GRADUATION!
After a week, I am finally writing this post. I’ve been thinking about it the whole time and rehearsed it over and over again in my head over the past … Continue reading
UEA: The End
MY DEGREE IS OFFICIALLY OVER! 🎉🎉🎉 I haven’t been able to write more this month because of how busy I have been since I came back to UEA after Easter. … Continue reading
Why UEA?
I would choose UEA again a million times. And if I could, I know I would definitely stay here for another year (or more) to continue studying literature! I wouldn’t … Continue reading
UEA Campus and Accommodation Tour
Here it is, finally! I am currently on holiday in New York with my family but I’ve prepared something for you 🙂 If you haven’t been able to visit UEA … Continue reading
Goodbye Mum and Dad — Moving to UEA
I thought that leaving home and France would be a painful and sad moment with lots of tears, but to be perfectly honest, I was so excited. Since I got … Continue reading
Reflection on Being a Student Blogger
When I received an email at the very beginning of my first year of university, explaining that my university’s Marketing team were looking for student willing to start blogs and … Continue reading
BCLT Internship Update
My blog is not dead! Apologies, apologies! This is an extremely late post about something I’ve been meaning to write about for over a month – but I have an … Continue reading
UEA FLY Festival 2017
As mentioned previously in my blog, I had the opportunity to be part of the 5th UEA FLY Festival, a literature festival for young people, as a trainee! FLY took … Continue reading
Paul Nash Exhibition
I’ve finally visited the Paul Nash exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre! Unfortunately, I hadn’t been able to go to the opening this time, I’d never heard of Paul Nash, and … Continue reading
Antony Gormley: 3X ANOTHER TIME
Antony Gormley’s “3X ANOTHER TIME” demonstrates, once more, how beautiful and unique the UEA campus is. The three statues were installed on campus during the Easter break and I was … Continue reading
FLY Festival Traineeship
More exciting news: I’m a trainee for the FLY festival! The FLY festival is a festival of literature for young people organised by UEA and taking place in Norwich in … Continue reading
Travel Literature: The Turkish Embassy Letters
As mentioned in my previous post, I got my Travel Literature essay back! I got 73%!!! I’m so relieved because with most essays, I usually know I’ll get around 65% … Continue reading
Project grades and graduation update
My degree is over for good now! I got both my project grades back and I did sooooo well I can’t even believe it. I knew I’d probably done well … Continue reading
RANA BEGUM: SPACE LIGHT COLOUR
I really wished I’d managed to write this post as soon as the exhibition opened but as you can see, I have been incredibly busy recently – even with university … Continue reading
Discussing Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write the profile of an author of children’s literature as part of my application to the Fly Festival Press Traineeship. I had … Continue reading
KESHIKI
KESHIKI (meaning “landscape” in Japanese) is the result of global collaboration and international effort. The series of booklets associates the short fiction of eight contemporary writers based in Japan, the … Continue reading
Big C Internship
Over the past few weeks, my life has been a series of unexpected and amazing news! To be honest, I still have trouble believing this is all real and worry … Continue reading
BCLT Internship
This post is the first of a series of excellent news! I got an internship with the British Centre for Literary Translation at UEA! I first heard of the BCLT … Continue reading
New Worlds: Science Fiction and Beyond, Project
Yesterday was a day I’d been looking forward to since the beginning of the semester, the project conference organised for the very amazing module I have mentioned in almost every … Continue reading
Science Fiction: Formative 3
Another formative assessment for Science Fiction! Like the previous one, I had to choose an article that I found interesting and that could be useful for my project and then … Continue reading
Great Yarmouth
In November, I finally went to Great Yarmouth (on my birthday). It was so empty but we got lucky because the weather was perfect! I really enjoyed it and plan … Continue reading
Science Fiction: Formative 2
Another formative assessment for Science Fiction! I wasn’t happy about it but it ended up being great because we had to pick a chapter from The Oxford Handbook of Science … Continue reading
Analysis of Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
So the title of my Cultures of Suburbia essay was: “The American Dream: tension between authenticity and artificiality in the post-war American suburb.” Yes — it is a very long … Continue reading
Science Fiction: Formative Task
For my very awesome Science Fiction module, we were given our first formative assessment (I hate doing them). It’s probably the weirdest one I’ve ever been given but after the initial … Continue reading
Cultures of Suburbia: Essay
Joy! Miracle! Relief! I got my Cultures of Suburbia essay back aaaaaaaaaaand I GOT 73%!!!!!!!!!! (Second best university grade.) Level of pride: 500%! I can’t say how happy I am … Continue reading
Nervous Narratives: Module and Essay
I finally got my Nervous Narratives essay back: I got 66%! I’m very happy about that and so relieved too! 😀 I really liked this module and already miss it, … Continue reading
Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
I’ve been meaning to write this weeks and weeks ago but never found the time! Today — a week after the Queen’s visit to this exhibition and a week before … Continue reading
The Beginning of the End
Well… The time has come, it is the beginning of the end. I’ve been dreading this for months. My last semester of university at UEA (and probably at university ever … Continue reading
Semester Over
The Autumn semester is finally over: I have finished my last project! I am really relieved about that although I am getting extremely close to the end of my degree. … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of a Literature Student
I remember applying for English Literature courses at university, not really knowing where to start and feeling a bit lost. My main problem I think was having no idea what … Continue reading
Third Year, Hectic Year
I haven’t really done a proper life update since I came back to university in September so I think it is time to do so… There are still three weeks … Continue reading
Anne-Sophie at UEA 