12 Things You’ll Only Understand If You’re An LDC Student

Your timetable is cruelly likened to a blank piece of paper and you spend deadline week crying on Floor 2 of the library. Here is a rundown of all things LDC:

1. Managing to get lost in the Arts building even though it’s a very simple layout.

2. Secondary Reading= Totally Irrelevant Reading.

3. When it turns out the film isn’t remotely like the book.

4. Listening to the opinion of someone who clearly just didn’t understand the text.

5. Ignoring feedback because you chose a subjectively marked course.

6. Being told you’re not doing a ‘proper degree.’

7. The feeling of solidarity when someone salvages the point you were failing to make.

8. When your Wiki level knowledge of the text still goes down a storm.

9. The reaction you get when you reveal that, actually, you don’t really like Ian McEwan all that much.

10. Being asked what you’ll do with your degree.

11. The moment someone in a seminar mentions Derrida or Foucault

12. The moment Tom Rutledge begins to use his medieval voice…