You might know it as ITV’s attempt to relight the fire that burned so brightly in our hearts for Blind Date. You might know it as the crass, anti-intellectual s...
When I am not accidentally gluing my own eyelashes together or tripping over the empty tubs of houmous in my room, I’m often thinking about how evolved we are. ...
The Former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest Star, Stan Collymore, Is Right: The Working Class Isn’t Represented In Sports Journalism
Good god, Twitter and sp...
Being from a small town ‘down south’, living with five boys and two girls in Sheffield, the only person without a broad accent and the oldest by at least a year...
Since i began university back in 2009, this topic has become increasingly prominent in the lives of the students i see around on nights out.
Now I am probabl...
I’d recently become single, when I stumbled luckily onto a University place. While my thoughts on Higher Education were definitely, ‘Well, it’d be rude not to…’...
As a student of Journalism and Media Technology I was contstantly told "anyone can be a journalist". And it's starting to look like everyone is.
Journalism i...
For the most part, it's easy to keep yourself at a healthy weight as a kid. You're running around, climbing trees, doing compulsory P.E at school and eating is ...
I didn't want to use this space as one for complaining but this is something which quite tickles me. This is coming from someone who catches the train several t...
With news that university applications have dropped 8.7% in one year across the whole of the UK, many will be speculating why this may be. Many, however, will ...
As someone who doesn’t talk about their problems, opening up to someone is a regrettable experience. The emotions you’ve pinned down and locked away rear their ...
So it's been just over a month since it was that time of year where we all felt it was necessary to make a few ambitions that we wanted to achieve by the end or...
So, I'm a third year journalism student as you can see, and I've already started applying for journalism related jobs even though I don't finish until June.
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There are various parts to the process of finding student accommodation. I shall be writing about the first, and most controversial - choosing your flatmates.
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With alcohol, comes unexpected wisdom. You can find a surprising amount of knowledge in the corners of your mind which you never knew you had. You become absolv...
I understand I'm writing this a few days late, but thought it would be enjoyed never the less. I've never noticed supermarkets advertise Chinese New Year as muc...
The other day, around mid-afternoon, I awoke in a somewhat crumpled/contorted heap on my bathroom floor. At first I was dazed, mildly confused as to how I’d com...
I'm not usually one to go into detail about which band's I like, as I generally like a variety of music styles.
However, after a trip to The Butterfly Cabine...
Just a couple of days ago, just as a walked into the pub I work in, a customer looked at my clothes with mixed curiosity and disgust and asked: “You mate, you l...
Yesterday I was making a journey to Wales to visit the parents. I found that I had an hour wait at Shrewsbury before my next train so I decided to pop out for a...
There's the age old saying of 'live everyday as if it's your last' and although I personally don't do this ( as sometimes it is simply to tempting to sit on the...
As students, we all know what we would rather spend our money on; certainly not books and food. So this post is dedicated to those of you who want your money to...
The recent Wikipedia ‘blackout’ alerted something in my mind the other day. I found about the ‘blackout’ the hard way, by trying to access Wikipedia only to rea...
As new students await the hefty new fees brought in by then con-dem government, I want to discuss just what you're paying for when you finally arrive.
At the...
How do you feel about being sent a take-away by a delivery boy with his mother’s name inked down his arm? Would you feel differently if it were a waiter in a Mi...
Every day I trawl though a list of different websites reading about the lives of girls just like me in some city on the other side of the world, reeling with je...