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Category: English and Related Literature

  • Live the best student life at the University of York

    23 February 2018 by Beth
    3 minute read

    Being at University isn’t always about studying to get a degree. It’s also about making the most of the ‘student experience’. I would say York offers the best student experience…

  • International student perspective on life at York

    23 February 2018 by Trina
    5 minute read

    As an international student, it’s sometimes hard to shake off the sense of being an outsider, of not belonging to the community as much as other people. However, I’ve found…

  • Let’s talk English at York

    24 January 2018 by Beth
    3 minute read

    I know everyone tells you that University is “an experience of a lifetime” (or at least that’s what every teacher kept telling me). However, I am writing to tell you…

  • What it’s like to study English at York

    24 January 2018 by Trina
    4 minute read

    I’m now halfway through my time in York as an English student, and I’ve been enjoying every minute of it. Here’s some things I wish I’d known about the course…

  • Top 5 places to eat/drink/be in York

    2 March 2017 by George
    5 minute read

    Now you may or may not have confirmed your place at York, but either way it would be helpful to know a little bit more about the place. There are…

  • Dramasoc is reason enough to join York

    6 February 2017 by George
    4 minute read

    I am sweating buckets. Quite a few of us are. For this is our first play at a new university, in front of people we barely know. And I am about…

  • Studying Dante and Italian

    3 February 2017 by George
    3 minute read

                      This afternoon I will attempt to translate a canto of Dante’s Inferno from its original Italian. This is something I never would have thought…

  • English at York: liberating and self-affirming

    21 December 2016 by George
    3 minute read

    In my first term at university, I learned so much. It felt like my mind was suddenly so much more receptive to new ideas. *CLICHE ALERT* I saw the world…

  • English essays at York are different

    11 April 2016 by Lewis
    4 minute read

    It is with some trepidation that I admit to you the dark secret of university life: you actually have to do some work in order to gain a degree.  Horrifying…

  • English Lit March 2016

    16 March 2016 by Lewis
    3 minute read

    Right so you know how great the English Department at York is by now; you’ve probably been on a visit day and all the statistics will have been tattooed onto…

  • A week in the life of an English Lit student

    19 February 2016 by Lewis
    5 minute read

    Goodness doesn’t time fly – it feels like only yesterday you were all avidly reading my last blog entry, and here I am serving up another one.  But the high…

  • English Lit January 2016

    21 January 2016 by Lewis
    4 minute read

    Hello again English Literature people!  I hope you all had very merry Christmases (that word doesn’t look right) and have survived the return to school relatively unscathed. It’s now 2016,…