My second year of university was going okay, and I was well into it, attending all the lectures (even the boring ones), and doing all my assignments and handing...
For most people, the time you spend getting a degree will be short. When you first move into halls as a bright eyed and bushy tailed fresher, the 3 or so years ...
Anyone who is, or was once a student, will agree that university life comes with no set routine. You are free to wander around wherever you want, whenever you w...
I am currently four weeks into my new course, an MA in Creative Writing. Undertaking it on a part-time basis, I have found the experience of postgraduate study ...
When days go by so fast you don’t even realize the importance of uni and what you can actually learn for the future. You wake up, have your coffee, get dressed ...
The results for the Referendum for Scottish Independence are out and the media coverage on the topic is unrelenting. Scots are excited and apprehensive for the ...
Having always lived in an educational household, you can well imagine, education comes first.
My GCSEs were prepared for from Year 8 and A level timetables w...
Three key facts….
I love tattoos.
I love hearing the stories and deep personal tales behind tattoos.
I have no tattoos.
I'm good with pain, I appreciate art...
So you’re lying on the floor in the kitchen at 2am. You have lectures in seven hours. The world is spinning. And for some reason there is a traffic cone on your...
Starting at a UK university this September? Here are a few phrases that are indigenous to UK university life!
Don’t worry if you find these slang terms and s...
We go through our lives so busy with work, assignments, friends, that we forget to take care of ourselves. Not just physically, but mentally as well.
I learn...
Handing in my dissertation was one of the happiest feelings and also, one of the saddest. Saying goodbye to Uni didn’t feel like a proper goodbye and yet, for t...
It’s an addiction, a craving, an obsession. The need to be this ‘image of perfection’.
I can sense right now your eyes rolling to your thighs which may be ju...
Freshers’ week is the most anticipated week of the year for university students, whether you’re a fresher yourself or a returning student. It’s a week filled wi...
University, in particular Fresher’s Week, is an interesting time. It is a time where hordes of young people from up and down the country are crammed into halls ...
When you’re a student every penny you can save is important. After all, when you’re paying thousands of pounds to get your education, and you’re trying to balan...
Keeping a car at university is really expensive and usually unnecessary, so for some people your bike is your lifeline for getting you to and from lectures, th...
7 Super Easy Tips for Saving Electricity As you flick through your fresher’s week calendar and juggle the joys of lectures, love interests and fancy dress outfi...
The need for renewable or ‘green’ energy sources is one of the world’s most pressing issues. Fossil fuel reserves are running out fast, and we have yet to find ...
Summer is an awesome time for us students. The weather’s nice (relatively), and there’s no pesky lectures or seminars to go to. It’s literally just a licence to...
Life is rough for students. We're always close to broke, but because of lectures and seminars, we don't have time to take up weekday jobs in term time (or most ...
Want to gain some great work experience for a brand such as Microsoft and Windows 8 without even leaving your campus?
The Windows UK Brand Ambassador program...
University is not just about drinking, going to lectures and discovering that you can save on the washing up by putting your tin of beans directly on the stove ...
Having a house party? Take a look at these tips below:
1. First things first, get everything you don’t want seen, destroyed or stolen locked away. Be it a di...
Day one, week one, term one, just gone. I had to get out of bed this morning, still your plaintive cries I can hear them from here and believe me your sympathy ...
P.U.B, or Post.University.Blues as I like to call it. I apologise greatly if you have clicked on here thinking I was going to be writing about pubs, or some for...
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Having successfully slogged my way through a second year of my degree, I have decided to condescend in posting my precious word-thoug...
There is a common divide between the 'student' and those who left school and worked at 16,17, and 18 yet I am still unsure as to why this really is. A notoriou...
A recent study by Accommodation for Students found that 32% of graduates marry their university sweethearts, a pleasantly high figure. 81% of particip...