English

My Canon of Literature

Posted by Holly in English on July 8, 2018

With the academic year reaching its end, I was thinking about where I was this time last year. I had just finished the last of my A Levels, revelling in the prospect of a glorious three-month-span of nothing, and brimming with nerves and excitement at the thought of starting university in September. Studying English would […]

Posted in Studying | Tagged Books, Charles Dickens, English, English Literature, George Orwell, Harper Lee, John Milton, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oliver Twist, Paradise Lost, Reading, Recommended Reading, The Aeneid, To Kill a Mockingbird, Virgil | Leave a response

The best books on Leicester’s English course

Posted by Molly in English on March 3, 2018

Its around the time when most student are beginning to think about what offers they are going to accept from universities. I wanted to reiterate why Uni of Leicester’s English BA course is so great, but instead of giving you a boring list of why I love it I thought I would just talk about […]

Posted in Essay, Reseach, Revision | Tagged Books, English, Frankenstein, jane eyre, Literature, Pride and Prejudice, White Teeth

What’s on for Leicester’s English students?

Posted by Laura M in English on October 17, 2015

Leicester’s Literary Festival aims to bring the best of literature to Leicester for one week only. It’s a week which is jam packed with exciting workshops and performances from the writers of today. There is such a diverse range of events to offer, so, whether you’re just interested in literature or study it, it’s a great […]

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English Students: What books to buy and where to buy them.

Posted by Laura M in English on September 28, 2015

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 have a very limited stock of the texts you need. Many will be forced to pay a hefty amount […]

Posted in Essay, Exams, Reseach, Revision, Studying, Uncategorized, Work | Tagged adam bede, Books, cheap, English, english society, jane eyre, noton anthology of petry, Old English, pamela, Reading, reading english, semester 1, student loan, summer reading, the english patient, the literary genre, the rainbow, virginia woolf, wide sargassso sea, year 1, year 2

Week one @TheRiverGroup

Posted by Laura M in English on August 4, 2015

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 internship in London. When I arrived at their offices, I was met by ads manager Mel […]

Posted in Career, City, Employment, Exams, Friends, Future, Graduation, Health, Internship, Leisure, News, Placement, Reseach, Studying, Volunteering, Work | Tagged Bus, editor, English, Facebook, followers, following, Food, graduate, health, Instagram, job, Leicester, likes, London, magazines, news, pinterest, popularity, press release, publisher, research, river group, rivergroup, sales, social media, Student, suit, team, train, Travel, tube, twitter, University, week one, Work Experience

The reality of a summer internship in London

Posted by Laura M in English on August 4, 2015

So, you’re one of the lucky ones to be successfully offered an Internship at one of the top company’s in London. Congratulations! It’s your chance to get some great experience in your field and prove your skills to the people that really matter. If you do well enough, maybe you’ll even get a job at […]

Posted in Career, City, Employment, Future, Internship, Placement, Stress, Studying, Volunteering, Work | Tagged Accommodation, ads, application, blog, Bus, Business, company, costs, editorial, English, intern, internship, London, publisher, rivergroup, sales, train, Travel, tube, Work Experience

Goodbye

Posted by victoria in English on July 28, 2015

Hello everyone 🙂 It’s time for me to say goodbye- I’ve graduated from Leicester and I have a BA under my belt, so no more student blogging for me! (Probably). I will be staying on at Leicester studying an MA in Modern Literature and I found out last week that I’ve been awarded a scholarship […]

Posted in Future | Tagged BA, English, Leicester, MA, Modern Literature, Postgrad, Undergrad, University of Leicester

Graduation!

Posted by victoria in English on July 21, 2015

Hello everyone- I graduated! The whole end goal of my time at Leicester, and my entire education really, and I’ve done it! As you can tell from both the quick succession of exclamations and my triumphant pose, I’m really happy to have completed my degree. Let me tell you about the day… My ceremony was […]

Posted in Graduation | Tagged Ceremony, De Montfort Hall, Degree, English, Gown, Graduation, University, University of Leicester

My first ‘seen’ exam

Posted by victoria in English on January 22, 2015

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 first time I’ve ever done an exam like that. What does it mean? It means you […]

Posted in Exams | Tagged English, Exam, Leicester, Literature

Hello 2015

Posted by victoria in English on December 31, 2014

I’m very nervous to greet 2015, because it means that it’s the start of the year in which I graduate and have to move on. It’s the last year of being in education, and that’s a really scary thought because I have no idea what I want to do next! So it’s going to be […]

Posted in Future | Tagged 2015, English, Leicester, Literature, New Year, Semester