loved the video. i did however spend the whole 17 minutes wondering if you were sat on the floor, kneeling or sat on a very smol stool

I've never seen someone so excited to talk about uni. He literally smiled throughout the whole video ( ps. I love this)

YOUR ACCENT IS GORGEOUS

On the pressure to drink thing I would say that yes, people at uni are (hopefully) more mature and there isn’t pressure in the same way that there is in certain social groups amongst younger teens, but in a lot of situations at uni, not drinking at all is something people really react to. And not in a “you have to drink!” way but more in a “why aren’t drinking?” and “don’t be a bore!” kind of way, which a lot people would feel is pressure. There’s a kind of attitude that fun involves alcohol, and that not drinking makes you stuck up or childish or just boring. If anyone reading this comment has had an issue with that, then please don’t let it get to you. You can have just as fun without alcohol, and as a bonus you’ll save a lot of money and remember everything much more clearly. If you want to drink, that’s completely fine, but if you don’t then that’s is equally fine. Alcohol is not a necessary part of an amazing uni experience.

*i hope you realise that Durham is no 1 in terms of English degrees, so it’s nice to know that Cambridge isn’t no 1 as it is so overrated, anyone looking for a degree should know that Cambridge and Oxford aren’t always the best*

Greetings from a time-traveller - I was at Cuths in 1956. It is still the best few years of my life (well among them). Best wishes, John

He is so well spoken.

I love your accent. As an English student, definitely goals.

“2nd year of A levels is the most stressful year of your life” Class of 2020 can’t relate

i’m glad you addressed the Russell group thing; as an arts student the top universities for my course often aren’t actually in the Russell group, and teachers/friends who aren’t ‘into’ arts hadn’t heard of my university back when i was applying. but it’s a brilliant place to study film!

count how many times jack says he is doing an English degree

Hi Jack! Your personality is lovely, you seem like a genuinely kind, caring and intelligent individual, with a side of pun-based humour. I've been watching your videos and researching Durham university since I went on an open day and fell in love with it. Your vlogs and chatty videos inspire me more and more to go there, and your revision videos are so helpful (especially the English Lit one, saved me lots of stress). I've received an offer to study Psychology at Durham next year, and I'm so happy! Keep doing what you're doing, it's really making a difference.

I think this is one of the most informative and helpful videos I have ever watched. I am in awe of this absolute unit.

i go to university and ngl this was still helpful

Jack Edwards!! You are so cheerful (along with Ruby and Jade) inspirations indeed :)

I was desperate for an en-suite bathroom. DESPERATE. But the only accommodation available to me was shared bathroom. I was not looking forward to it at all but honestly it’s fine. My accommodation is a house structure. So we have 3 floors with 2 bedrooms on each floor. And the 2 bathrooms happen to be on my floor. So it’s ideal. Also like jack said, you’re almost never waiting for someone in the bathroom. And something you won’t get if you have an en-suite, is a cleaner. We have a cleaner who does the bathrooms every week. Whereas if you have an en-suite, you obviously have to clean that yourself.

You should get someone on who does a STEM degree and talk about differences

i love that there's another person on earth who's excited about school and studying

this was very helpful for next year😂 the jacket looks so comfy!!

Just started watching your videos. Loving them. They make one a lot more comfortable!

14:26 please tell me someone else gets this Mean Girls reference 😂🌟

Loved this video Jack! So many great answers! Really helpful x

Yes! My question has finally made it to a Q+A, I feel as if achieved a lot in life now.

I LOVE uni so much. I’m so excited to go back 🤩 both oh my god,,, Student finance is such a sad scam :( there’s people I know that get max loan & spend it all on shite - takeaways every couple of days and misc crap for their room they don’t actually need. Oh and like £40 a week food shops (what a life x) Then there’s some people (quite a lot of people actually) ... (myself included) get minimum loan, can barely afford rent, never mind food on top of that 🤠 (I live off about £10 to £12 ish a week on shopping, thank u aldi) my parents don’t have the money to support me constantly, which I completely understand. Student finance genuinely sucks so bad,,, every student should get the same amount of loan, equality is equality and it shouldn’t be based on your family’s income. thank u for coming to my ted talk. X x

When applying to uni's did you have any other degree options you were thinking of? And fundamentally what made your final decision to do lit over any other routes?

