How to find your perfect match (academically)

Help. There are thirteen optional papers and I need to choose two. It’s like on those dating shows, you know, where they introduce all the potential matches at the start. Start by identifying your dealbreakers. I can guarantee there will be some – maybe you don’t date smokers, or people who don’t want kids, or…

A survivor’s guide to Fresher’s Week (and the rest of it)

It’s that time of year again. Do I have enough folders? How many saucepans is too many? Where on earth are my winter coats? As students around the country pack up and head off to university, I’ve got some tips I gathered through freshers week and first year, to hopefully help ease some of the…

So, what’s your favourite book?

The eternal question. It comes up at almost every social event in which an English student is obliged to introduced themselves to someone and the conversation drifts to the fact that we study English. It then runs something like this: Them: So, what do you study at uni then? Me: English Them: Oh lovely, what’s…

Cambridge English – one year on

Apart from a few posts about admissions tests and subject choice (and one about interview technique which I intended to write last year but will now have to wait until the next round of interviews in December) I have deliberately not made this blog hugely Cambridge-focused because I want it to be relevant to everyone…