Listen up next intake, this might just be gold dust…

Ben G – I would approach the year with more of an openness to failure. The best way to learn is from making mistakes. I also wish I had spent more time picking Ian’s brain and asking him actual proper questions about typography.

nunu – I would  start more relaxed and with a playful mood that it makes me who I am. Believing more in myself and being more confident.

Fed – I wish i could have been more proactive and talk more to people from agencies a little bit more than I did.

nadia –  I wish I had done more hot-desking at the start of the year. It’s such an advantage to know what an agency/team’s culture is like before deciding on where your preferred placement would be.

Matt K – Not live in Leyton

Alex O – Early on I probably kept ideas to myself more, and didn’t share them in case others would think the ideas were bad. I’ve learnt that what is even worse is not sharing, because not only did I miss out on interesting opinions, but also, if I don’t share ideas, it’ll look like I don’t have any. 

Bea – I would have been more confident in my own capabilities and asked for more feedback instead of hiding work I thought didn’t deserve time.

Ethan – I’d be sure to be more open with myself. Relax more and enjoy the experience rather than being too worried about the work. It’s hard to keep your head up all the time at the start when it feels like you’re not doing great work. The work comes, you just have to go along with the ride.

Matt B – I’d probably no stress about work so early on in the course. There were really cool experiences and opportunity outside of school that I’ve missed out on because I put work first. And that work, in reflection, in pretty poor. 

Nick L –  would be a lot less precious about ideas for the first half of the year. And I’d write as many propositions as humanly possible from January onwards. It’s strange to say but quantity can be as important as quality sometimes.

Seb – Retrospectively, speaking from future me, I think throughout my career I’ll look back on not having any boundaries of clients/ brand guidelines/ budgets during the student book years, and regret not taking advantage of it more. Now’s the time to do crazy shit that would never run, and I wish I would have had that running in my mind throughout the course.

Owen – I would of worried less about making Marc happy, and worried more about making work that I liked. I also wish I’d argued more for ideas, and didn’t assume that everything should be killed after someone says they don’t like it