I’ve been thinking about writing a blog for quite some time now, possibly to satisfy some creative urge. The only catch is that I’m not creative in the slightest. So it’s taken me this long to start writing because I couldn’t think of what to write, or at least a theme I could write about at any length or with any expertise. But now I have.
Having grown up in London and attended state school (like 93% of us) all the way up to finishing my A-levels, I’ve just finished my undergraduate degree at Oxford and am about to start a doctorate at Cambridge in October. From my first term at Oxford, whenever I went back home I was continually surprised by the attitudes of friends and family towards Oxbridge. I wasn’t surprised by their views, whether positive or negative, but how misinformed they were.