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My Experience Applying to University

October 22, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

The deadline for early application to UK universities through UCAS fell one week ago. Thankfully, by this time I had already submitted my final application, to which my references had been added and the progressions team at my college had looked over. Still, the oppressive feeling of doubt hung over me like a gloomy cloud. …

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Taking Inspiration from a Museum

October 19, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

“Here’s the mould of a musical bird long passed from light, Which over the earth before man came was winging;” –Hardy, T. Today I volunteered at a creative writing workshop in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. It was organised to commemorate the writing of Thomas Hardy, who, in 1915, visited the RAMM and wrote a …

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What’s going on…in my mind?

October 14, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

Pheeeeeew. Deep Breath. These first few lines are the very beginning. I sit in my slightly cooler than comfortable bedroom, the drooping pillows threatening my spine with lifelong posture problems, my fingers hover excitedly over the keys. I watch my feet, clad in white socks one run away from the bin, dancing excitedly too and …

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