Here’s what classic festive character you are based on your Sheffield uni course

It’s official: The festive season is almost upon us, with the impending defrosting of Mariah Carey. As the days get shorter, the weather gets colder, and the end of term approaches, many of us are ready to temporarily forget about our responsibilities. What better way to do so than to spend our days watching festive films? If you’re unsure which one to choose, then read on and find the perfect film to watch based on your course. 

Politics: David, the Prime Minister from Love Actually

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Starting with a no-brainer, David is the prime minister we all deserve and the prime minister many aspire to be. David would have respected the Covid regulations (made by him) and spared us partygate. David would not have resigned after 10 days as prime minister. Most importantly, David stood up to the USA when necessary instead of repeatedly being dragged into their nonsense. David would go down in history as the best prime minister to have served the nation. 

Economics: Scrooge from A Christmas Carol

It has to be done. Money-obsessed Scrooge’s disgust towards Christmas traditions could be applied to an economics student’s disgust towards everything that’s not economics. One crucial difference is that Scrooge was able to recognise his wrongdoings and redeem himself, while economics students continuously choose to be obnoxious. Economics students only celebrate Christmas for the gifts, and God forbid if they get a flimsy pair of Primark socks instead of money. 

Music: Mr (Paul) Maddens from Nativity

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Mr Maddens’ shattered musical ambitions and his current career as a primary school teacher show exactly what the future of music students looks like. Just like Mr Maddens, many music students must harbour a bit of hatred towards Christmas, considering how much of a chokehold it has over music for a good three months of the year. And it is understandable, but at the end of the day, just like Mr Maddens, they soften up, appreciating the holiday at last. 

English Literature: Clara from Barbie in the Nutcracker

If you thought I wouldn’t somehow sneak in a Barbie film, you thought wrong. Clearly, I’m taking the term “festive film” very loosely, but it is centred around Christmas. This Barbie film is based on the ballet The Nutcracker, which in turn was based on a novella of the same name, hence the literature connotations. Just – hear me out. 

Clara’s attachment to fictional stories, along with her naivety (Really? Running off with a stranger?) It just screams English student. There is also the added bonus of her ending up with who could be considered her fictional crush, a true reader girlie’s dream. Clara’s story in this version of The Nutcracker is actually a work of fiction, used by Barbie to teach her younger sister the importance of not giving up. But at heart, as Clara is Barbie, it can be taken as self-insert fanfiction, and what literature student doesn’t love that? 

History: Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof

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For a change of pace, let’s look at something that isn’t about Christmas. While Fiddler on the Roof isn’t outright a festive film, or play, as its plot isn’t centred around a holiday, it is still treated as a holiday classic in certain circles. The film follows Tevye, our narrator, a poor Jewish milkman who cannot afford to pay his five daughters’ dowries to marry them off. Throughout the film, Tevye often addresses the audience to tell his life story and explain certain traditions and why they follow them, making Tevye a great candidate for a history degree, including the history student need to info dump to a clueless audience. 

Law: Buddy from Elf

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This whole film will have law students across the country scratching their heads and thinking how it can be legal. Accidentally kidnapping a baby and deciding to keep him over returning him to the human world safely, raising him to believe he is an entirely different species, without bothering to check if there was a family lined up to adopt him, his existence being kept from his biological father. Did the orphanage not bother look for him? Did they just accept that this child had disappeared into thin air?

However, Buddy, in another universe, would have made a great lawyer. His knowledge of ethics, mainly the Code of Elves, seeking his father in New York, and even the mention of a paternity test. All signs point towards Law student. One crucial difference is that Buddy has a sense of humour, he is cheerful person, always pursuing joy, while law students tend to be dead inside and make jokes about equity law that no one but them find funny. Their idea of humour is a “working hard or hardly working?” exchange with their colleagues in the break room.

Medicine: The Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

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Born with a heart “two sizes too small” which then grows three sizes in a single day, along with his super-human strength, proven when he stops a sleigh filled with present from falling off a cliff, the Grinch’s condition would definitely be considered a medical marvel. Together with his altruistic aptitudes, when he saves Cindy-Lou twice, even before his redemption, something that every aspiring doctor should have, shows that The Grinch would be working towards a degree in medicine at university. The story was also written by a doctor, (different type but still counts), which is an added bonus.