Frightening Finals
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been at Leicester for nearly three years. I know it sounds like a cliché but it’s gone so fast! Today marks three weeks until my last exam. That will be the last assessed...
View ArticleManaging Revision
Last week I handed in my last ever undergraduate essay at the University of Leicester. It was exciting, terrifying, and a bit sad all at the same time – that’s a lot of emotion for an essay to produce!...
View ArticleErasmus Exams: Revenge of the Nerds
The time of year is currently that of the humble exam. For a more detailed explanation of the way English students are assessed on an Erasmus year in Italy, please see my previous posts here and also...
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Festive Montage: Rocky Balboa
What work does a final year English student have to do over the Christmas holidays? Enough to require Rocky montage levels of efficiency, that’s for sure. I’ve achieved such a speed several times this...
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New Year’s Novelties: Sunshine
New Year’s resolution: fireworks. That is all. Because I consider myself quite the expert on self-improving other people, I’ve compiled a list here of five suggestions for Leicester students who want...
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Victorian to Modern: The Importance of Being Earnest
It had to happen some day. The Victorians had to shake off the shackles of respectability and give in to the social forces of modernity. They had to cast away their inhibitions and go skinny-dipping,...
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Easter Exploits: Night of the Lepus
I always post the workload I’m dealing with on here in the holiday weeks. I like to think it balances out the fact that most of my regular posts seem to obfuscate rather than explicate the day-to-day...
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Looking Back at Exams: The Karate Kid
Now that I’ve sat my last exam, I’m in a position to look back and survey the damage. This one’s going out to all you incoming students: what is the nature of the English exam at the University of...
View ArticleMy first ‘seen’ exam
Yesterday morning I sat my first exam in a year and a half (my year abroad last year was all assessed by essay) and it was a gruelling three hours long. Not only that, it was also ‘seen’, which is the...
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Goat on Campus
As you can see from the other blog posts, everyone is working hard preparing for exams and getting deadlines done at the moment. The library is packed and it’s not an uncommon sight to see someone...
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Week one @TheRiverGroup
So, that’s week one of my summer Internship done – and, it’s been a busy week! Situated at the end of Oxford Street and the opening to Hyde Park makes The River Group the perfect location for my first...
View ArticleEnglish Students: What books to buy and where to buy them.
If you’re an English student, you’ll have been given a very long list of books that need to be studied this semester. However, if you’re a first year student, you’ll soon realise that the library will...
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Running away to Greece for a while
After a hectic and laborious semester, I’ve left the books and essays behind to go back to visit my second home – Greece. It couldn’t be any more different than the busy paths of campus and overload of...
View ArticleThis Time Last Year
Recently I’ve been feeling very sad about the fact that I’m no longer on my year abroad. Especially with all my deadlines and assignments coming up. I’ve been thinking about all my adventures last year...
View ArticleFinal April
So this year is my final year at the University of Leicester, and I will be taking my final exams (at least for this degree) in May and after that, I’ll be going back to London. And it’s just hit me...
View ArticleApril’s Reflections, May’s Projection
So today is the last day of April, and I did not do everything I said I was going to do this in my Final April blog post. I still have not been to the Cathedral or to the Space Centre yet. So I will...
View ArticleExams are Coming
I have finally handed in my dissertation and of course posted a dissertation hand-in photo on Facebook to let the whole world know. However, there is still the issue of exams. After handing in my...
View ArticleSemester One Roundup
As we approach exam period, I wanted to talk about my first semester of 3rd year and most importantly the modules I took this term and how I found them. The good thing about this semester was that I...
View ArticleMy Goals for 2018
I don’t really go along with the whole ‘new year, new me’ rubbish, if you want to change something then there is no point waiting in my opinion. However, this year I decided to make the most of the new...
View ArticleCreating the perfect revision playlist
Every year I kick off my revision by making a humongous timeline of tasks and of course the yearly revision playlist. I thought I’d go through what makes the perfect revision playlist from the...
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