Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you something. After my interview, the, um, one of the Dons said to me, ‘Thanks for coming. The odds of you getting in to Oxford University is 1 to 50, but thanks for coming.’ That was how the interview ended. And I thought, ‘Cheers mate.’ – [laughs!].
I just thought ‘Ah, forget this. It was a good train ride at least. You know what I mean? I got to come out of London for a second.
So when I read that I’d been accepted, in my mind I was like, ‘How the heck did I get into that!?’ And then I got into, ‘with’ a scholarship as well!? I thought, ‘This is like, this is a joke! Is this is a dream? Who sent this letter!?’. I couldn’t believe it. And obviously I was very happy.
If I didn’t get in to Oxford University, I would have still gone to somewhere else to do what I wanted to do and to learn what I wanted to learn. But yeah, I think it’s about following your passion really. Not letting people tell you what you ‘can’ and you ‘can’t’ do. If you realise that you can do it and you know, you’re trying it and you’re getting results and you want to keep trying it. That is really what life is, really enjoying yourself. Doing what you’re good at.