The best year you spend at university, could actually be the one you spend away from it; at least, that’s what I think shall be the case for me. If there was just one thing I could say to the First Years this September, it would be to look out for Royal Holloway’s Study Abroad Program. It offers exchange placements to places as wide-ranging as Australia, Canada, America and Japan. For someone who didn’t feel a full-out gap year before university was right for them, this is a brilliant compromise. My own additional year was at the University of Hong Kong.
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If you Google the name ‘Tim Minchin’ you may be surprised by what you first see. ‘Tim Minchin is a comedian, actor, composer, songwriter, pianist, musical director and huge rock n roll megastar’! Clearly a man of many talents, so it was an especially great privilege that I got to meet him for an interview this summer and get a little insight into the mind of the man himself....[continued]
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