Just Finished my Personal Statement AMA

What course are you applying for? That might help you know what direction to take it in.

Im in my first year of college but i want to apply for Law in maybe Oxbridge, top 10 unis

I wrote about what I think the study of languages combines and how the interplay of these factors makes me want to study languages at degree level. I made a point about the rules of language.

I tried to say- I know what studying this is about, and this, in particular, is why I know studying it further IS for me and I know what this course entails.

After is for more detailed discussion of texts or work experience or whatever.

thank you

A voice in your head saying, "You've goat to be kidding me."

Here we goat again

Do you know what you're applying for?

HOW DO YOU STOP PROCRASTINATING

mine is due VERY soon I've written a few drafts but honestly it needs so much improvement. I have alot of things to write about it's just forming actual sentences I find difficult.

That pun was a diamond in the gruff.

What makes you want to do languages? What do you think you will do after university? - Thank you!

This! What sort of careers does a language degree open up for you, how are the job prospects, and where do you see yourself after university?

You can do stuff directly using language skills, like translation, interpreting (spoken language) and teaching, but there is a lack of people with multiple skills, combining language skills with business, charity, engineering, media, tourism to name just a few.

I haven't got figures to hand but I think job prospects are very strong as we don't have enough people with languages in this country- we have to get a lot of people in to do it.

After university, I see myself doing postgraduate study, hopefully up to PhD level, in Italian and/or French literature. Not sure of specialisms yet, but now I really like epistolary novels such as Les Liaisons Dangereuses, stuff about semiotics for example The Name of the Rose, and French and Italian literary critics such as Italo Calvino and Michel Foucault. Reading a book atm by Baudrillard about simulacra and simulation- basically that things pretending to be other things actually expose the emptiness and unreality of the 'original' thing itself <3 fun geeky times.

I see myself hopefully being an academic and teaching at a university, or translating literature. Being an interpreter for the BBC also sounds like a fab job, and I like journalism. Being Louis Theroux would be an ideal occupation.

Languages can take you lots of different ways though, not just mine.

According to Cambridge, language students are the 3rd most employable students after Medics and Lawyers (though I do feel that they missed out engineering).