It’s not a pleasant experience, landing back in your home airport at 4AM in the morning, rubbing sleep out of your eyes, and knowing that you’ll have to do the same again in September. One week in, jet lag finally frees you up to fully appreciate the fact that you’re actually home. Home means not […]
A degree of fiction: the rise of paying for essay-writing
As University students, all of us, at some point, will have written essays. As much as we’d like to be able to boast that we can write one in two hours before the deadline, they’re not always the easiest things to write. The worst outcome of all is when you’ve spent more than two weeks slaving away on […]
A Fresher’s review, Christmas 2016
The year has barely started and I already have to pack my bags for a 12 hour flight back home. The first three months have been a roller coaster ride, adjusting to a home away from home, a completely new education system, and to international students, a completely different language. As freshers, we come in […]
Rating the rankings: A fall from grace?
Theo Stone Y ou might have noticed that we’re not one of the Top 100 Universities in the World anymore, at least according to the Times Higher Education findings. Whereas we once sat at the lofty position of No. 93, we’re now all the way down at No. 126. Worse still, we can’t even use […]