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When Nottingham Wasn’t Your Firm Choice

For something that happens to so many of us, we don’t talk about it enough. When you open your results envelope and see that you’ve missed the grades for your firm choice. When you log into UCAS to find that it’s your insurance choice that’s been confirmed. That heart sinking moment when you realise that …

Handling Academic Setbacks

With exam season just around the corner, I recently felt an unfamiliar wave of anxiety coming my way. Some introspection revealed that my panic was most probably a reaction to the academic setbacks I faced last year. From growing up in a culture that heavily focused on top grades to never having faced academic failure …

Reading Repetition

Don’t you just hate those weeks where you can’t really remember what you’ve done because every day just merges into the other because they’ve all be so similar…well that pretty much sums up my week. Not to have a depressing slant in anyway, but these next three weeks are crunch time; deadline wise, dissertation wise …