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My summer internship experience at a marketing firm
September 24, 2022
The skills and disciplines you gain from an English degree are extremely wide-ranging, which can make deciding which career path to follow difficult. Until around the halfway point of my degree I, like many others, was unsure of what career path I wanted to pursue. Although I enjoyed all the modules I had taken on …
Exploring historical buildings and archaeological monuments in Bulgaria
September 13, 2022
At the end of August and beginning of September, I was asked to be part of a group funded by the European Union’s Erasmus + programme sent to Bulgaria to study Bulgarian heritage and culture; the particular focus of this placement was the conservation of historic buildings and archaeological monuments. The programme included first-hand experience …
Joining a society: my time at Impact Magazine
August 25, 2022
When I started at Nottingham, I immediately searched for what societies I could join here. The pandemic was affecting all aspects of life, including the possibility of the University hosting in-person lectures and events. Therefore, I knew that my best hope in making friends would be through joining societies, and I was right! I originally …
Transitioning to university: making friends and gaining independence
August 1, 2022
In-between completing mountains of UCAS applications, shopping for an extensive list of household items that your parents insist you ‘need,’ and signing up for university group chats, the beginning of university life can be both exciting and stressful. Hopefully, this blog entry will help to convert these worries into hope for the new opportunities that …
Enjoying a topic that I did not expect to enjoy
June 29, 2022
As someone who loved English Literature A’ Level, I couldn’t wait to get started on my English BA degree at the University of Nottingham back in 2018. There was just one small thing niggling at the back of my mind. While all the other universities that I’d applied to were for an “English Literature” course, …
How to survive exam stress
May 30, 2022
We all know that handful of people who breeze through revision and coursework deadlines. But for most of us, getting through exams, coursework, and group projects can be exceptionally stressful. Below, I have put together my top four tips for coping with and conquering exam stress! FIND WHERE YOU WORK BEST Finding the perfect place …
Thinking about the future when time has lost all shape and predictability
April 21, 2021
English degrees don’t outline a select career path. We’ve all heard the jokes with that central gist, that the only thing to do with an English degree is to become a teacher (no shade implied; I have nothing but respect for the profession!). Of course, there are plenty of other jobs available to us too. …
Fighting Covid-19 in the time of assessments
March 19, 2021
Three modules, three assessments, all due on the same day. The Autumn term ended, and students dispersed for the upcoming Christmas season. I work as hard as I could in between the festivities we were allowed to have among the current climate. I took a break for Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and let’s be real, …
Review: Chinglish by Sue Cheung
March 15, 2021
As the new year unfolds, to ‘read more’ is undoubtedly many of our new year’s resolution, mine included. However, for us English students this goal becomes far greater since we aim to read more content not related to our course. My personal challenge of this year being to read more works by BAME authors. Having …
Rethinking the World with Chick Lit
February 19, 2021
This Christmas, I was gifted Cecelia Ahern’s One Hundred Names from a family member – with their flawed logic being that if I like the Bridget Jones movies, then romance fiction should be right up my street. But when I accidentally packed it to bring back to Uni alongside all my other books, giving it …
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