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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf

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Blog Post #6

How does Haraway’s concept of cyborg challenge traditional boundaries? The cyborg is a mix between human and machine. In this situation it would be a figure that resists categorization that challenges traditional ideas. Haraway explains that this is because these traditional roles are a way to maintain power in certain places and people. This can relate back to technology in relation to race and gender. Haraway explains that humans and technologies are no longer considered two but we can see it as we already have technology within us. This can be seen as a problem for marginalized groups as they may not have the same access.

How are gender and white supremacy interconnected on the internet? Daniels argues that gender and race are interconnected on the internet, they can be seen as equal and not separate. Traditional roles and misogyny is often portrayed online such as women being given the role of mothers while also pushing white purity agendas. Women of color especially are targeted when it comes to doxxing, threats, and hate which is where the intersectionality is shown. This makes online environments very unwelcoming and inaccessible for people of color but especially women of color as it is such a hostile place to be in.The internet is never neutral and it has always reflected upon racial problems that go on in person. This is allowed because the discussion of freedom of speech comes into play so there are no regulations when it comes to these issues.

How can the internet be a place that reinforces gender norms? The internet and cyber world helps emphasize gender norms and stereotypes. This is seen heavily in video games and online art of men and women. Characters are sexualized, especially women, as they are a female character in a war game but they have the tiniest figure and the most form fitting and very small clothing which would not be helpful at all during a war. Same with the men being very big and muscular and being superior to the women. As well as the little remarks or sayings that the characters have reflect very sexualized manners. This can stop viewers from having a real depiction of what roles men and women serve and they should look. This is helping the narrative continue.

How can the internet be a place that challenges gender norms? Although the internet can be a place where traditional gender roles can be portrayed, the internet can also be a place where these roles are challenged. These platforms are representative of capitalist and patriarchal structures that gain from exploiting women but there are places where you can create art or your avatar as your own. You can experiment with the visual aspects and challenge these expectations. This would just depend on what platform you choose and what you decide to do with it.

A Cyborg Manifesto, warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf. Accessed 12 May 2025.

“Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights.” Rowman & Littlefield, rowman.com/ISBN/9780742561588/Cyber-Racism-White-Supremacy-Online-and-the-New-Attack-on-Civil-Rights. Accessed 12 May 2025.

(PDF) Gender, Technology, and Visual Cyberculture: Virtually Women, www.researchgate.net/publication/292492340_Gender_technology_and_visual_cyberculture_Virtually_women. Accessed 12 May 2025

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WOII: Week 09 - Cultural Materialism

Weekly Reflection.

From my earliest moments in life, I am already surrounded by culture, especially when I am raised with a deep connection to my Vietnamese roots. Culture shapes how I speak, what I think and even how I see the world. I understand that cultural recognition acts as a vital source of inspiration and identity. However, to advance from appreciation to a profound comprehension of culture's origins and functions, it is necessary to consider Cultural Materialism. Initially presented by Marvin Harris in his book The Rise of Anthropological Theory, Cultural Materialism is an anthropological theory explaining culture under the lens of three primary influences : infrastructure, structure and superstructure. In other words, culture is not simply ideas but an acknowledgement to the physical world. Culture is not a set of arbitrary beliefs and practices but a response to the practical problems and challenges posed by the environment (Marvin Harris, 1979). 

Following that idea, I perceive that understanding where culture comes from and how it works is essential for me to create designs that are thoughtful, respectful yet rooted in reality. For instance, my group attempted to produce a fictional good for an unreal world. However, for an almost opposite example, one work resonated with me is the Vietnamese animation ‘The Pacification of the Wu’, which is a real historical event. The animation demonstrates how material realities impact cultural perspectives. 

Culture is an evolving system rooted in real-life conditions. By looking through this lens, I have a better understanding of the practical realities from culture and strengthen my critical thinking, empathy and future consideration as a designer. In turn, I will produce work that is not only visually rich but also culturally relevant.

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References:

Cultural Materialism : The Struggle for a Science of Culture : Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (1979). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/culturalmaterial00harrrich

The Hunger Games (2012) ⭐ 7.2 | Action, adventure, Sci-Fi. (2012, March 23). IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/

Binh Ngo Dai Chien (2020) ⭐ 9.2 | Animation. (2020, December 22). IMDb. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13701998/

Hall, S. (2018). Cultural Identity and Diaspora. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/asiandiaspora/hallculturalidentityanddiaspora.pdf

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Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" is a seminal essay published in 1985 that challenges traditional notions of feminism by using the metaphor of a cyborg to blur the boundaries between human and machine, nature and culture. Haraway argues that our identities are increasingly complex, hybrid, and interdependent, mirroring the interconnected nature of cyborgs. Her work invites a reconsideration of political and social categories and advocates for a more inclusive and flexible understanding of identity and gender.

