Archive for the ‘Education.’ Category

The Current State of Things.

Cambridge: interviews done, waiting to hear back.
London School of Economics: conditional offer; AAB.
York: conditional offer; AAB.
Durham: no response yet.
Edinburgh: no response yet.
I am so terribly impatient and will take any rejection very personally.

Impersonal Statement.

It’s more than uncommon for anything to serve to demoralise me to any extent, but the existence of the necessity of a supposedly ‘personal’ statement in the UCAS university application process. The word ‘personal’ in ‘personal statement’ surely implies that the statement should be a reflection of the whole of the writer’s personality: instead, it [...]

Results.

13 As. Beautiful.
Full marks in History Module 1 and Module 2, Chemistry Module 1 and Physics Module 2.

General Studies: Unit 3 (Society, Politics and the Economy)

I can honestly say that I’ve never had such fun in an examination. Not to say that I’ve necessarily done well, but the last question had me in stitches by the time that I’d finished, and parts of my answer to the third question had me laughing. Fuck the result: it was an amusing exam [...]

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