Visiting family (47%) and seeing friends (35%) top list of what Brits are looking forward to most post-lockdown, while almost a fifth can’t wait to go out for dinner (17%) More than a third (34%) of millennials have boosted their savings by over £500 during restrictions Extra time spent at home has inspired 83% of […]
When I first heard the term fast fashion, I assumed it was a good thing. As a student with a part-time, minimum wage job, the ability to buy clothes quickly, cheaply and easily seemed entirely beneficial to me. Designer trends are copied by high street brands, making expensive styles accessible to us with less-than-designer budgets. […]
Young, strong and the vision of health – on the outside, it would be hard to tell Tamika Harden, a personal fitness trainer from NYC, was struggling with the early symptoms of Coronavirus. Training over 200 women a week used to be a breeze, but one morning Harden awoke feeling as though she’d been hit […]
Perlego, the online library for academic and non-fiction books, has partnered with Barclays to provide thousands of students with free textbooks. With so many students unable to attend lectures and access books in libraries, online content has emerged as an effective solution to ensure learning continues during the coronavirus crisis. Through this partnership, Barclays is […]
If your slumbers have been turned on their head during quarantine, you’re not alone. As the UK enters its sixth week of lockdown, the real world is starting to feel dreamlike, and the dreamlike real. People across the world are reporting a huge increase in strange and graphic dreams amidst the coronavirus pandemic – from […]
The coronavirus pandemic has been unavoidably disruptive to everyone across the globe, with one particularly affected group being university students, but why not make the best out of a bad situation? If, like me, you’ve had your second term at university cut short, with your third term looking unlikely to go ahead at all, then […]
The summer before I started university, I spent days on end trying to plough through the extensive reading list given to me by the English Literature department to which I was about to belong. I’d expected a long list, given the nature of the degree that I had chosen, but what I’d failed to anticipate […]
“Is there any condition that may prevent you from completing this expedition?” “Well,” I said, my voice hushed. “I have Crohn’s Disease”. Crohn’s is an autoimmune disease, largely affecting the digestive system but featuring a plethora of other problems – think psoriasis, blepharitis, malnutrition, and constant, agonising pain. Not much is known about Crohn’s, meaning […]
Welsh Cakes Food in Wales is beautiful – think bara brith, cawl, Glamorgan sausages… and the very best snack that you can consume in the country, Welsh cakes! Gorgeous little sweet things made from sugar and currants, you’re sure to pack on a few pounds after discovering these beauties. The Price Wales is one of the […]
The Corona Virus has created a strange atmosphere for me. When I packed up my stuff last Thursday and realised that the first year of university could be over, this created a depth of anxiety of how serious the situation was. Instead of heading into class and saying hello to my peers, and talking about […]