Return from the Continenent
So the time has come to depart from the land of beer and chocolate back to the city of whatever Leeds is famous for apart from the indoor market and the Otley Run. A time perhaps for reflection on what it is that I will be sorrowful to leave behind and yet what leaves me [...]
The Student Poor
I am £9,000 poorer. As I arrive to April, I realised I have burnt a £9,000 hole in the pocket of a pair of trousers I am yet to own. £9,000. In fact, if you include your student loan, around £12,000. £12,000. Think about that amount of money for just thirty seconds. You can cry [...]
Final Farewell
I have spent my year abroad working for HELLO! Magazine in Madrid, feverishly writing stories about Justin Bieber’s latest haircut and why Harry Styles cannot keep it in his pants. On top of my forty hour week, I have spent my time feverishly getting drunk, taking heed of the one euro pints available and the [...]
Just a Girl
Recently, I keep hearing the same type of story from friends over and over again. I hate to make a sweeping statement but there is a certain consensus in society that all girls want relationships. There is the idea that we stare at our phones waiting for your text, analyse over whether to put one kiss [...]
Pubes
A dog hair is floating in my cereal milk like spindly canoe on a lake. What with North Korea’s take on Toni and Guy, the forgotten plughole blockage we left in our shower before Easter, and deadlines creeping closer, everything’s getting a bit hairy. Everything that is, except the old down there hair. Yep, those [...]
World Doesn’t Owe You a Living
According to my mother in one of her ‘life lesson’ discussions, we as students expect to have the world handed to us on a plate. We are an ungrateful generation of kids who have been given every computer game, iPod and DVD, every hand out and every hand up we could ask for and expect [...]
Take a Gap, Yah?
As third year flies past at record speed, and thus the big step into the real world creeps closer, there have naturally been a lot of conversations of post-graduation intentions. Whilst many have plans of further education, graduate schemes, or mapping out the beginning of their career, it’s not uncommon to hear plans of a [...]
Sustainable Leadership Race?
Leeds University prides itself in its engagement for the Leadership Race, but are we engaged or just visually harassed by extensive realms of paper encouraging us to vote in a popularity contest? Ironically, this year’s Leadership race falls on Climate week. After tweeting my #disgust at the waste of paper used last week, I was [...]
Birmingham Banter
Birmingham. It is the place I called home for eighteen-years, and recently it was criticised by a fellow writer.Insulting our pies, low blow. It is a misunderstood place, I find. I might look at Birmingham with rose-tinted glasses, but it certainly is worthy of existence. It should not be consumed into the North or South [...]