Exams, Compositions and Cross Country Running
It is good to be back in Bristol after a long four week holiday. Although I really enjoyed my break, I did not do as much work as I would have liked; revision for my Approaches to Music History exam, …
Deadlines, Stone Circles, Exams and Egypt
I didn’t get the usual Christmas is over and back to work feeling that I normally do in January this year, but that was because I spent almost my entire holiday doing uni work! I was writing a conservation management …
Deadlines, Dissertations, Placements and Plays
After a busy first term working on Devised Performance, I spent Christmas catching up with my English reading and working on my dissertation. As it was due in mid-January, I spent a lot of the holidays researching, writing and refining …
Celebrating Christmas in Theatre
There must be a word for being incredibly happy, excited and extremely busy and simultaneously ridiculously tired and ready for the end of term. The atmosphere in the last weeks of term is a buzz of exhaustion, joy and contentment. …
Half way through!
First term has gone extremely quickly, and it is slightly terrifying to think I am now technically half way through my degree at Bristol! The first term of the year is always the longest, and by the last couple of …
When things don’t go your way
Things are pretty much the same as they were at the beginning of the term. The workload started picking up even more, especially when essay deadlines started coming closer and closer. I kind of knew it was going to busy …
Looking forward
I’ve now finished my first term of 2nd year – meaning I’m basically half way through my degree! Since I’ve been home this Christmas, a lot of people have been asking me what ‘my plans are’ for after uni. In …
Preparing for philosophy essays
After needing to re-adjust to the business of university life in the former half of term, the latter has been comparatively calm! Now acquainted with the workload, I have found it far easier to know how long each piece of …
Happy holidays
The first term of university is a strange one; leading up to Christmas and saying goodbye to all my new friends for the holidays made me think how only three months ago I didn’t even know these people existed. Yet …
Heading home for Christmas
Towards the end of my first term as a Bristol University student, the hype of the Christmas holidays had everyone missing home. However, with a few deadlines in the last week I didn’t have much time to get too excited …