{"id":901,"date":"2016-02-19T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T09:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/?p=901"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T09:13:50","slug":"english-lit-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2016\/02\/19\/english-lit-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in the life of an English Lit student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness doesn\u2019t time fly \u2013 it feels like only yesterday you were all avidly reading my last blog entry, and here I am serving up another one.\u00a0 But the high aerial velocity of time also means that most of you will have heard back from nearly all your university choices by now, and that is scary.\u00a0 It\u2019s scary because it means the actual decision of a first choice begins lurking in the corner of the room and coughing menacingly.\u00a0 No doubt you have heard so many English course details your ears now spontaneously bleed upon hearing the words \u201ccontact hours\u201d, so this month I thought I would try and give you a snapshot of my extra-curricular life at York.<\/p>\n<h3>Monday<\/h3>\n<p>Rosy-fingered Dawn shoves her fist between my curtains and says \u201cOi get up\u201d in a gruff, Ray Winston-esque voice.\u00a0 I potter around reading for my seminars and lectures that week, until at about 1pm I start getting concerned about my radio show, <em>Saturated Facts<\/em>, that evening. \u00a0I cycle to the library, meet co-host Sacha by the Encyclopaedia Britannicas and collect the one with this week\u2019s letter in it.\u00a0 We spend the next five hours chatting and fact hunting at a leisurely pace until 6pm approaches and we rush to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yusu.org\/opportunities\/societies\/ury\" target=\"_blank\">University Radio York<\/a> (URY) studio.\u00a0 The show happens and I get scared of all the buttons at the end so manage to mess up playing the news &#8211; oops! \u00a0I go home, cook and relax with housemates for a bit, then try and squeeze some more reading in before bed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-966\" style=\"width: 932px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-966\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681.jpg?resize=932%2C523\" alt=\"c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681\" width=\"932\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681.jpg?w=932&amp;ssl=1 932w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/c3b3f823-30b8-484f-8a36-520d84917681.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">URY studio &#8211; 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except it\u2019s not, because I have a seminar, and then have to try and fit in all the jobs that have a nasty habit of building up over time, like washing clothes, tidying, writing blogs, etc.\u00a0 Not to mention all the one off things that sometimes turn up, like meeting friends, going to parties, auditioning and rehearsing for plays and going shopping.\u00a0 And these can happen on any day!\u00a0 I could be an Olympic cyclist with all the scurrying back and forth from uni that I do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/oly2004-cycling-track-ho-36_600.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-902\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-902 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/oly2004-cycling-track-ho-36_600.jpg?resize=222%2C299\" alt=\"oly2004-cycling-track-ho-36_600\" width=\"222\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/oly2004-cycling-track-ho-36_600.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/oly2004-cycling-track-ho-36_600.jpg?w=285&amp;ssl=1 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cycle to uni for societies and you too could have legs like Chris Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Saturday<\/h3>\n<p>ComedySoc committee happens on Saturday, so we discuss last week\u2019s show and plan the next one, along with anything else occupying the society.\u00a0 Then after that it\u2019s the writer\u2019s workshop, where people bring the sketches they\u2019ve written that week to be read out and chatted about.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m a terribly lazy person I rarely have more sketches to show, but I enjoy just attending to laugh and give feedback.<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, Sunday plays host to the stand up workshop in the afternoon, which is always good fun and very supportive.\u00a0 So there you have it: one week in the life of Lewis, and despite the slight bursting around the seams I don\u2019t regret doing any of it. York just has so much to offer those who look for it, and I can\u2019t think of anything that makes my life more rewarding right now than the fact that I can fill a whole blog with the silly things I do beyond my degree.\u00a0 Come to York, get involved, have fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s as easy as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness doesn\u2019t time fly \u2013 it feels like only yesterday you were all avidly reading my last blog entry, and here I am serving up another one.\u00a0 But the high aerial velocity of time also means that most of you will have heard back from nearly all your university choices by now, and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,44,8],"tags":[156,285,206,11],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-english-and-related-literature","category-study","tag-comedy-society","tag-extra-curricular","tag-shambles","tag-societies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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