Man, this channel makes Uni look so easy.

What a fantastic video jack!! It was so useful!

This whole thing was super helpful THANK YOU. Never knew the origins of the russel group.

Every couple of weeks he does an Aldi shop, but throughout the week he does Lidl shops :-D!

One of the things I'm most grateful for in my time at uni is that I was lucky enough to find some really good friends right away. Two of the girls I met in the very first week and immediately clicked with are still my best friends over two years later, and while the group around us has changed a little and gotten bigger, the core of our trio hasn't changed and I'm so so grateful for that because I struggle with making friends. We also have a slightly less concrete fourth member but she's my cousin so I didn't meet her at uni or anything - she's also only close with the three of us and has her own larger group we don't interact with same as she doesn't really interact with our larger group.

might see you around Durham next year jack! Got my offer to do English lit there this week! Watching your videos has made me realise Oxbridge really isn't the be all and end all (as a fellow reject). Your videos have made me really excited to hopefully join Durham next year! Best of luck with your exams :)

Thanks so much for this, you really alleviated some if my worries about uni❤ Now I can't wait till next year

Just want to point out that in Wales, student maintenance works a bit differently! Everyone gets 9k in maintenance but the more money your parents make the more of that 9k has to be paid back as a loan, and the less they make the more of the 9k is a grant which is not paid back. The balance of loan and grant is means tested!

You are saving my life with this

Loved this video , so usefull!! xx

Your courses sound really interesting! I'm a Belgian interior architecture student, but I've always loved history, languages and writing too. I would love to do something like art history or journalism afterwards...

Wow I started watching your videos in high school, whilst doing my a levels. Now I've plodded through my 1st semester of uni!

“no tears left to cry” joke of the year 😂

I just received an offer from Durham for English Lit💪🏻💪🏻 thank you for your videos, they are a huge help to so many people!!!!

Jack Edwards I LOVE how you approach vids. Love youuuuur persona and your service, good Englishman!🙃🌸💖

You answered my question Jack about staying on track with deadlines! Thank you!

merry christmas and a happy new year Jack!

I'm Egyptian, and really you helped me so much ❤❤ thank you!

Thanks for this, it’s super helpful. I am hopefully starting uni in September 😬 xx

Really helpful, thank you!😊

This is so useful!! So much of this information just isn't available anywhere and it's so infuriating, so thank you for filling the missing niche☺️

this video was really helpful, thanks!

"With great difficulty". That was me the entirity of my last semester 😂😭

This is such a good video for people that are thinking of going to uni or are in uni.

This video is a life saver I’ve been so worried about uni 😂

Thanks so much for the student finance bit!

Loved this video, i am going to uni studying English Literature and Philosophy so thank you for the advice!

definitely think this will help so much

Jack is so fucking attractive on so many levels. He's so clever, attractive, funny , caring, well spoken... the list goes on.

Your amazing at explaining things

it's 3am and i've done nothing this evening but binge watch your videos

Great video jack :)

The only thing I would add to this is check with the specific university first for how much each year contributes towards your chosen degree because my university (Queen Mary's) split it differently (10%, 30%, 60%). I know it's only a little difference but the best piece of advice I got before uni was to check the course out thoroughly before you applied. Edit: Students studying sciences seem so overworked. In the second year of my history degree I had lectures for a module every week in the Engineering Building because it had huge rooms. The class in their before us were doing chemistry (I think) and they kept asking for like 5 more minutes so they could pack up bearing in mind they should already be at their next lecture/tutorial by then.

‘Once every two weeks I do a big shop, I get the bus to Aldi... if I do need Lidl things..’ ahahahahh

This is exactly the video I needed thank you so much.

My advice would be try your best to befriend some international students ur never going to get a better chance to meet so many people from so many different countries and cultures

yes king!! i stan

I think all of your videos are amazing.

