Being a Mature Student and following an unconventional timeline

8th Dec 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

[this was first written for and published on New Grad, in August 2020]

a hopeless note of despair, or a dreamless slumber of lost motivation

10th Oct 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

It’s been a few weeks since uni started and I’m finding myself . . . trawling along, lost and wondering what to do. Even writing seems to be somewhat out of reach — I don’t know how to simply do or be anything, or exist. I’m fine but I’m just? I don’t know.

A Look Back on My First Term

9th Jan 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

if anyone had told me last year that i would be studying English Literature at one of the prettiest campuses in London, i wouldn’t have believed them.