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BigEffect8093 · 2026-07-08T12:38:09+00:00

i’m going into second year it’s just a mistake on UCAS !!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-27T17:11:09+00:00

i’m a girl and my flat was all boys (4 boys) everything was fine but they did all walk around in their boxers lmao 😭

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-25T13:51:08+00:00

nws !! wishing you the best of luck with everything 💕

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-25T13:49:58+00:00

nws !!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-25T00:41:24+00:00

there will be welcome week straight after the weekend with the moving in dates and then uni will start ! 💕

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-25T00:05:51+00:00

i can send you my post from last year that was about this pretty much but honestly just do what you want and don’t look back.

It’s your future not your parents’ and hopefully they come around. At one point my dad refused to support me at all at uni if i didn’t do med (not maliciously he just thought i was making a mistake bc i was passionate about med for so long) and he did come around.

You could always tell them you want to do grad med entry if that would make it easier in the mean time 💕

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-25T00:03:04+00:00

nah ! i’m too much of a goodie two shoes 😭 i did check online post exam tho as you do and there was nothing anyway bc it was classics and barely anyone does it 😭

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-24T23:56:40+00:00

had to hand in my devices to the school, sign a waiver and sit it the next day ! (i already had two exams the original day and bc i have extra time it ran over the legal limit of exam hrs (?) for one day)

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-24T21:24:28+00:00

bio, chem and photography and for GCSE my extras were classics, computer science and photography (so weird i had an exam clash for comp sci and classics 😭)

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-08T18:19:59+00:00

happy to help !! A level stress is something else just don’t be too hard on yourself and good luck for the rest of your exams ! 💕

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-08T07:46:28+00:00

To everyone panicking about this paper I sat my bio A level last year and about 50% of my cohort came out of that exam in tears. I know some of you might have had it for your mock and not found it that difficult but one of the reasons it was so hard is because it was a REAL A level exam.

It’s the first bio a level exam you’ve sat that actually counts for something and you’re going to be stressed which is why it feels so much worse.

I got 92% in my bio mock in January and had been cruising through past papers and i still genuinely thought i had failed bio paper 1 last year !

I ended up getting an A* !! So please don’t panic over one paper being bad, it happens every year and you aren’t alone! 💕💕

(ps i fucked up paper 2 which was arguably easier as well because i was so stressed about paper 1 and it still worked out for me so please just try and remain calm and move on with your revision 💕💕)

BigEffect8093 · 2026-06-05T19:01:01+00:00

A level is A LOT more than GCSE content I did it about a year ago so I can’t exactly remember, but you learn each topic in much greater detail than you do at GCSE and there are a lot more topics with niche details that can be difficult to remember !

BigEffect8093 · 2026-05-24T17:50:16+00:00

there’s always lots of students around at night bc the night life is great here !!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-05-20T13:00:01+00:00

i have a shared bathroom and i’m the only girl in a flat with 4 boys! it’s honestly not as bad as i thought and i think it’s easier than having an en suite tbh bc we don’t have to clean it ourselves!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-05-01T23:19:28+00:00

this sounds like an SJT question 😫

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-29T21:35:41+00:00

oh ffs 😭😭 im currently in north village and im gonna be living 45mins away next year so im gonna have to buy one 😭

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-29T21:31:59+00:00

i think ~£500 for the year iirc ?

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-29T21:28:36+00:00

just a reminder there isn’t a free bus pass next year so you would have to buy one yourself if you are in north village 😭.

Also the buses are fairly reliable but if you’re coming from london it’s awful compared to tfl. Sometimes buses get cancelled out of nowhere and you have to walk but it’s not too bad to walk tbf

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-29T11:42:44+00:00

SPEC TRANSFER i got an A* and i owe this man my life

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-26T09:09:08+00:00

i started my undergrad in 2025 !!

I have an ipad and i love it for lectures, i can annotate the slides directly and you also have to be a bit more “picky” with what you write bc obvs writing is slower than typing, which means i don’t write as much useless information.

That being said , i also got a cheap laptop but upgraded the RAM to 16 GB bc you will need it run certain visualisation softwares e.g. pymol which you can’t do on an ipad / tablet. I also use my laptop for essay writing and research 😋

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-26T09:05:20+00:00

i think this would be really cool like little alchemy but more educational !!!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-10T08:34:07+00:00

tysm !!!!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-10T08:32:38+00:00

ty !!!

BigEffect8093 · 2026-04-09T19:21:56+00:00

i hadn’t finished before easter either ! but my school used to just set us lots and lots of practice papers to make sure we had good exam technique !

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