13 Things you’d only understand as a UoL History Student

Apart from how to reference properly…


1. 6 hours per week of lecture time is almost too much

timetable

More free time than you can shake a monograph at…

2. No I don’t know anything about Richard III and I don’t care either

3. Making it through Perceiving the Past deserves its own graduation ceremony

4. Sunday night is essay writing night….

5…and monday is empty lectures day

Nice and full…

6. Getting millions of notifications for the books you put on hold weeks after the essay was handed in…

It’s almost like the library staff are my best friends…

7. You probably still won’t know 50% of your course by graduation…

 

8. Riding the paternoster. It’s like our thing.

9.There is no such thing as consistency in essay grading

Jubilation one week, despair the next

10. Third floor yellow: the home of essay writing.

Home sweet home…

11. Feeling like a hero when you do the seminar reading in those 15 minutes of ‘discussion’ time

 

12. Boasting about your lack of January exams in first and second year

 

13. The constant fending off questions of what you’re going to do with your degree

‘NO I DO NOT WANT TO BE A LIBRARIAN’