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…
Category: Izzy’s Blog Posts
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…
What not to pack for university (Izzy)
Packing for university is hard. I had no idea what I would and wouldn’t need when I moved out, and although I’d read so many articles about what to take, I was still clueless. I didn’t bring too many unnecessary things to uni but a lot of my friends did, so here’s my list of…
What arriving at university is really like: my first year experience (Izzy)
Having just finished my second year at Manchester Met, it seems crazy to think about who I was before uni and how much my life has changed since then. I moved into my uni halls on the 16th September 2017 and I was so apprehensive. Uni was a huge step into adulthood and I didn’t…
My Manchester bucket list, what I have and haven’t done yet. (Izzy)
Living in Manchester is amazing, it unlocks so many new experiences for students who choose to study here. I am from Herefordshire, which is a really rural area where – if I’m honest – nothing much happens. Don’t get me wrong, I love my rural background just as much as I love living in Manchester…
How I’m going to use my degree to achieve my career plans (Izzy)
Since the EU Referendum in 2016, I’ve had my head in every political and financial article I can find. To say I’ve enjoyed reading about the uncertainty since would be the wrong word…but it has intrigued me. Part of what has kept my interest after almost 3 years is the writing by financial and political…
Getting a summer job (Izzy)
Once exams are over it’s such a huge relief, although I ended up feeling like I had nothing to do. Going from studying all day to literally nothing was a big jump. So I needed a job. I thought that being in one of the largest cities in the UK, it would be easy to…
Deciding between subjects: How I chose my degree course (Izzy)
I study BA (Hons) Economics and Politics, so here’s how I decided to choose this subject. Growing up, I never really knew what I wanted to be when I was older. I was quite good at most subjects at school, so there was no obvious path for me to choose when it came to GCSE…
Choosing where to live at uni (Izzy)
Once you’ve decided which uni you want to go to, you need to decide where you actually want to live. MMU has a huge range of accommodation, some on the campus itself, and some a little further out. I chose to live in Liberty Central, which are halls just across the road from the Students’…
Preparing for my A Level revision. What did and didn’t work for me (Izzy)
All in all, A levels are a bit of a headache. However, if you put your mind to it, the situation probably doesn’t have to be as daunting as I made it for myself.
