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7 Things You Don't Realise Are Affecting Your Studies
Humans can be more easily influenced than we realise. You already know that the way you study affects what you learn; for instance, you might have discovered for yourself that covering your notes with highlighter pen is much less effective for retaining information than having someone quiz you on it. You might even have noticed...
7 Things You Can Do If You Picked the Wrong Degree
It’s the situation everyone dreads. It’s a few weeks into your degree. You’ve bought your textbooks, got to know your lecturers and made a few friends on your course. Maybe you’ve even written your first essay or two. And it slowly begins to dawn on you that you have made the wrong decision. Perhaps you’ve...
15 Great English Words You Probably Won’t Have Learned
About the Author Stephanie Allen read Classics and English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and is currently researching a PhD in Early Modern Academic Drama at the University of Fribourg. I recently had the misfortune of babysitting for some French children whose capacity for wickedness and violence I would not have thought possible from a...
10 Ways to Tell If Oxbridge Is the Right Destination For You
Are you thinking about applying to Oxford or Cambridge when you submit your UCAS form this year? If so, it’s advisable to think carefully before taking the plunge. Not everyone properly stops to consider whether or not Oxford or Cambridge will be right for them; some get caught up in the hype, wanting to go...
Are you thinking of studying Law?
With one lawyer per 400 people, the UK is in the top ten countries in the world by percentage of lawyers, and the popularity of law as a degree remains high. Though it seems a strongly vocational degree, it is in fact the case that law graduates can go into a wide variety of possible...
Are you thinking of studying Languages?
It’s hard to say whether it’s an excellent or terrible time to be studying modern foreign languages at university at the moment. On the one hand, with dwindling student numbers, university language departments are facing significant budget cuts and some are closing down entirely. On the other hand, this means that the scarcity of graduates...
8 Poems and Novels about Cambridge
Cambridge has less of a reputation for producing famous writers than perhaps it deserves. For one, some of Cambridge’s greatest writers are not strongly associated with the city; John Milton was a graduate of Christ’s, but Paradise Lost doesn’t make much mention of May Balls or punting. For another, there’s no Inklings circle to produce...
The Top 8 English Towns and Cities With Fascinating Histories
England is curiously well suited to developing history. Almost everywhere on Earth has a fascinating history, of course. Humans have lived virtually everywhere, invented things virtually everywhere, fought wars virtually everywhere, engaged in intrigues virtually everywhere and generally done all the things that history books are made of all over the world. But in much...
10 Great Activities to Try Out this Winter
It can feel like there’s nothing fun to do in winter.