Thoughts on my course

What I like about my course

I get to study many texts I would read in my spare time anyway and it looks beyond national borders by studying texts in translation.
What I also like about studying literature at uni is that pretty much everything I detested about GCSE and A-level is left aside. I hate studying characterisation and narrative structure. Maybe we'll look at that in closer detail in the second and third years - if that's the case, I don't look forward to it...
My course is also interdisciplinary, drawing from other subjects. I'm doing two film modules this year and they're part of the literature programme...
English is a very varied subject anyway. Something I was told by a lecturer at Hull University struck me: that he often saw lectures on sociology, History, philosophy etc. which he found perfectly suitable to be taught in English. I'd rather have that and draw from a wide range of disciplines instead of the fucking dull and narrow prescriptive analysis of texts...

What I don't like about my course

Contrary to what my 'About Me' says, I am actually quite enjoying my course, but here's a few things I dislike about it.
Like any other academic course, you've got to tick all the right boxes. My essays have ranged from receiving Firsts to Thirds. It always does my head in to give thought to the structure of the essay and ensure that I'm answering the question. I'd like to have more latitude to do whatever the fuck I want. I guess there would have been more of that if I'd studied Philosophy...
The workload can be a bit too much. I'm a slow reader, so I'm often behind with all the ludicrous amount of reading set... I'm so fed up with it at times that I know for certain that I'm not pursuing anything academic after getting a BA. There are some people who are willing to tear their brains to shreds studying for a doctorate, but I'm never going to go through all that trouble just to add three letters to my name...