Countdown to Christmas
Well it’s officially the Christmas holidays- hooray! That being said, I haven’t managed to get home yet because I’m staying an extra week to get an essay done before I give up for Christmas. It’s feeling pretty bleak at the moment because I’m in my student house alone and am battling with a constant fear […]
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 Leicester? Let’s take a look, shall we? I’ve sat quite a few different exams here, and […]
Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Paranormal Activity
One of the hermetic joys about English Literature is that if you procrastinate inside the subject, you can still regard it as studying. An author may not be directly relevant to your exam or your essay, but now you know that they were alive and what they were writing and you’re able to re-shuffle your entire […]
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 semester and it ain’t pretty, much like the great man himself. First deadline is the Special Subject essay, 5000 words, on […]
Managing 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! So, all that’s left of my degree now is 11 days of revision and one three-hour […]
Films for Thought: Cinema Paradiso
I’ve mentioned before that a film can be an excellent aid to visualisation and that, since I’d much rather watch a film than revise, my visualisation abilties have reached a level only slightly below ‘Superhuman’ but slightly above ‘Batman’. Here I’ll post some brief opinions on a selection of films I’ve watched whilst in Italy […]
A-Level Aftermath: Blazing Saddles
Jennifer wished you good luck, now I’m here to see how the dust has settled. The clear place to start is with congratulations to all those of you who are now going to university in the autumn. You’ve reached the top of the ladder and discovered the bottom of a newer, better ladder with platinum-coated […]
Summer Days: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Suddenly we’ve been hit by some kind of strange weather, similar to winter except, like, the opposite if that’s possible? It’s really strange and hard to describe. It’s like if cold were upside down, you know? The kind of weather where you might be able to actually go outside only wearing a t-shirt. Special reports […]
Ways around Revision: Excalibur
When you’re in a revision period, it’s tempting to try and find ways of making your downtime somehow aid the revision effort. And by far and away the best activity is to find movies which relate to the course. A movie gives you visualisation of the stuff you’ve been reading about, and fetters together quotations […]
Working from home
I have mentioned in a previous post I struggle to concentrate on work when I’m anywhere but the library. As a result the holidays pose a bit of problem for me. Some of my friends combat their inability to work at home by simply remaining in Leicester and spending five weeks in self-imposed isolation with […]
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