Uni’s Blog

Raw, Just Raw

Students get a raw deal, I think: raw like buttock surgery . Yes they have their problems, as every group in society does, but come on now, aren’t you forgetting something people? Yes, that’d right: students are also the future politicians, doctors and astrologists of the world OK, astrologists might not be much good to you in your day-to-day life, but what about when you fall off your bike and knock your teeth out?

A small minority of students are More

Pit Eater

I used to work in a call-centre, so I know what it’s like to be the guy on the end of the line who gets shouted at three thousand times a day. And you’d think that the insults get boring after a while, but they never do. Because there are so many insults out there it’s unreal. And the more people you get told to F off by, the more you realise that insulting people in a smart way is More

Some People

Some people simply don’t know how to punctuate their sentences properly when they speak and there really is nothing more annoying than that especially when you’ve been working with English grammar and punctuation for fourteen hours straight and the last thing you want to see is all your hard earned education and expertise slandered in the open air by someone who couldn’t care less about language and probably doesn’t even realize the aggravating effect that they are having on what More

Horse Racing Heaven

Spring is a beautiful season, the trees begin to bear leaf, the birds start to sing and there is a general sense of renewal in the air that can bring a smile to the grimmest of faces. What I most love about this time of year however is the four unparalleled days of excitement taking place in the South West of England: the Cheltenham Festival! I have gone every year with my sister, ever since her intial interest in Locum More

Good Things

People often debate whether or not going to university is ‘essential’. I am here to tell you that it is and it isn’t. It depends on who you are and how you look at it, of course. For me personally it was a great way to learn about different things which you can only find out by entering the institution that is university. Here are a few observations I discovered at uni along the way. Have a look and I’m More

Samuel Beckett Seminar

I take my seat in a small square room with fifteen other people that I do not know. The seminar for this first week is on Samuel Beckett. He is a part of my course and I will return to him in the coming weeks, but prior to this evening I was not overly familiar with his work. All I knew was that he had a certain sort of reputation; a literary playwright among other things…our tutor asks what we More