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Hello my beautiful friends! Today is the 23rd November and today I was rejected by Oxford. I am writing this on the day of my rejection to ensure my feelings are raw because I aim to be as realistic as possible through this blog. My rejection came pre-interview, so the rejected me on the grounds of my admissions test. I felt my admissions test went okay (not terribly), so either my judgement was wrong and my admissions test went awfully or the candidates were strong this year. Either way, this year was not my year. My real rejection email. Initially, although I tried to focus on the positives, I felt so upset and cried hysterically. I've had ambitions to attend Oxford from a young age, so to see my dream crumble in a moment was honestly heartbreaking, even if it is just a university. Also, I felt like I had failed my teachers and peers, who have believed in me and supported my Oxford application. I felt a sort of responsibility to get in, so felt guilty and embarrassed for...

Hello my beautiful friends! I apologise for not posting a blog post and Thursday study timelapse last week. As I briefly mentioned on my Instagram story, I was feeling mentally down, so felt unable to do the reading required for the blog post I had planned. This week (12th-16th November) is Anti Bullying Week 2018. I have decided to write this blog post to raise awareness for the issue of bullying because I have experience bullying at various stages of my life. This post will include my experience of bullying, focusing on how bullying affected my mental health and, more importantly, how we can stop bullying. My first experience of bullying, which I can recall, occurred during Year 5 when I was 10 years old. A girl, who was in my class, used to verbally bully me, making fun of me to other girls. I believe this triggered my anxiety disorder because I began vomiting before school due to anxiety during this time, although I did not identify this as anxiety at the time. During secon...