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A Brief Memoir of My University Experience

So, it's over. About a week ago, I came out of my final undergraduate exam. It was a difficult exam that I was massively underprepared for, but I hope I did not do so badly as to require a resit, or as to have pulled my average down from the aim of a 2:1 to a 2:2. If that does happen, I'm aware that I kind of deserve it. I lost my spirit with regard to revising for Italian, so I basically didn't. Let's just hope to god things go okay re other grades. Well that was a depressing opening. I wanted this to be a retrospective about my time at uni and then a prospective about my future, but now I'm already a bit down from thinking about those exams. Dang. No worries, onwards with the show. I think what I'll do with this post is break down my time at uni as I remember it, year by year, reflecting on how I've grown. Then I'll consider the future briefly (tho I seem to do that often on this blog anyway). Here goes. Pre-Uni What bright and hopeful days -- on...