So useful!! Tysm x 🙌🏻

Such good vibes and insights, can't wait to start uni in UK myself 🙏🏽

i just realised we have the same black lamp omg

I’m a first year student at uni and this video was very useful! Thanks!!🤗🤗

Hope you have a good Christmas Jack! Thanks for this - my UCAS got sent on last Sunday and I have 4 offers already. Not coming to Durham though :(

I am starting University in London in September 2019, and I am so excited. The only concern that I have is that I will be 26, when I start my bachelor's degree in September, and I know that most people who start University in England in general is between 18-20 years old. I am worried that the age difference will be too much for some people to handle, but I hope that everything will work out in the end :-)

I loved this video!

Hi Jack! I just had a question about the student finance. Where did you get the information first? Did the school give you an introduction to it or did you have to find the information and set everything up yourself?

this helped so much 😭👏🏻

Wow, I really did watch the video till the end.

you might not know for certain yet, but what career do you plan on going into after uni? i’m thinking of doing an english degree as well and i’m just worried that there won’t be a solid enough job at the end of it. loved the video by the way!!

That mean girls referenceeeee👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks for you tips.. never stop it.. hehehe.. It is my motivation to go futher...

Jack, can u please do a video on how to motivate urself for a levels with all the stress and exhaustionn

Jack that is the best jumper ever

where is your fleece from👀

final year in Exeter, why am I watching FAQs? ...oh yeah, Jack....

Although I'm American and my university days are in the past, I loved the video. I will slightly disagree about working, however. I wish I hadn't, there's plenty of time in life for work. Enjoy university 100% while you're there.

Saw this link on twitter so over to watch 🤠

I’m too studying English Literature for my degree. Thank you ver much Jack!! this was really helpful. ❤️🙏

Great advice. What tips can you give (with regards to socializing) for students that are planning on commuting to Uni and not staying in student residence? Do any of your close friends commute?

my top choice programme currently is a four year degree in which the first two years are formative and don't count towards the final degree classification so that's nice too

It took me until half way through this video to realise that noise is your neighbour cutting down their tree 😂

I got all five of my offers back, so now its all down to getting the a levels I need!!

I saw the ‘& J’ in the background and thought OH MY GOD JACK HAS A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, HENCE THE & PILLOW! Then I realised it’s a single bed...

have an offer for durham for japanese and will be firming it if i don’t get into cambridge!! so looking likely loooool thanks for all these durham-centric videos they really help x

That sponsor transfer was smooth as silk boy

Hii Jack, your puns and videos are so fun-tastic (*insert drum beat*). I have two questions: did you ever consider studying law and if yes, why did you choose English Literature instead? andddd secondly, how did you find starting your blog and do you have any advice for starting a blog?

what he said about the insurance offer is such sound advice. I put my absolute favourite uni as my firm (Kent!) but when looking at unis, I actually didn't have any offers lower than my firm (because I realised Kent was my favourite very late). As a result, my insurance offer is higher than my firm (my head of year told me it was okay when I applied), but I very much regret it. Sitting my A-Levels right now, I have an extra pressure that none of my friends have- literally no safety net. Fingers crossed I've done enough to get my firm grades. 🤞🏻 It's not worth it. It stresses me to no end. Pick a sensible, realistic insurance offer.

What books would you recommend based on what you like and what you’ve been studying?

My friend is going to the same uni as you starting in September!

I’m in my first bachelor biomedical sciences (in Belgium). I wish that my first year was formative because I have exams next month and FREAKING OUT because everything is so new, this so much harder than high school (do love it though, would never want to go back to high school) and it it counts for a third of my degree!! (Well the entire year does, so these exams together count for 17,5%)

I was an Erasmus student in Durham two years ago, wish you were there, I would have loved you!

Really helpful :)

Outstanding video

Very useful my friend! c:

When I go to Uni (Sept 2019! I replied to my offers this morning!) I'll essentially be doing a degree in a year and a half because of placements - I'll be doing Adult Nursing at Coventry (hopefully!). Adult Nursing courses now are 50% theory, 50% placement because of the 2300, if I remember rightly, hours of placement and then another 2300 hours of theory I'll have to do to qualify and register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council! Haha RIP social life