As I finish university, my thoughts are frequently caught up with looking back at the last three years and looking forward to my hopes and ambitions for the future. I just came across the blog of someone visiting L’Abri, which brought back good memories of my time there and reminded me how much I’d like […]
Today was my graduation ceremony, which means I’m now officially a Bachelor of Arts and no longer a student. It was a strange feeling to look around and see coursemates, some of whom I’d met during Freshers’ Week, which seems both just a blink of an eye and a lifetime ago. It was good seeing […]
Being a student has been a somewhat strange time of transition into adulthood. Just as leaving home for university was both an exciting and scary prospect, now leaving university for work is just as exciting and scary. Probably the biggest challenge facing me now as a graduand (funny word that) is the search for a […]
I got my degree classification today – 2:1, which I’m very happy with. Not quite as happy as I would be if I’d got a 1st, naturally enough, but it’s what I expected and I’d rather have all the extra-curricular experiences I’ve had as a student and a lower mark than have had a better […]
Well, it’s been a couple of weeks now since I finished university. I’ve been to Oxford to visit a friend, been to Birmingham for the Contagious training day, watched series 2 of Battlestar Galactica, applied for some jobs and continued work on my novel. Applying for jobs is a somewhat tedious process, filling out application […]
The time has finally come… I’ve now finished university. On Tuesday, I had my last ever exam. How mad is that? Of course, in these days of lifelong learning and the like, I may well find myself behind a desk scribbling furiously against the clock again at some point in the future, but for now […]
Christ is risen! What amazing news. How easily Christians get used to the idea that a man came back from the dead; how easily that idea becomes just a bit of cultural background noise, rather than a shocking, incredible claim. Knowing that Jesus was resurrected transforms our understanding of the nature of the universe we […]
In an hour I’ll be leaving Cardiff on the coach to Heathrow, and this evening flying out to Shanghai. I’m specialising in Chinese History this year and learning Mandarin, and Professor Greg Benton has organised for the Chinese class to go our to China for two weeks. So when I get back I’ll have plenty […]
I’ve been rather busy, what with the Christian Union mission week and various other exciting stuff, so I’ve not had chance to post to my blog much recently. But I’ve got round to editing what some of what I wrote in an email to someone about my L’abri trip for general reading on my blog, […]
I handed in my Creative Writing portfolio on Wednesday, and now have until January 29th before lectures start again. Yesterday evening I had some friends round to watch a video – we ended up watching Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam, which was rather strange, to say the least. There was also a meeting of those […]