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Okay hi, So University is a really exciting time in life. There are so many new things to do, new people to meet, and new people to see. It suddenly seems that there is loads more things you could be doing with your life. But there are things you have to leave behind as well. […]
Exams Are Heating Up
Okay hi, So I had this thing where when I was doing my A-levels where I would stalk the website of both my firm and insurance choice Universities as a procrastination technique to ‘psych myself up for my revision’. So if that’s what you’re doing right now. It doesn’t work. Go and do some work […]
Christmas Dinner
Okay hi So it’s finally here… the last week of term is upon us, and although the workload hasn’t stopped or anything like that, this time of year does lend itself to a certain degree of relaxation (leading to this week being known as ‘chill-out week’ among my group of friends). All over campus and […]
Balls
Okay hi. So there’s this weird tradition among societies at university, which I’ve not seen in any other part of life: the annual ball. Now I know that lots of people have prom, or something similar, when they leave school, but I never did. And I know a few different things in adult life might […]
Tour Guides
Okay hi. So one great thing about university is the opportunities to develop your ‘life skills’ in various ways. I know that sounds really tedious, and it probably isn’t even the correct phrasing so let me elaborate. Basically, there’s a whole list of skills and traits that employers practically always look for in a potential […]
Midterms
Okay hi. So one of the big differences between university and school/college is that at university we get midterms. These are, as the name suggests, exams halfway through the first term which contribute towards your module grade. Basically, you get a period of about 3 weeks where you have one or two exams a week. […]
Lab Day
Okay hi. In second year here, we have 3 six-hour long practical lab sessions every fortnight. This sounds like a lot (and, admittedly during some of the slower experiments, it can feel like it too) but actually a lot of the time, it’s actually not too bad. Like because a lot of time is spent […]
A Trip Home
Okay hi. So it’s getting close to being a halfway through the term now, and it’s about the kind of time that people might spend a bit of time at home, or indeed have the family come visit them. I generally find that if people do see their family, it comes around this time of […]
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