Readings are brutal for me this year. I've got about 20 books assigned as essential reading and that's just for my first semester alone. I picked comparative literature as my third subject purely because I thought it would be just like an easy version of English Lit which I'm also doing, and because it gave me a handy timetable, but completely underestimated the reading I'd have to do. A good few of my mates from first year have fucked off, and all three of my tutorials are packed with the usual GU hipster bores. On the plus side I've got a big fuckoff loan and I can buy lots of booze.