Having to take everything home is a real pain, yeah; I'm really hoping everything'll fit in my mum's car whent he time comes o.O
Good luck with your revision and everything~ Have you got your exam timetable yet? I've got five exams next term, each three hours long (what fun), but they span two weeks, and I only have to be here for them, and then I can go home and... probably get a job, actually. Assuming I can find one, given I'll be competing against hundreds of other students/recently laid-off Zavvi/Woolies employees.
...I'm not sure why I'm being so negative. The fact I'm writing this at gone 4am might have something to do with it. Ignore me :)
Hehe, I spent most school bus journeys to sixth form hastily finishing psychology and/or philosophy essays; I think it's something everyone does.
I'm fairly sure most unis will have some kind of language department, and if you're going for modern European langauges (what are you planning to do? French and German? And are you gonna do the year-abroad-thing if you get the chance?), I imagine you'll be able to study pretty much anywhere you want. I had trouble picking out the unis I applied to because everywhere does sociology, but my best friend who's doing American Studies could only choose from a handful because it's such an obscure course.
I know absolutely nothing about the open days here, thinking about it. I'm sure they get students to help out, but we've only got our exam term left, so people are gonna be frantically busy and then go home. Maybe in September then? Who knows.
Yup, we lost the house we were planning to get ): Which was not only really sad because we were really looking forward to living there, but a real pain because we had to look everywhere for a new one. But we found one (down the road form the old one, actually) and it's being redecorated and stuff now, so I don't know what it'll look like when it's finished, but we've paid for it anyway and it's in a good place and the rooms are all pretty much the same size and stuff, so it's all good. All this house-buying (well, renting, but still) is so exciting and grown-up~ :)
October's still absolutely ages away, and you don't have to wait for an open day to go and see the uni; I went with my friend to see Kent and Nottingham on non-open days, and we still got a good feel of what the campus was like, even without a guided tour, etc. If you go somewhere over the summer, say, that has a uni, have a look around the campus, and come back on an open day if you like it. And I know a couple of people here whose first time in Canterbury at all was their first day of uni because they'd only visited their first-choice uni. Bleh; don't worry about it too much; you'll have a great time wherever you end up X3