Christmas, much like my student debt, has come out of nowhere this year. And, again much like my student debt, I’m trying not to think about it. Christmas shopping is an intimidating thing for students with £3.87 in their bank account (that much if you’re lucky!), and amongst the panic it’s easy to fall into […]
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Student Saviour vs. Student Sabotage: Sequins and patchwork
Student Saviour: Summer sequins This week’s student saviour is summer sequins. Finally, after years of hoping and praying, it is now acceptable to wear sequins not just outside of the holiday season but also during the day, and just in time for festival season. As well as glittering your face and body this summer, you […]
Terror in Brussels: the city on 22 March
On the morning of 22 March, I was at my home in Brussels. I can only imagine how it must have felt to those out on the streets near the explosions. To clarify, I am an International Relations student on my year abroad in Japan, but I returned home before the spring semester starts. I was […]
Student Saviour vs. Student Sabotage: Miscellaneous
Student Saviour: Backpacks This week’s student saviour is the humble backpack. This is the perfect practical alternative for all those who are tired of the bland leather designer; or, if you are like me, mock designer handbags that force girls with a bag full of uni work to contort their bodies sideways just so they […]
Student Saviour vs Student Sabotage: Return to the 90s
Student Saviour This week’s student saviour is a return to the 90’s. I’m not quite sure why it’s called ‘returning’ seeing as we seem to have been dealing with mom jeans and cropped t-shirts for a good two years now but, either way I’m glad it’s sticking around. As someone who fully identifies as part […]
Student saviour vs. Student sabotage
Spring Student Saviour: Victorian inspired fashion It seems like the fashion industry is running out of eras because it’s going back over a hundred years for this trend. Nonetheless, I love it. For a start, vintage is always cool and Victorian is vintage to the extreme. Plus, there’s an added bonus if you’re a history student […]
Let’s get avocontrol: Ramen week
Japanese cuisine is fantastic for its freshness and speed. In restaurants like the insanely successful Wagamama, you will receive your meal as soon as it’s completed to ensure supreme flavour; that’s why you’re usually the unlucky one, glaring in envy at your companion scoffing down their yaki soba. Ramens are messy, playful, and they sparkle […]
Exe-ploring: The Middle Finger tour
Christmas is a strange time for walking around the city. The festively illuminated streets are made to look so much more inviting than usual. But, why is this so strange; surely every street is designed to beckon you down it? Surely every shop is always trying to entice you in, all year round? Well, no. […]
Exe-ploring: How to throw the perfect sushi night
Hello Exe-plorers! I should start by apologising for the absence of Exe-plore last week. To cut a long story short, I was invited for dinner at the house of a group of people with whom I am hoping to live next year. After the meal I very quickly began to feel unwell, and not long […]
Exe-ploring: North Street, Picturehouse Cinema, and Bonhay walks
I woke last Saturday to the usual morning stirrings within the house – Max getting up to make an obscenely middle class breakfast (that day I think it was roasted tofu and avocado and quinoa salad, or something equally preposterous), Liz groaning her way through an all night in ‘Top-Top’ hangover, and Theo’s one-night-stand quietly […]