If you are starting your first year, let me just say this: everyone is going to feel EXACTLY as you feel regardless of where you come from (yes, even that group of people who knew each other before starting university). Everyone will be as excited and nervous as you are. Everyone will be trying to…
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My A Level results day experience (Michaela)
Not to be dramatic or anything, but I seriously felt like it would be the end of the world if I didn’t get the A Level results that I wanted. I genuinely believed that my life plan would just be ruined if I didn’t get the highest marks. But here’s the thing: that pressure is…
Reflections on my foundation/first year: what I enjoyed/didn’t enjoy so much (Michaela)
Having just completed my first year of my Filmmaking degree, I can’t help but compare my foundation year experience with the year that has just passed. You see, when I first started life as a uni student, I was analysing linguistics, unpicking literary texts and writing essays. But for my second year, I extended my…
Applying for a Masters at Manchester Met (Heather)
Trust me, I know first-hand how stressful it can be to apply for postgraduate study. I mean, it’s like life is actually starting to get real! Having gone through the masters application process at Manchester Met and several other universities in the UK, I have some top step-by-step tips for those of you braving the…
Making my firm and insurance choices (Toby)
Congratulations. You have reached a point in your educational career in which you have to make your firm and insurance university choices. I assume you have been accepted into the five you could apply for. It’s okay if not, that will just make this decision easier. There are a multitude of factors to consider when…
Making decisions about postgraduate study (Heather)
Having poured over where and what to study for my masters for years (I literally mean years), I know first-hand that deciding on your postgraduate course can be more than stressful. Postgraduate study is designed for you to delve deeper into your preferred field, often requiring a much more specific, profound understanding of your topic…
Making my final university choice (Shaheen)
Would you believe me that I simply googled ‘Cheapest University in the UK’? If you are a home student there is no difference in tuition fees, but for an overseas student like me it’s a major factor. £15,000 vs £22,000? I picked £15,000 in a heartbeat. I asked these questions to myself before choosing a…
Completing my UCAS application. My top tips (Izzy)
Around this time of year, many students will be completing their UCAS applications and apprehensively waiting to hear back from universities across the UK. The UCAS application process appears to be a lengthy and quite complicated exercise, but with a few simple tricks, your UCAS application doesn’t have to be. My first tip would be…
Choosing a course when you have no idea what you want to study (Izzy)
A levels can be so absorbing that thinking past results day seems an age away. However, it creeps up on you and all of a sudden it reaches the December before your exams and you have to choose what you want to study at university. This is a huge decision, which you may feel totally…
My open day experience (Hannah)
Hello! In this post, I will be sharing some moments from my open day experience. It has suddenly occurred to me that I have been a student for nearly five ENTIRE years (how did that happen?) and I have been getting all nostalgic thinking about the first moments when I began my uni journey ❤️…
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