12 Things only a UoL English Student will understand

1. Having to travel thirteen floors on the INCREDIBLY slow paternoster.

2. Looking at blackboard notes for a missed lecture and having to decipher meaning from nothing but random pictures on a slideshow.

why is she holding a small unicorn whilst crying? It’s a mystery

3. Getting a book out from the library that’s so old you’re worried it may have disintegrated by the time you brought it home.

4. Giving up and using Sparknotes after Reading half of the book you’re supposed to read for tomorrow’s seminar.

5. Spending roughly forty quid for an anthology that will be used for one module and as a doorstop for the rest of the year.

 6. Telling people that you’re going to become a poet when you graduate just because it saves time.

Gandalf? No it’s not Gandalf, It’s obviously Walt Whitman.

 7. Needing the ability to talk incredibly quickly when giving detailed presentations in a very short amount of time.

8. Looking like an utter fool when you confuse iambic with trochaic meter.

9. Arriving late to a lecture in Attenborough and having everyone stare at you disapprovingly.

10. Being told you will get your exam results next week then getting them roughly a year later.

waiting for results…

11. Being expected to know the Latin name for everything.

omg dis is so tru

12. Having a universal hatred for Simon Poole (who even is that guy!?).

The natural response to signing in to webmail seeing Simon Poole emails