I want to study languages at Oxford so badly. No one from my (actually quite rubbish really) state grammar school has got in for five years, and where languages are concerned I don't think anyone ever has, which for a language specialist school is so bad!
So far I have been reading literature, doing lots of hard grammar and trying to arrange a trip to France/Germany in the summer, just so I become more fluent. It's hard, because I really don't know what to expect. The hardest thing is being among other pupils who haven't even thought about university yet and don't even do their homework.