Well, it looks like I've overestimate the library again - was all set to go but apparently it doesn't open until 9.30. So I have a little free time and thought I might blog (novel idea these days). First up, I am revising for my last undergraduate exam ever. I find this wildly exciting, but I've sort of lost my momentum a bit - finding it hard to maintain the inertia and keep motivated. Hopefully popping into the library will compel me to do some work today; I'm planning on staying until closing time, as every hour really is starting to count.

Also, last night I went to the ULU Laurels, an award ceremony for services to the Union, where I picked up an eponymous. It was fun, but it was certainly overlong, and at times bizarre. Lo-fi classical music was being pumped in to the hall during dinner, and it seemed to have a fairly...traumatic twist to it. Included were Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, which I found odd but potentially endearing. When it switched to Dies Irae though, I was truly flummoxed. Overall it was a fun night, but I think I'm going to have to really crack on with the Donne revision to make up for lost time - I only stayed a bit longer after the awards were finished, but it was lengthy enough to ensure I had had a few glasses of wine in me. With the aim of providing dynamic, multimedia content, I have included a few pictures.


The other thing that entered my head was that I'm not really sure where my student journalism stuff is going to go while I'm at Cambridge - they have an excellent paper, Varsity, but it's pretty well known for being very intense and very cliquey. I'm not sure I want that. I was however thinking back to a conversation I had with Joe (editor next year of London Student) about blogs, and was wondering if potentially I could do something this way - maybe on HE Policy. I don't think my not being at ULU would really have to matter because a blog is kind of supplementary material anyway. I do think I will mention it to him, he can only say no.

Labels: revision, yay

"The circle of human knowledge, illuminated by the pale, cold light of reason, is so infinitesimally small, the dark regions of human ignorance which lie beyond that luminous ring so immeasurably vast, that imagination is feign to step up to the borderline and send the warm, richly colored beams of her fairy lantern streaming out into the darkness ; and so, peering into the gloom, she is apt to mistake the shadowy reflections of her own figure for real beings moving in the abyss.

Sir James George FrazerThe Golden Bough

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I'm a 23 year-old student in London Cambridge London, studying English Literature Law. It's hard to really think of anything truly personal I can put here that might give you some idea of who I am, so I will just tell you that my favourite Shakespeare play is Richard II, my favourite chocolate bar is Snickers, and I have a bit of a thing for instant coffee, especially if someone else makes it for me.

I'm interested in Renaissance Literature, Higher Education policy, and libraries.
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