.

So yeah