The Terror of Knowing

Category: university

  • Friday Reads¦ 5th December 2014

    Omg, would you look at this, I did another Friday Reads! But this time in shiny video form, oooo aaah etc. etc. Keep expectations low, ignore the furrow in my brow that stayed there for the entire video, keep your fingers crossed that I’ll actually stick to a limited TBR here (past experience says otherwise).…

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  • Reading During University

    This entire post is inspired by a video that’s stayed with me a lot, and that is Kristina Horner’s How to Make Time for Reading in College. Equally useful was this video I saw later by PeruseProject called How to Read More During College/School. I suggest you check them both out, not only because they…

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  • Friday Reads ¦ 21st November 2014

    So since I am feeling very ugh about my face today I have decided not to participate in making a Friday Reads video. For a few weeks now I’ve wanted to jump on the bandwagon because, as I understand it, these videos are intended to be very casual and quick to make and watch. So…

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  • September/October TBR Video

    You know that period in which I was musing on the idea of trying out being a booktuber? Well, at which stage of making videos about books can you actually call yourself that? Is it when you make your first haul? When you compile your first TBR list? When you make your first review? I’m not entirely…

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  • September TBR

    September TBR

    It’s 1st September and we all know what that means! Yes, yes, we all have to choke down sobs at the realisation that not only are we once again not boarding the Hogwarts Express for another year of fun and friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but we are also very much past the…

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  • Time to say goodbye

    I’m going to have a lump in my throat when I write this. I know I am, it’s inevitable, so let’s all accept that and continue on anyway. Last Friday I, with shaking hands, jostled through a small group crowding around a couple of sheets of A4 pinned up on a window that meant so…

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  • A Retrospective: Shakespeare and Les Misérables

    Oh, why hello there 2012! Wow, you really were a lifetime ago. And guess who forgot about this blog entirely in that intervening passage of time? Yes, me! It’s particularly wonderful to take a look back at 19 year-old me from the position of 21 year-old me, a person who has finished university and is…

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  • A reflection on personal statements

    Writing a College Essay: The Miracle of Swindon Town #153 I’m a big fan of John Green’s insights into the wonderful world of writing. In his latest video he talks about college application essays and gives some useful advice. For example, don’t be melodramatic,  make sure your writing isn’t fancy and flowery and unnecessarily overwrought.…

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  • What is it good for?

    I think I’ve finally realised why I have such a hard time when it comes to certain essays – right now the essay titles for the International Relations side of the politics course are leaving something to be desired, in my opinion. I don’t get it. I just don’t get IR. I mean, sure I…

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  • A reason to feel like an ignorant human being?

    A reason to feel like an ignorant human being? Hmm well I know nothing of world history. There, I’ve said it. I can just about tell you about World War I and II (the reason I dropped History after Year 9 because I simply couldn’t take another lesson about Adolf Hitler), the Industrial Revolution, castles…

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