What’s that you say? A festival? In May? You heard correctly you dazed and confused student. For three days in May, thousands flock down to ‘London by the sea’ to take a break from hastily scribing down pointless revision notes for biomechanics or lesser known Latin idioms or whatever...
Now we’re all aware of the stereotypical, consistently repeated, university-course myths that plague some students for the entirety of their university career: Geographers only need colouring crayons to work on their maps, Film Studies students get to watch Finding Nemo whilst the rest of us study hard for our...
Facebook is that devil in disguise that we just can’t seem to get enough of. Nowadays, it seems that everyone and his mum (and let’s face it, probably your mum too) is on it. Whether you use Facebook for socialising, stalking your ex or candy-crushing to your heart’s content,...
The next day, up early-ish to travel back down the Portuguese coast to Faro. Getting into the hotel there, we learn that my uncle, who had organised it all, had in fact booked us in for the previous night. So, with some negotiating, he gets the 4 of us rooms for...
Have ever been stuck in a lift at 2:30am with 4 drunken Geordies? No? Well, I’d highly recommend it. If you’d indulge me, I’d like to tell you of how we became stuck in this predicament. It all started on Thursday 4th April 2013. Newcastle United were in Lisbon to...
Every time I lug my case to the station and wave good bye to my flat mates for the holidays, I do get a sense of tristesse. Another term is over, we’re all one step closer to the next set of exams and I won’t get to see my...
In all walks of life you will come across certain stereotypical individuals of whom you are simply powerless to avoid. That annoying phone salesman who is adamant they’re “not trying to sell you anything, but…”; The power-hungry busybody who has the rather simple intention of causing as much unnecessary...
So, you want to know what my daily life is like, do you? Well, considering that I’m a final year Physics student my uni life is inherently dull. Seriously, if you were to assign it a colour, it would be grey. With beige tinted polka dots (it’s not all bad.) I get...
As Lyly wryly noted in his work Euphues ‘all is fair in love and war’. To a certain extent he’s talking utter claptrap when it comes to football, or as our American friends call it ‘soccer’. I spent my Sunday the 7th of April 2013 watching my beloved Southend...
Waking up is hard to do. Hard enough after a night in with your flatmates watching TV (of course we have a license, who do you think we are!?), but remarkably more difficult when your alarm is ringing approximately two afters after you drunkenly set it. I honestly think...
