5th January 2024 - Page 2 of 2 - The Glasgow Guardian



A guide to reducing your food-shop spend

5th January 2024

Bank account looking as unhealthy as your fridge? A guide to reducing your food shop spend. Checking the balance on your banking app after Freshers’ week can come as a bit of a shock. The money you splashed on a Pint of Fun at Hive with your flatmates or on shopping sprees on Byres Road ...


Five ways to use pesto that aren’t pasta

5th January 2024

Bored with pesto? Writer Yang Yang Cao explores different ways this delicious sauce can be used. Pesto pasta, that universal student staple. However, it goes without saying that no one can handle eating it day in, day out and week after week. Fortunately this tasty Italian sauce (made from pine nuts, basil, parmesan, olive oil, ...


Best day trips an hour from Glasgow

5th January 2024

Looking for a change of scenery from the hustle and bustle of Glasgow? Burrell Collection Starting off more locally, situated on the outskirts of Glasgow in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow’s largest park, the Burrell Collection recently won the prestigious title of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 (the world’s largest museum prize) in ...


‘De-influencing’

5th January 2024

How easily are we influenced? We, as a society have been inflicted with the problems of influencing since the Roman times, with gladiators being seen as the earliest form of now referred to ‘influencer’. Although this idea of the influencer has been drastically altered in the nearly two millennia since the fall of the Roman ...


Degrees and other difficult decisions

5th January 2024

What to do when you hate your degree To choose a degree that you truly want to pursue without any scope for doubt or fear is a rare occurrence. Drowning in a sea of possibilities,and factors of capability, future pay and stability – the minds of innumerous students are inhibited. The problem intensifies when midway ...


How to like being single

5th January 2024

Is being single a curse? Or is it a gift?  With cuffing season in full swing, being single feels increasingly isolating. Society places too much weight on my relationship status – it sometimes feels like strangers care about it more than I do. Pop culture pushes the idea that you are not whole without a ...


Are you over being whelmed?

5th January 2024

Relaxing is complicated. Countless Turnitin deadlines to hit on the same day, union socials you promised you would ‘show face at’, investing in quality time with your flatmates – it is no wonder why everyone is facing extreme burnout so early on in the academic year. The feeling of being overwhelmed can be brought on ...


An ode to Big Tesco

5th January 2024

Writer Frances Chorley shares her love for Big Tesco. Although there are many things I don’t miss about living in halls, Murano Street Student Village certainly had its upsides. Situated at a happy proximity to the Greggs outlet, and equidistant between two competing Lidls, it was a pretty good location for a first year student. ...


More than fine: Your guide to £6 (or under) wine

5th January 2024

A ranking of the best wines you can get for £6. During the great expanse of the university summer, I found myself on a middle-class holiday to (where else but) the south of France. Between the arduous tasks of eating prawns (crevettes, actually) and reading one page of my book a day, I went to ...