When I hear jazz it opens me up like one of those anatomical frog diagrams in a way that transforms me into a vulnerable listener. Vulnerable, because unlike th... Read More...
You can never go home again, but the truth is that you can never leave home - Maya Angelou
I've been thinking a lot lately about what exactly a home is. Perh... Read More...
As January draws ever closer, now is the time to start thinking about what you want to achieve in your resolutions. Do you want to learn a new skill or perhaps ... Read More...
We’ve all been there. The building anticipation of Christmas, the cautious optimism in your family’s ability to pick out a gift that is both useful and exciting... Read More...
You need experience, but no-one wants to give it to you. The graduate job market is a bit like the start of Hunger Games. A Few incredibly rich people in ridicu... Read More...
Moving back to the UK after my study abroad semester brings with it many challenges. There is culture shock and deadlines in my future, but more than anything a... Read More...
According to the Oxford dictionary, the definition of the word Synesthesia is:
The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body... Read More...
As anyone who has ever rented a property will tell you, putting a deposit down on a new property can be an expensive necessity of the moving process. What’s eve... Read More...
The world of film and television is one which is still relatively new to the world. Perhaps not to us as we are afterall a generation who have grown up alongsid... Read More...
When it comes to positive role models for young people, someone I have always looked up to in the entertainment business is Dodie Clark. A ukulele playing singe... Read More...
We know how it goes. You start your term with a lovely student maintenance loan. Suddenly you are flushed with more cash than you’ve ever seen in your life – an... Read More...
Each year more and more students lose their wide-eyed hopefulness for the future as they find themselves facing a mountain of student debt. This puts a damper o... Read More...
Student Travel Money Offer with Post Office:
Preferential Rates for Students when purchasing Euro’s, USD or Chinese Yuan and vice versa.
No matter how you... Read More...
Every time I start a new book, I wonder where it will take me. Sometimes you have a good idea, like if the book is non-fiction and is about to tell you everythi... Read More...
If you're anything like me, after reading (and loving) Andy Weir's The Martian, the excitement of his new book Artemis is almost too much to bear. The wait has ... Read More...
The Good Place has ironically been introduced to me at a bad time as I'm in the midst of exam season and suddenly I have the perfect reason to procrastinate. Bu... Read More...
Few musical projects will ever touch you the way that Sleeping At Last's ongoing Atlas project will. The names of the tracks give the first clue as to why. Thro... Read More...
Being bilingual is something I have been brought up just knowing how to do. German and French was thrown about in our kitchen as much as the ingredients and, un... Read More...
The place where I write has changed on many occasions. Sometimes the days are long enough that the library becomes a temporary residence learning hotel, whereas... Read More...
Last weekend as I wandered through Amsterdam, I came across (quite randomly) a funfair in Dam Square. It was such a bizarre and wonderful sight considering the ... Read More...