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Any Brum lads in?

University of Birmingham, Political Science BA chap reporting in.

I'd show you my card but I'm at my parents for the weekend to discuss a few matters and pick up the rest of my stuff. Birmingham is 76th in the QS rankings and it does feel very prestigious. I've found that the people who go here are eloquent in speech, knowledgeable on their particular subject but peculiarly retain sense of norm, I come from a very poor school and this level of academic interest is unusual - sometimes discomforting for me. That aside, you tend to always feel at ease with everyone, heck even the big muscular folk who studied BTEC's and are now studying Sports Science are friendly likeable people and were total brothers throughout freshers.

I've been a draconian procrastinator throughout my entire life, and from posts of my peers in this thread, it appears I'm not the only one. To this effect I've had to install a rigid schemata of my daily routine. Every detail has to be meticulously planned and contingencies thought through the day before. After evening prayers (Sedvacantist), I meditate for twenty minutes over what I am likely to do the next day. I have a little diary in which I record all the things that need to be done and by what hour I should be done. I recommend everyone adopts this method, it is good at keeping you task-oriented throughout the day.

I wake up at 6 at the latest. At this point I either make food or fast till lunch. I then read for pleasure, currently some Quo Vadis, some Hoppe. I open up the Libertarian Alliance page to see if any new blog posts have been put up. I then pray at sunrise. Meet up with my Orthodox friend before lectures. We make sly politically incorrect comments throughout the lecture, raise very discomforting questions, criticise teachers we don't appreciate etc. After this we go to eat something, exchange notes and have a little debate with our wider circle of libertarian/right wing friends, and believe me, there isn't that many of us. I then either go to the library, or back home, read until sunset, pray again, read, write, wash, make plans for the following day and then sleep while listening to Millennial Woes or another alt-right figure.

I have to say, I've never been so productive in my life. For instance, I have numerous assessments that need to be done for January, these are ones that will have a grade put on them and will affect my results. Unlike everybody else I have asked, I've pretty much done all up-to-date additions to my plan, at this point lectures simply serve to refresh my memory and make notes on the personal approaches of the lecturers. Heck, I even tutor my room-mate to some degree, (although he will never admit this), and lend him my annotated copies of the political texts we are supposed to be studying. I think, if I wasn't already highly politically aware since ages 9/10, and been reading Rothbard/Mises/Tocqueville/Burke/Spengler since 12, I would be needing to put much more effort into uni.