Manifesto -> https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf

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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf

Excerpt from Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto:

“The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence. No longer structured by the polarity of public and private, the cyborg defines a technological polis based partly on a revolution of social relations in the oikos, the household. Nature and culture are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other. The relationships for forming wholes from parts, including those of polarity and hierarchical domination, are at issue in the cyborg world.

Unlike the hopes of Frankenstein’s monster, the cyborg does not expect its father to save it through a restoration of the garden—that is, through the fabrication of a heterosexual mate, through its completion in a finished whole, a city and cosmos. The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Perhaps that is why I want to see if cyborgs can subvert the apocalypse of returning to nuclear dust in the manic compulsion to name the Enemy.

Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not remember the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection—they seem to have a natural feel for united-front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential.”

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, or maybe yes?? Either way, in this episode we’re talking about the 1984 film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and the movie that led to the creation of Studio Ghibli.*

Join us as we explore how Nausicaa subverts our preconceptions about sci-fi and apocalyptic dystopia, its depiction of humanity’s relationship to the natural world, and why we should stop trying to keep insects out of our homes and embrace them as our many-feelered siblings 🦠🐞🐛🐜.

*In the episode we say that Nausicaa was the first Studio Ghibli film when it was actually animated by Topcraft. However, Nausicaa was directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki and its success led to the creation of the studio. So apologies for that!

https://anchor.fm/liliannasprereadmediathek/episodes/Nausica-of-the-Valley-of-the-Wind-1984-e187dng

📝 Shownotes: 📝

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984, Topcraft) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/)

Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFll3aIbmo)

Warriors of the Wind poster (http://www.impawards.com/1985/warriors_of_the_wind.html)

N.K. Jemison on apocalypse (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/711829/pdf)

“Vulnerability, Survivability, Affect” (Judith Butler, Frames of War, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist2017-18/butler_j_2010.pdf)

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Donna Haraway, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=4649739)

Nausicaa in the Odyssey (https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Nausicaa/nausicaa.html)

“The Fantastic Masculinity of Newt Scamander” (Pop Culture Detective, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4kuR1gyOeQ)

The Gayly Prophet podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-gayly-prophet-a-harry-potter-podcast/id1447786261)

Cecil the lion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHGvxFAhE0)

Recommendations:

📺 We Are Lady Parts - Nida Manzoor (https://www.channel4.com/programmes/we-are-lady-parts) 

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Bibliography

KEY ARTWORKS

Beardsley, A. (1891). Salome. [black ink].

Arrivebene, A. (2011). Martyrium S. Dorothea. Accessed at  http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/

‌Lorca, G. (2020). La Cama Inglesa. Available at: https://www.guillermolorca.com/.

Doré, G. (1872). fall of the rebel angels. [engraving].

Fairlie, A. (1984). Baudelaire : les fleurs du mal. London: E. Arnold.

Fuseli, H. (1781). the nightmare.

Giger, H. (2020). HR Giger - The Official Website. [online] Hrgiger.com. Available at: https://www.hrgiger.com/.

Roux, M.  (1901) Mauvaise pensée obsédante

Anthromorph, 101 (2021), [digital portrait], 111 series, London [Online] Available at https://shop.playform.io/artshop?exhibitions=Unnatural%20Selections. (Accessed 10 February 2021)

  BOOKS

Sigmund Freud (2015). Beyond the pleasure principle. Mineola, New York: Dover Publication, Inc.

Georges Bataille (2011). Death and sensuality : a study of eroticism and the taboo. Whitefish, Montana: Literary Licensing, Llc.

Ligotti, T. (2009). My work is not yet done : three tales of corporate horror. London: Virgin Books.

This Fiction book by Thomas Ligotti is a tale of corporate horror. I fell in love with his writing style, his description of dark and also nothingness had a big impact on me. There is a poem which is an epilogue to this book (I have a special plan for this world) which is also beautifully dark and thought provoking.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1938). La nausee. Paris: Gallimard.

