5 minutes with ... Emma Griggs
What are you up to these days?
I’m currently working as an editor and writer in the Marketing Department of a customer service tech company, which is actually a lot less complicated than it is to say aloud. I’m mostly writing blogs about AI and editing client-facing documents. In my free time, I’m playing video games, looking after my pet bird, and hanging out with my husband.
Favourite Uni memory
There’s too many! Reading the writing of other students and being blown away by how good they were. Meeting the people I was going to live with in first year and all of us just clicking so well. Grinding out our dissertations in the library for weeks on end and all the work paying off when we got the grades we wanted. Meeting and petting wolves! I mean, c’mon! That’s once-in-a-lifetime stuff.
Advice for new students
Firstly, don’t waste your first year: it really is the building block for your second and third years so it’s really important. And the second one: don’t give up. Once you hit second and third year, there are going to be moments where you just wanna stop. You’ll want to hand in essays that are “good enough” because you’re sick of looking at it. Don’t do it. Don’t give up when you’re that close to the finish line. Dig deep and put the extra work in. It’s hard but it’s better than being 0.1% percent away from the grade you want. Trust me.
Best thing about UoW
The city itself. Winch is beautiful, and the university is this gorgeous blend between old and new architecture. The city is wonderful and there’s always something different going on in the high street. The Creative Writing Department are this big family – your lecturers can really become great friends – and they all share this same fondness for Winchester that I haven’t found in many other cities. There’s just something magical about it there.
Guilty pleasure
Probably buying Magic: The Gathering booster packs. MtG is a trading card game where, in order to defeat your opponent, you have to reduce their life total to 0. It’s pretty strategic and the company are always bringing out new cards. Most people who play the game will buy individual cards online because it’s cheaper, which I do too. But I also can’t resist the allure of buying a 15-card mystery pack and wondering what might be in there. They’re a total waste of money because, 90% of the time, I’ll never use any of the cards I get. And they’re massively overpriced. But I buy them anyway because the packets are shiny, and I have fun looking at all the new, useless cards.
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