…or so I keep telling myself!
It’s that time of year, for most 17 year-olds at least, to be making yourself out as the most perfect student on the planet and explaining just why it is that you enjoy spending all your free time reading French literature. That’s right, it’s university application time!
Hopefully, if all goes well, I’ll have everything sorted by the end of this week but with a tutor who’d struggle to find his own back-side, I’m doubtful I’ll have even a half-decent reference to send off before next Christmas. After months of deliberating, I’ve decided upon the two courses I want to apply to; either French & History or just French, and have now just finished writing the dreaded personal statement. What I hate about that is that to stand any chance of competing against everyone else applying, you have to know so much about your subject and have ‘read around’ so widely. I’ve read statements from friends who list reams of books that they intend to have finished by the time they could be called for interview but personally, I think that’s a bit of a risky move. Instead, I’ve gone for the option of reading a few books, listing a few I’d already read that could be loosely related to French or History, and choosing just one per subject that I plan on finishing before December/January time. Not too much pressure on me, then.
In addition to a few of the books, I decided that watching a few French films would be another way for me to ‘immerse myself in French culture‘. Thankfully, this didn’t take half as much time as ploughing my way through books on the French revolution; instead, I have really enjoyed watching some brilliant films that I would have otherwise never seen. The closest I would have got in English is some poor quality, big-budget Hollywood remake. It is because of this new-found love of some classic 1950s films that I will be talking about them in the coming week. Hopefully, that will make for a slightly more interesting read than my ravings about UCAS forms.
Anyway, that was a bit of a stupid way for me to let off some steam about the whole stressful procedure of university applications and just a way to break the gap between one piece of homework and the next (why, why, why does it all get set for just before the holidays?).
P.S. Being pushed for time, I didn’t even get chance to read through that post so I’ll say sorry for anything that makes no sense at all. That’s just me rambling.
