Aakruthi Karri weighs in on the best study tips for incoming freshers
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Summer Blues
Throughout my academic life, I always thought of the last week of August to be the big Sunday. The last hoorah. The existential dread starts to kick in, it feels a little colder at night, the light late nights seem to become a distant memory. Nostalgia is a cruel thing that seems to hit us […]
Agony Aunt
Dear Agony Aunt, I’ve been with my boyfriend since I was 16. However, since arriving at uni, I’ve moved in with the most beautiful man I’ve ever met. I love my boyfriend, but I’m not sure how to recover from this passion. What do I do? Yours sincerely, Happily Dating Dear Happily Dating, Try not […]
Should freshers revise in the library? (against)
We all know campus gets busy, particularly during exams. Well, those of us who’ve been through exams at least once know. First years don’t. Perhaps this explains why they, yearly, descend upon campus for their oh-so-vital exams like fire ants. The library is hot, it’s crowded, and someone might die. Some freshers show up purely […]
A Haiku encapsulating Exam Stress
A page sits, half-scrawled with ink; the slight silence plays host to a haiku.
Should Refreshers be revived?
T he Students’ Guild revealed towards the end of last term, that Refreshers week – the week in which societies put on more taster sessions for people to try during ‘exam week’ in term two – was to be cancelled for January 2018. This wasn’t quite the traumatic/thankful/all-of-the-above news of the Saturday Lemmy coming to […]
How to be wise when you revise
The exams you’re dreading are fast approaching (sorry). But are you actually revising effectively or are you wasting your time? Are you revising at all yet? Are you reading this to procrastinate from the revision you should be doing? Lots of psychological research has shown us what is and isn’t helpful when revising, so here […]
Reading week, and why I will be wasting it.
Reading weeks are pointless, and I love them. As Halloween draws nearer and the days get darker and colder, that long trek to campus is looking increasingly uninviting, so what better than a week’s break from lectures for the sake of ‘consolidating learning and individual research’? I know many people view reading week as a […]
Fitness for the Mind
As exam season looms the collective stress levels of all Exeter students soars. What is the best way to cope with this increase in stress? Chocolate would be my first port of call (while watching Friends from the beginning again because now was an ideal time to start that again – procrastination queen here!). Though […]
Mental health issues at university
We all heard the claim “university is the best time of your life”, followed by “so just enjoy it”. The problem for many, many students is that it cannot be enjoyed. Instead, most days are filled with practicing fake smiles, creating and updating a list of excuses in our heads for why we missed the […]