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Assessment: Essays and Exams

It’s the first week back after Easter and students in the library before 10am and the smell of highlighters in the air can only mean one thing: it’s exam time. Although I don’t know anyone who enjoys exams per se,

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Spring in Bristol – what’s going on?

After the last week of term, I’m going to enjoy the Easter holidays and take a much-needed break. The last seven days have brought with them two essay deadlines, a presentation evening for the charity project I’ve been working on

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Start of TB2 – new courses and activities

At the time of my last entry, we’d only just finished exam season but Teaching Block 2 is now well under way. I myself am taking three units: ‘Death, Dying and Disease’, ’Space, Time and Matter’ and ‘Philosophy of Mathematics’.

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December: Reflections on how term went, things happening at end of term, plans for the break

As I come to the mid-point of my degree, it feels like an appropriate moment to take some time to reflect on how far I’ve come and on what I’ve been doing since joining Bristol a year and a half

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Welcome and Progress Update

It’s quite a scary thought to see that November is already here and half of my first term is gone already. Fortunately, I have managed to catch my breath a little bit in the past few days as it has

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