I went to the university open day and I met a brilliant tutor who told me all about the Japanese cinema course. I came to the university and she'd left, you expect that, sometimes the tutors can go but I think at college, you go to college and the tutor's there the whole two years. I went and she wasn't there, I was like, 'OK fine.' Did my first year and then second year I went to do my choices and Japanese cinema wasn't listed. One of the reasons why I came to the university was for that. Sometimes that does happen. You'll come to university for specific courses and suddenly they won't be there anymore and that's terrible.

I wasn't very happy, I went to my tutor with some other students, I don't know, I think maybe that's another skill that I got, I became more confident, I didn't leave it. I thought, 'No, I came to the uni, spending my £3000 a year, this is why I came to this uni for this course and it's gone.' So I went and I was like, 'Why is it gone? I know that there's a tutor that can teach it.' This can't happen for every course because quite a few of the good ones that people wanted to do were also dropped but about five other students came with me and then we went to the Film department. I complained and it came back on for the last year. I managed to do it, thank goodness and then when I got to my third year the animation course was there still but that was horrible.

It's horrible to think that you choose a university for certain things and obviously you can't choose it for tutors because they can go now but the courses you think will be there if they're offered to you on the day when you turn up and then when you actually come through your first year and maybe it's a third year course, you wait two years and it's gone, it's just horrible. There wasn't really anything else that I wanted to do in my second year apart from that Japanese cinema course and because it was a joint degree I only do the one in Film anyway. I didn't want to do Women In Cinema because I already did it in History. I really like studying women's subjects but Japanese cinema was an interest of mine, I really wanted to do it. Also I picked a Japanese animation essay so I didn't do Japanese animation in the animation subjects, I just kept it with that because you can't do the same essay twice.

I just felt that was awful. I was really glad that I got that course back on but that's not … don't think that you can go and complain and it'll come back on. I was just really, really lucky but it's not the greatest experience if you go to an open day and you think, 'Oh OK this course is here, I'll definitely choose it because I want to do these two courses.' As I said, the reason why I came to this uni was because of the good joint degree but also because it had Japanese cinema and animation which were two subjects that I did actually know a little bit about, even though I'd never studied Film. To think that they could have been gone, it was not good. You want to study what you want to do, that's why you pay so much money to go to a uni and it's not great if the courses then disappear.