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Prelim PPE at Oxford TOP NEW

Jun 23, 2024 About 43 mins

Two days ago, I sat my last prelim exam and finished my first year of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Oxford. Right now is the most competent I will ever be at all 3 simultaneously, as I will not continue studying Politics in my second and third years. But with the academic year seeming like quite literally yesterday, the wounds of ... Read More

#Reflections #School #Oxford

William Penn: "An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe" TOP NEW

Mar 24, 2024 About 36 mins

This was the report I produced on my week-long internship as a research assistant for one of the many projects at the Faculty of English in the holiday between Hilary and Trinity of 2024. It was originally supposed to be around 2000 words, but I got slightly carried away and wrote almost 6000. My job was to closely read Penn’s Essay and analyse ... Read More

#Literature #Oxford

Romeo and Juliet Diss Track TOP NEW

Aug 01, 2019 About 3 mins

The other day I was telling someone how “if I ever wrote a love poem it would turn out to be a comedy poem”, which triggered my memory of this. After about 5 minutes of Google Docs rummaging, I found the rap battle (who the hell knows why??) me and my friend Daniel wrote for Year 9 English. If memory serves, we used W2S’ Diss Track as our beat (... Read More

#Literature #Funny #School

G'day!

I'm Michael, welcome to my website. I've been wanting to make one for ages, and have finally got around to it. How exciting! I'm not really sure yet which direction I want to take this, but you can probably expect a mix of blogs, more formal work, and everything in between.