This philosophical novel resonated with me strongly, the subtle but haunting feeling of nausea that follows him through the book stems from Sartre’s existential beliefs. I found these feelings described very fascinating and unique, and these thoughts stuck with my threw my process of art making.  His writing is very beautiful and I am lucky enough to be able to read it in the original language.

Sigmund Freud (2015). Beyond the pleasure principle. Mineola, New York: Dover Publication, Inc.

Kentarō Miura, Deangelis, J., Johnson, D., Nakrosis, D. and Studio Cutie (2016). Berserk. Deluxe edition Volume 2. Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Manga.

Kentaro Miura’s manga style has been very inspiring for me. His strictly black and white illustrations are extremely impactful, dramatic and narrate his stories very strongly. Narration is important in my work even though I haven’t created a linear story. I feel that as a whole through repeated motifs, a story-like structure has been created and a unique narration can be noticed by each viewer. 

Tsing, A. (2017). The mushroom at the end of the world: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, London. 288p

Anna Tsing’s book was on of my main research points for my MCP and I believe that her writing has been the most influential towards my ideas after this research. The story of the mushroom growing back from ruin really stuck with me and the idea of interconnectivity in nature, and the cycles of life and death are very important in my artwork. 

  ESSAYS

Ginzburg, C. (1983). The night battles. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press

The night battles was a very influential text to me, reading about the reality behind witchcraft was very eye opening, these are themes that have followed me through my work. I have always been interested in magic and spirituality so understanding the dark reality of such matters guided my creation of imagery related to this subject. 

Haraway, D. (1984). A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism. University of Minnesota Press. [Online] Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf (Accessed 10 October 2020)

Bul, Lee. “Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” The Carrier Bag Therory of Fiction, 1966, doi:https://www.deveron-projects.com/site_media/uploads/leguin.pdf.

  FILMS

Suspiria. (1977). Produzioni Atlas Consorziate.

Suspira was a very special film in my research process. Since I trained as a ballet dancer for all of my childhood years this movie brought back a lot of feelings related to the horror behind such a beautiful art form. Dario Argento’s style and creativity is very breath-taking in this film and I feel that he represented a beautiful world through destruction and death very effectively. 

The shape of water. (2017). TSG Entertainment.

Guillermo Del Toro was also a very influential director for me. I have watched many of his films through my childhood to now and his fictive characters and highly emotional movies have always stuck with me. This has guided a lot of my creativity when I have been drawing creatures and monsters in my own work. I love that he represents these mythical/extra-terrestrial characters from kind and loving to unsettling and dangerous. 

Possession. (1981). Gaumont film company.

Abstract way of representing love and relationships.Reflects on the complicated nature of love and real relationships.

Noé, Gaspar, director. Enter the Void. Wild Bunch Distribution , 2009.

the cell. (2000). new line cinema.

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References

Jonze, Spike 2013. Her, video recording and DVD, Warner Brothers.

 Jonze, Spike. Her, Script Slug, 2013, https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/her-2013.pdf 

Haraway, D. (2000) in A cyborg manifesto. Routledge, pp. 291–324. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/transnational/haraway-cyborgmanifesto-1.pdf 

Dow, S & Wright C 2010, 'Introduction: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Posthuman', Paragraph, vol 33, no. 3, pp. 299-31. 

Bell, J 2014 ‘Computer Love’, Sight and Sound, January, vol 24, no. 1, pp. 20-25 

Hayles, K N 2010 ‘How We Became Posthuman. Ten Years On: An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles’, Paragraph, vol 33, no. 3, pp. 318-330.

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“We must admit that capital has been very successful in hiding our work. It has created a true masterpiece at the expense of women. By denying housework a wage and transforming it into an act of love, capital has killed many birds with one stone. First of all, it has got a hell of a lot of work almost for free, and it has made sure that women, far from struggling against it, would seek that work as the best thing in life (the magic words: “Yes, darling, you are a real woman”). At the same time, it has disciplined the male worker also, by making ‘his’ woman dependent on his work and his wage, and trapped him in this discipline by giving him a servant after he himself has done so much serving at the factory or the office. In fact, our role as women is to be the unwaged but happy, and most of all loving, servants of the ‘working class’, i.e. those strata of the proletariat to which capital was forced to grant more social power. In the same way as god created Eve to give pleasure to Adam, so did capital create the housewife to service the male worker physically, emotionally and sexually – to raise his children, mend his socks, patch up his ego when it is crushed by the work and the social relations (which are relations of loneliness) that capital has reserved for him”

