just before I left university, a lecturer had us all write a letter to ourselves that she would post a year later. It was to contain all the things you hoped and wished for, in the coming year, all your thoughts , dreams and ambitions. It was a marvellous way of getting us to focus on what we had achieved and had still to achieve, and what the point of the previous years of books and poverty had been about. I had completely forgotten this until the letter turned up, a year later.It was wonderful to reflect on what I'd accomplished and make better plans for the things I still had to do and to remember who I was then and now. I wish I could thank her, it was one of the best things anyone has ever done for me.