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Why Second Year is the Best Year

As of today I have officially finished my second year of university. The time has flown faster than expected and now I only have a summer separating me and the last year of my degree. Whilst I have not experienced third year yet, I have a feeling it will be a lot of ugly crying …

#MeantToBe friends at uni – Phoebe and Millie

Congrats to Phoebe for winning the first week of the University #MeantToBe competition! She shared her story on Instagram and won a £50 Amazon voucher – easy peasy! To enter the competition you need to share your pic and story on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #MeantToBe and tag @uniofnottingham. Or if you want …

So you’re coming to Nottingham?

If after receiving your A level results (or equivalent) you’ve found you’ve secured your place at Nottingham, then congratulations! You’re about to start at least three awesome years here. If you’re nervous, or just don’t know what to expect, that’s completely normal! I felt the same, yet here I am on the other side having …

To be or NOTTS to be (that is the cringey tagline)

The one piece of advice my form tutor (and probably your form tutor too) gave me when applying for university was not to apply based on the jazziness of its prospectus cover. Oopsie. 2013 was a great year for the Nottingham prospectus, so hats off to the marketing team because that’s the reason I picked …

UoN and I

It was early 2011 when I began deciding on the universities I should attend. To some of you this may seem a little early considering I only started university in the September of 2012, however the universities I was interested in were actually of the Australian kind with a start date of February 2012. It is a long …

My Nottingham journey: #MeantToBe

Back in the dark ages of March 2011, I made my first visit to the University of Nottingham on an undergraduate UCAS offer day. I have always been incredibly indecisive and had arguably not done the most sensible thing when I made my university application – I had only looked around one of my 5 …