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Originally Posted by Republic
Hello all,
I am currently on a gap year and will be reading Law at the LSE this Oct. I am heading off to travel the world in a couple of days and won't return until August, so my initial contact here will be very brief. I've not looked around here much yet, but I am excited to find this community and learning as much as I can about all of you.
I studied politics at A Level and found it to be the most revelatory topic I had ever considered. The gap I found myself in between sixth form and University left me with a wonderful opportunity to spend as much time as I wanted studying anything I could think of and I must admit I think I have learnt more in the last 7 months that I could have imagined. Philosophy, Law, Politics, Economics, Jurisprudence, Religion (from an atheists viewpoint) all cross through my mind at least once a day and I cannot wait to get to University and find people to debate/argue with.
A little longer than the usual introduction posts I have read here, but I lacked the time to make it shorter.
Republic.
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Have a fruitful journey, Republic. Is your name after the French or the Greek? Or maybe some other Republic. Glad to hear you can't wait to get to University. It will prove a hard road no matter what and you will be severely tested and challenged often and come out like a raw horseshoe from a furnace. Then experience will batter you into shape and you will find yourself happy to form some part of some whole, while remaining still a bright original thing. I am taking my analogy from Hopkins' fiercely beautiful poem about the blacksmith Felix Randal.
