‘Go to university,’ they say. ‘It’ll broaden your horizons and outlook on the world, not just from the academic side but also from the social aspects of meeting people from all over the world,’ they implore. ‘It’ll be the best three years of your life,’ they reiterate to a point borderlining brainwashing.
It’s all bullshit.
Sure, university [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
