About Me
As a student, my interest and talent was English and Media, which I studied at GCSE and A-Level. I then decided to join the workforce rather than move on to university as I preferred to work my way up and build a career through a company, earning money and gaining experience instead, desiring a managerial role eventually.
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Why Media? As a writer, I am interested in the world around me and the different viewpoints, perspectives and outlooks and believe that the media is both an interesting and entertaining vehicle for exploring this. I enjoy content on face value as a piece of entertainment as well as appreciating its layers of meaning and interpretation upon scratching beneath the surface. It is such a powerful tool for telling a story and can set a vast variety of different scenes, creating a euphoric, shocking, emotional or hilarious experience!
Why English? English truly is like no other subject. Studying it from the word GO at the age of four beginning with basic grammar and reading Biff, Chip and Kipper, it delicately elevates you up to the age of 16 when it releases you into the big wide world full of knowledge needed to succeed. I chose English because it stood out from the rest. It taught me the meaning and importance of language through text analysis and literature while also offering creative freedom to write articles, reviews, opinion pieces and stories and escape to a whole new world: any world you desire. At high school, I always enjoyed text analysis as so many points stood out to me and it was a privilege to get them down on paper and explore my own interpretations. Literature introduced me to novels and poetry that I admit I wouldn’t have chosen myself but they actually became something of great importance that I now hold with great sentimental value. Jekyll and Hyde delves into so many interesting aspects of life at both the time it was written and life today. And I will never forget the poems I studied and chose for my exam: Ozymandias by Percy Shelley and Remains by Simon Armitage. My GCSEs were surprisingly one of my happiest times as school life, thanks to my work, peers and incredible teachers, had become this euphoric environment that combined with my home life to make 2018 a year to remember. Furthermore, my A Levels introduced me to additional areas such as linguistics and social protest writing and I found myself with an even wider panorama of English knowledge. I chose English because not only is it of great interest to me but it is also an incredible gateway to employment and adulthood. It is the metaphorical key to so many avenues all open to exploration. That is what I enjoy about this subject. There is no wrong answer. And that is an amazing thing.