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Notes on Val Plumwood’s ‘Feminism and the Mastery of Nature’

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist2017-18/plumwood.pdf

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University of Birmingham, Old Joe Clock Tower In memory of Joseph Chamberlain Here are a few facts about Old Joe: He’s the tallest free standing clock tower in the world A pair of peregrine falcons happily nest at the top every year Superstitious students believe it’s bad luck to walk under Old Joe before you graduate A double decker bus could fit through the clock face He’s not just a pretty face - Old Joe is also a water tower and services the University! Source: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/alumni/Currentstudents/OldJoeNewFriends.aspx

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Interesting Histories and Alternative Futures (Loughborough University)

13th June

☼ Furniture for the chancellor’s office, for the canteen, for the classrooms. Loughborough University has an interesting narrative and display of ‘thoughtful’ learning/teaching furniture

Darren Henley (Chief Executive of ACE)

☼ Innovative thoughts create us, our personal lives, the institution, the classroom, the environment of where we are situated within

☼ Surgeons and crocheters working together to improve the sewing of flesh after surgery (Flesh Party)

☼ Do public policies exist to fuel enjoyment and fulfilment in life?

☼ School education should be a window to the arts; to prepare for a career outside of automation, and provide arts education for self-discipline and hard work

☼ How do we infiltrate the arts into state schools to match the creativity that exists in private schools? Children from low income families mean they often miss out of the arts; how can this be addressed?

 Alison Yarrington (Art History Professor at LU)

☼ Stewart C Mason, In Our Experience

☼ Work Houses and school ‘honeycomb’ patterns in hexagonal shapes – Holywell School, Loughborough, (burned down, later rebuilt to the original honeycomb layout) – Derek Boshier Hexagon (Blue Moon, 1968)

☼ Eric Pinkett, outward looking education where schools travelled around Europe to perform, equipping the students with experiences and confidence not otherwise possible without the trips. Similar to Aldridge School music scholarship within state schools that maximises creative opportunities inside of a comprehensive system

☼ Eric Pinkett,Time to Remember

John Beck & Matthew Cornford

☼ High amount of art schools, 150 publicly funded (independent from university conglomerates) in the UK

☼ (Bluecoat, Liverpool, exhibition and upcoming at The New Art Gallery Walsall in 2020 on West Midlands art schools)

☼ Public views and the value of education

☼ >>> Art Schools and Public swimming baths <<<

☼ You need an old building that nobody cares about to provide radical education (where you can drill holes in the walls)

 Gillian Whiteley

☼ ‘At a time of critical need to provide alternatives to universalising authoritative factory models and deterministic curricula’ Robert Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies

☼ ‘The real revolution is internal… the most effective action is modular’ Herbert Read. Anarchism: Past and Future

☼ Education as mutual inquiry, anti-hierarchical (horizontal) community of artist scholars, creative experimentation, co-production of knowledge, every educational encounter as an opportunity for social change, co-operation and collaboration

☼ Judith Suissa, Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective

☼ Art schools argued the academicise of universities in the 60’s and saw set-ins, and occupation of Gilford College of Arts (1968) and saw the want of the art schools opening up into public space via democratisation

☼ The Free University of Liverpool – knowledge does not belong to anyone, and anyone can learn // PhD – Practice of hopes and Desires // https://thefreeuniversityofliverpool.wordpress.com

☼ The open arts access courses have disappeared, once very popular to the women involved within the 80’s minor strikes (such as within FE north-west Derbyshire). The women often went on to study art at university later on, but closure of courses has marginalised arts education off from such situations

 Emanuel Almborg (Artist)

☼ Combination of archival footage and current from artist present perspective, similar to Stuart Whipps’ work from Milton Keynes gallery commission, (2019)

 Carolina Rito (CAMPUS: Nottingham Contemporary)

☼ Exhibitions at the gallery have a pedagogical element or core

 Adam Sutherland (Director of Grizedale Arts)

☼ Ruskin’s Mechanics Institute: A Model for a Village Education

☼ Robert Smithson, The Artist and the Ecologist

☼ Local economies – copper, lace, and oak grown in Lake District areas, although this proved inadequate due to complexities of process in copper flat sheeting, and inadequate materials in oakwood for carving and growing conditions for lace due to so much rain

