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Things I wish I did before 3rd year
Kevin Yu reflects on what he would advise his first and second year self to do Having come back from a 10-hour library session for the sixth day in a row, I finally get time to start writing a letter to my younger self. Third year has been a year of ‘firsts’ for me. From […]
Tipping the Bitcoin Way
Imagine for a second, a world where you never hear the metal ding of a dropped coin, never need to pull out your wallet for cash, or in fact never see a bank again on the high street. What if I told you that your student loan could come from simply running a program on […]
Call It What You Want: Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’
My reputation has never been worse for being a Taylor Swift fan than in the last few months. I have been repeatedly interrogated about the media feuds involving Swift, and over her ‘audacity’ to release an album critiquing of her ‘haters’. I think this hounding by my own peers says a lot about an increasing obsession […]
Rocket Reduce Reuse Recycle.
Elon Musk, rocket science, space travel, what more could you want? On the 8th of April 2016 the futuristic company Space X sent a rocket into space and landed it back on earth safe and sound. This is impressive in itself, since the whole space exploration thing came about rockets have been expendable, they’ve been […]
Album Review: Drake – Views
Views, originally titled Views From The 6, is Drake’s love letter to his home city of Toronto. Since the album was announced way back in 2014, Drake has dropped a surprise mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and collaboration album with Future What a Time to Be Alive. After two years of anticipation, […]
Track Review: Kanye West – Facts
Since ‘All Day’, Kanye West has focused on fashion rather than music and took a year before dropping his new song, ‘Facts’, on his Soundcloud on 31 December – ever the showman. While one would have thought his time away from music would leave his return revitalised and riveting, the fact of this matter is: […]
Album Review: Drake/Future – What A Time To Be Alive
Drake/Future What A Time To Be Alive 20 September 2015, Apple Music This album is the Watch The Throne of 2015. Two of the biggest rappers on the planet, Future and Drake, have come together to make the hip-hop community collectively freak out in anticipation and excitement for an opulence-obsessed album revelling in its […]