I may have decided to write this article in the midst of an exam related breakdown, which perhaps gives a good idea of how I’m feeling about my first-year exams. This is the first year since GCSEs, that my exams don’t ‘count’ for anything and finding the motivation to revise through that is excruciating. It’s […]
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Second year: a year in the life!
My second year of university has been a do-over; a nine-month resit, if you will, of the first one. There was nothing wrong with my freshers experience, per se. I wasn’t bullied in halls and I was lucky enough to avoid any issues with my mental health. Nor did I particularly have any trouble with […]
Give me ‘real’ life any day
It’s getting a bit tired, right? That bitter stand-off between the wise adult (“University’s a walk in the park: wait until you get into the real world!”) and the indignant student (“You don’t know, man, you weren’t there…”). Exams bring it all to a head, too: so if you like a good students vs. non-students Facebook […]
A lifestyle or a lie?
I have a guilty confession. Two weeks ago, I added Kylie Jenner on SnapChat. Well, I added Kylizzlemynizzle, which quite frankly sounds like the dozenth version of a Chinese whisper. Yet still I clicked follow. Still I decided to see what goes on behind the scenes of King Kylie’s life. It turns out, not an awful lot… unless you count head nodding, […]
Creatures in extreme places
From the crushing pressures at the depths of the oceans to the scorching heat of volcanoes, you would be hard pressed to find a region on earth that life has not exploited. For decades, biologists have been finding what they believe to be the limits of life on earth, and for decades, nature has been […]