Woe. I am full of woe. I have yet an another essay crisis and although the planning stage has gone amazingly well thanks to some wonderful friends and some hard work, now the angst and woe has struck. I still have time to write the continuous prose part, that which I find the hardest, but I have far too much material and it's the sort of the essay ( Read more... )

I just found out that...

I have an unconditional offer from Brookes!

I got in!

In January I will be a *real* student!

I have an urgent plea. Does anyone know what the name for the structure like the one housing the statue above the entrance of Queen's College ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone for your lovely good luck wishes xx ( Read more... )

So. My application is now ready. At the very last minute I noticed a crucial and tragic semi-colon mistake in my personal statement, so thankfully this near disaster was intercepted just in time.

I am now incredibly nervous. If I'm not successful I just don't know what I'll do.

I'm finally preparing my application to Brookes to hopefully upgrade from Associate Student to proper Part-Time Student in January. Today, I managed to arrange for one of my Sociology tutors from last year to act as my referee. I'm so glad she remembered me. I'm happy because I think an academic reference will help my application. I should be ( Read more... )

I opened our green wheelie bin to find a very large dead goose inside.

Someone must have found it on the ground, and thought our bin a suitable receptacal. I have phoned the council and they shall be collecting it tomorrow.

The other day a friend and I visited the Christ Church Picture Gallery. It was amazing as you could approach the paintings so closely as to really see the support and brushwork ( Read more... )

Today I had my first lecture on the Italian Renaissance. I have also now received my module guides and student handbooks. My first impression is that History of Art is going to be tough, much more difficult than the English and Sociology modules that I took last year. This is partly due to the unfamiliarity of the subject...but then again Sociology ( Read more... )

I have not slept at all. I tried everything...but it just wasn't going to happen.

Work today will be interesting.