Samantha Carr provides some guidance to the pre-exam crunch. “Will it ever end?!” we despair, as we approach our twelfth week running of the semester with no blasted reading week this year. I’ve discussed it with many people, usually at the library. This venue is background noise in my writing and life I’m afraid, and [...]
Katie Smith sees the light in the new term scheme. I’m writing this in an attempt to distract myself from the Week 10 blues. And I have a tiny suspicion that I’m not the only one feeling like this – almost everyone seems to have scheduled their yearly meltdown for this week. Unfortunate, but unsurprising, [...]
Claire Nelson considers the real reasons behind marijuana prohibition. Election day in America wasn’t only about the president. Washington and Colorado became the first two states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Iowa and Maine are in the works to follow. Interestingly, marijuana is still an illegal drug under federal law, meaning the federal government [...]
Katie Smith encourages readers to embrace foreign languages. I’m a language student, and a passionate (read: irritatingly excitable and self-righteous) one at that. I’m forever trying to coerce friends to dig down deep into their long-forgotten GCSE German vocabulary, or preaching about the beauty of the French subjunctive. More often than not, though, the [...]
