I chat all things University, the highs, the lows, the good, the bad and obviously the slightly ugly singing while sat on the bathroom floor of Pop World with some nugs in one hand and hash browns in another. You’re welcome.
That’s right ya girl has graduated… again. It was my Gradu-bacon yesterday, when I received my Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Leicester! Not quite sure where those twelve months went, but I certainly have learnt and written more in a year than I have in a long time. I really enjoyed my […]
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After being in education for seventeen years, it was daunting not knowing what the next step was after graduating from my Bachelor’s degree in English. I got my GCSE’s, A-Levels, BA degree; I’d got the set of qualifications my teachers had always encouraged me to get. But, then what? Nobody at the University of York […]
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It’s officially a year since I packed up my cosy student room in York, crammed it into my Mini and entered the real, adult world. I had no job, no income, and no plans bar a handful of fun things with friends and family that was only going to drain the last dregs of my […]
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The final weeks at uni are filled with a lot of ‘A Thousand Miles’ “I need you and I miss you” meme-able moments. Especially at dissertation hand in – still one of the best days & nights EVER – and my final few days in York including Summer Ball, for a tipsy night with my […]
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So kids it’s official… I’m a graduate. AGH. I still don’t believe it, mainly because I feel way too young to be a graduate and have my life together. Can I just rewind to the gin & lemonade and dancing on the tables in Fibbers pls?? Graduation was such a good end to my time […]
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No matter how hard we try to avoid it – undertaking several degrees, gap yahs, and “I’m finding myself holidays” – real life comes round to us all in the end. Great. I was very aware of the fact that real life had begun and I had nada going on, I was muddling through and […]
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University brought so many amazing things into my life, as well as hangovers, many an existential crisis and my awareness of the price of food. It also brought some other lil things, like friends, parties, mems for life and sadly brain fog & its gal pal anxiety. I’d never really had anxiety beforehand, not like I’d […]
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I haven’t got round to making posts about all the ass-kicking lil books & plays that I love, so I’m gonna start with a list of lit from my degree that I actually enjoyed and would recommend reading at some point in your life. I read a lot of classics and a lot of obscure lit […]
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As I sit in a cafe having a cup of tea while writing my final period module essay, I am starting to feel slightly more at ease with things than I have in months. To say these first three months of the year have been stressful would be a slight understatement, they’ve been mad, disorganised […]
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