An Ode to The University Of Greenwich
Many people will say that University was the best time of their lives. There is the epic drinking, the copious amount of people you meet and expanding your mind by experimenting with, erm, knowledge. Yes, knowledge. And by the end of your years, you have a fancy new qualification that makes your parents proud and your future employers impressed. Yes, University opens your life to a world full of promise and leads us down many paths.
I went to the University of Greenwich which was my home for a good three years. As well as meeting some of the best friends I have, some of the greatest writers I know and colleagues, Greenwich was also the birth place of this very website. Starting off as a final year project to showcase my skills, Cookie N Screen was a blog, a website and a now the boudoir for “The Mistress of Cult and Guilty Pleasure Cinema” (that would be me) Being pushed and honed into the film journalist I am today (for which you can be thankful or angry at,) my time at Greenwich certainly paved the way for greatness.
That's right, I'm an educated woman...
So apart from giving the guidance and housing this enormous talent, what place does University of Greenwich have on this website. After all, you don’t see other journalists celebrating their University or place of education. You see, luckily for me, the University of Greenwich is so much more than just a University. In fact, Greenwich with its old school vibes and Old Royal Naval College is just the place for, oh, I don’t know, some epic film locations!
Steeped in history and still looking for it, the University of Greenwich has been the backdrop for some of the latest movies. After all, it was the barricades for Les Miserables...
(if you zoom close enough at this scene, you can see a hungover me lolling out the window..)
The cafe for The Dark Knight Rises
And if you look at the new Thor: Dark World trailer, you will be able to see Greenwich cut in half and destroyed.
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The Old Royal Naval College has become one of the hottest places to set your period drama from the horror fest Wolfman to family adventure Pirates of the Caribbean. The gorgeous stone buildings, incredible riverside views and birthplace of time, Greenwich is a fantastically beautiful spot to place under cameras. Even if productions would make it impossible to get to lectures, (curse you Johnny Depp, curse you!) I can't help but giddy everytime you pan and see buildings I learnt in.
It was time I celebrated my own University. Because whether it was the pushing and shaping by my fabulous tutors or the connection to some pretty good movies, The University of Greenwich certainly created my career and film. Forever thankful, this location is simply brilliant.
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