English entrants '09 solidarity thread~!

I am actually an alien and my intention is to study your human ways of writing so I can propagandize your species with our superior thinking, in order to subjugate you and succeed in my ultimate goal of UNIVERSAL DOMINATION.


But really, I hadn't considered literature until AS/A-Level when somehow I became really good at it and got mega mega marks in the exams (not boasting here) I enjoyed it but wasn't certain about studying it further. So I chose Chemistry at Edinburgh. Oops. It was awful; I hated it; bad decision. Hence I stopped going to lectures and just had fun (and got drunk and shopped) until my accommodation was up- since I had to pay until Easter at that point.

AND SO, I reapplied and decided to go in completely the opposite direction and do English after all. After swift research and one personal statement written in 3 days to make the deadline, here I am
Where it will take me, no-one knows. But at least I'm certain this course is one I will enjoy.

By "less enthusiasm" I merely meant to sit down and read. I would prefer to eat or drink or socialise.. but then I imagine so would a lot of people

Go gentle on me kidz

I'm totally more in the crazy intellectual who never leaves their room vein though & am not in it for the student parties. Each to each. I hope your last minute decision pays off and that you have an awesome time. I may even see you there.

That's really interesting. (Not the world domination bit, the bit the sounds like it might actually be true.) I definitely went through a phase of not thinking I'd do lit.

Same here Three months before applying I was set on Fine Art. Like Chaiteafairy mentioned, I then realised I wanted to do something more academic first. Seeing as I'd always loved and did well in literature, that's what I went for - but I think, like what archly mentioned about being a "crazy intellectual who never leaves their room" - I'll need to be yanked out of my room too, for being a bit of an artsy hermit.

Guys, as far as I know this only applies to single honours kids, but are you going to choose Victorian or American?

I really don't know which to do.

Artsy hermitage for the win!

I know I'm going to need people to drag me out of my room as well. I try to be sociable, I really do, but... ahaha, sometimes it's just too tempting to tuck up with a sketchbook and doodle.

I don't know. Do we have to pick straight away? I was going to check what the reading lists were like & the members of staff and all sorts. I did skim an old reading list at once point, they were both interesting.

Unrelatedly, I was reading staff bios yesterday and they all seem so interesting. I wanna know who my supervisor's going to be so I can read up on them.

I don't know when we have to choose... That's my problem, there's aspects of both modules I really like the look of. I'd love to study the Brontes at university and if I don't take the Victorian module I don't know when the opportunity would arise again, and my parents seem to be keen on me going down the Victorian route, but whenever I've studied anything American in the past (admittedly it's not been much... I'm mainly talking about Tennessee Williams 'cause he's fantastic) I've really enjoyed it. Sooo I really don't know.

I already know who my supervisor is. It says it on my evision page somewhere, so you should have a look and see if you can find yours. Mine's Nicola McDonald.

I think I might actually choose to do the Victorians in first year rather than American lit. Thing is, it's American literature up to 1910 that you study in the first year, and I much prefer the look of the American module that's 1910 to the present later in the course (Frank O'Hara, Hemingway, Ezra Pound... ). The Victorian module might be the only opportunity I'll get during the course to study the Brontes and Wilde, as well.

Funny, that.

Upon closer inspection of the reading involved and further thought, I think I'm going to choose to study the Victorians in first year.

I really don't know which to go with.

All the American Literature I've read I've been thrilled by (and I'm gobbling the short stories, more or less), so it's got an appeal in that sense. I found Great Expectations hard work, but loved it once I got through it, and, of course, have a soft spot for the Brontes.

Anybody else been following the hair-tearing caused by Harper Collins (or was it Random House... oh, I can't remember) publishing a Twilight-esque cover for Wuthering Heights?

And yes! We should all meet for an art hermitage stitch-and-bitch type gathering, regularly.

I'm struggling to remember where to look for my accommodation offer (which room am I in again?) let alone check-out all the staff.

You make me want to pick up the glossary again.

Which of the Beckett plays do you think we'll be doing? I'm just... you know, reading slowly through each and every one of them.

It is also very good.

Regarding that twilightesque cover, I hate twilight more than words can possibly describe. they've made the dorian gray movie picture all emo-y as well. Grrrrrr.