Last year, Apprentice mean-girl and former Royal Holloway English student, Debra Barr graced Royal Holloway with her presence once more as she brought in a full Windsor Auditorium in her bid to give advice that would propel student’s full speed into the competitive world of business. Packed out to the brim with management students on their knees to soak up a little of the entrepreneurial spirit, the event proved to be a success.

This year was a slightly different story. Laura Moore, Royal Holloway’s 2010 apprentice star returned to a rather flat welcome, exaggerated by a cliched speech and standard questions. There’s only so many times you can hear ‘believe in yourself’ before you feel the need to repeatedly smash your head on the pop up tables.

For me, the highlight of the night was her description of Lord Sugar, “there’s something about the way that little man smiles that makes me quite warm inside.” Aside from this, the speech was your bog standard attempt at an inspirational talk. In fact, if you google ‘alumni motivational speech’, you’ll probably find something similar to the evenings events.

Laura was probably the best looking girl on the series and so I’d agree it was nice looking at her for an hour. I definitely took time to admire her good style and had time to get jealous of her legs. Aside from that, the only motivation that seemed a little bit clearer was to be stylish and toned, not to delve into a budding career with endless business opportunities.

So thank you to the Career Service for an attempt to follow the pattern, but i’d rather not be fed cheesy quotes from a lucky Holloway student three years older than me. For some more original motivation, I could’ve gone to med.