☼ A New Mechanics Institute: A Model for a Village Education

☼ Fully self-funded, every part of the building pays for itself

☼ Valleys across 4 cross-world locations as schools

 Dr Elspeth Mitchell (PhD Loughborough University)

☼ Art School for Rebel Girls: Feminist Pedagogies, Practices and Histories in Leeds

☼ Women outside of university in the 70s and 80s tended to self-organize into auto-didactic groups, The Pavilion being one example: 235 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 3AP

☼ “The girl learns actively to hamper like a girl” – Throwing Like a Girl: A phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality, Iris Marion Young (Department of Philosophy, Miami University) https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/transnational/iris_marion_young.pdf

 Hilary Robinson(Professor of Feminist, Art and Theory at LU)

☼ In a period of 2 decades, university has shifted from something that was funded through taxes to benefit the national economy, to something that is self-funded as it is seen as something that will benefit the individual’s career and future career earnings by indebted prior to earning

☼  THEN                NOW

    Students                  Customers

    Recruitment             Sales

    Supply                     Markets

    Courses                   Products

    Personal Journey    Employability

    HEFCE Strategy      Industrial Strategy

    Arts                         Creativity

Women are:

 ☼ Over 66% of arts students

☼ Just over 50% those starting to teach in art schools

☼  Only 33% of professors in art schools

☼  Only 25%-33% of exhibited artist

Annie Davey (University College London, Institute of Education, lecturer in MA Art and Design in Education)

☼ How values and practices that arse in one era travel through time and persist or are reformulated in radically different socio-economic conditions

☼ School (Schole): free time without destination and without aim or end – Truth seeking not profit-earning

☼ Civic Amnesia (Job Centre redone as a café in London)

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Katie’s guide to exam season.

As your Students’ Union, we want to be here for you whenever you need.

That is why the Little Pick-me-up campaign was started, to be there for you during one of the undoubtedly most stressful times at university.

Whether these are your first university exams or your final exams, there are some incredibly helpful pieces of advice to consider when doing your revision.

When writing this blog, I was trying to think of what I would have appreciated during exams when taking a break, and came to the conclusion that you can never go wrong with light humour to brighten your day with some trusty advice on how to make the most of your time.

So here are the best memes I could find followed by some advice on how to avoid these situations...

GET ORGANISED!

Don’t let this be you! We’ve all left a piece of coursework to the night before but you just can’t do this with exams! Get organised and practise, practise, practise.

1. Prioritise - you can’t know everything, find out when your exams are, look at past papers, find out where the marks are and work out what’s best to spend your time on.

2. Plan - Break down your revision into small chunks, work out what you’re going to do, schedule in breaks and decide the best plan for yourself. 

3. Get into good habits - Eat well, drink lots of water, sleep for 8 hours a night, work out where you work best and get some fresh air every once in a while.

Do as much research as possible to avoid any surprises.

Speak to friends who have done the exam before, look at the past papers so you get used to the layout of the exam. The best way I worked in exams was to do the past papers then to mark it and do research into the answers I got wrong.

This way there’s no way you can be surprised when you open the paper.

Focus on YOU!

Do not get distracted by other people’s revision timetables, the speed at which you’re writing the exam or when someone won’t stop talking about how much they have loved revision. No one really loves revision.

Keep to your plan when that’s your revision POA or when you’re in the exam.

This Koala was too cute to not include! Hopefully you already have the dates and times of your exams stuck on your wall, if not, the link is here, do it right now!

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/academicservices/currentstudents/examinations/examinationtimetable.aspx

Not sure you’ll get away with this one at University but wanted to include this as it made me laugh.

So main things to take away:

1)    Take breaks 2)    Don’t cut out all things you enjoy in life 3)    Don’t drink too much caffeine 4)    Get support from those around you 5)    Ring your family from time to time 6)    Keep things in perspective, exams don’t define you! 7)    Take a deep breath 8)    Don’t put unrealistic expectations on yourself, no one can revise 10 topics a day 9)    KEEP GOING! We believe you in and so should you!

We’ll be also brightening your day by delivering free fruit and water during exams so keep an eye out, you can find out more by visiting www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/advice/little-pick-me-ups

As always the Student Advice Centre is always there when you need them (book an appoint at www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/advice/) , Nightline are open for 24 hours during exams (number on the back of your student card) and the University Counselling service are there for you if you need some extra support!

Lots of welfare love xoxo 

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