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It’s official, I’m a graduate!

16th October 2018

So it’s official… I’m an English graduate from the University of York. 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 […]

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Life Post-University: Graduate Anxiety

16th July 2018

University brought wonderful things into my life, but I also developed anxiety especially as a graduate. I’d never really had anxiety beforehand, not like I’d experienced at university anyway. And I always managed to control it, because my main anxiety would occur before an exam but then my philosophy of whatever happens, happens, would pipe […]

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The top 10 cafes in York

22nd June 2018

I have a lot of experience of cafes in York, since I cafe-hopped extensively during my time in York. I well and truly lived up to the stereotype of an English student reading a book with a cup of tea in a cafe, with the occasional piece of cake. Betty’s Cafe, York I’ve got to start with […]

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20 books from my degree worth reading

22nd June 2018

After three years and countless reading lists, I thought I’d share 20 books from my degree worth reading. I read a considerable amount of the “classics” in my English course at York along with some obscure literature that no one has ever heard of mainly in the Anglo-Saxon textbook. But there were also some absolute […]

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ciao adios i'm done with university

Ciao Adios, I’m done with University!

17th May 2018

I’ve only gone and finished my university degree like Ciao Adios, I’m done. No big deal. I’ve written an 8,000 word dissertation, eaten my body weight in chocolate and massively exploited the free version of citeforme to reference my 40+ sources. But I made it through! So Ciao, adois you disgustingly long piece of writing you, […]

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Bakeshop, York

7th June 2017

I was never really someone who brunched that much before visiting Bakeshop and other cafes in York. I would prefer to have two meals rather than just one, but then I realised you can eat more to compensate as it is essentially one meal with the calories of two. Dreams. Yet York has so many […]

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How to make time for everything 101

5th March 2017

I thought I’d write a little how to make time for everything 101. Recently, I’ve felt like my life is an endless to do list and the majority of the things on that list aren’t actually things I want to do. There have been lots of things I must do but not a great deal of […]

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there was a snail in my sausage

There was a snail in my sausage

22nd January 2017

Now I’m going to tell you a little story about when I found a snail in a sausage (read more in the Daily Mail here – yes it made the Mail and the Mirror here). Ellie and I were feeling the second year blues – so much work, so little time and sometimes it’s all […]

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