Diary of an MW student – part 20

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Yesterday, Sun 6 Feb, the second-year MW seminar week began. It is affectionately nicknamed bootcamp by its prospective detainees, of whom there will be 44 in total. This milestone signifies the final approach to our trial date in June, and thus promises to be a gruelling gauntlet-run of mock exams, tastings, lectures, tutorials, pain, grief and trauma.

I am very much looking forward to it, for two reasons in particular.

Firstly, I felt as though I didn’t make the most of my first-year seminar programme, and am therefore keener than mustard to make the most of this one. I remember...