At this point in the academic term, you’ve likely sent off your UCAS application that you spent months polishing, and you’ve probably started getting some offers from your chosen universities. Firstly, well done! Secondly, now the ball is in your court.

London is often viewed through rose-tinted glasses, widely regarded as one of the greatest cities in the world for science, culture, leisure, history and more. Many people hear “London” and feel that the grass is greener there, whereas for others it may conjure up the image of being packed onto a tube in the midday heat, a baby crying behind you as a man late for work hovers his malodorous sweat-patches a little too close to your face…