6th June 2024
Necessary lifeline or procrastination reflex? Illness, bereavement, injury, medication side effects, jury duty, other: reads the list of ‘why are you applying for this extension?’ dropdown options. I search for the one offering the most plausible reasoning and least required evidence. Illness is a safe bet, I think, having left myself three hours left to ...
9th April 2021
We’re bombarded with people telling us to take it easy in the current circumstances, but what if you still have commitments and deadlines to complete? Anyone with access to social media in the last year will be well aware of both extremes of the pandemic productivity narrative. At the beginning of the outbreak, toxic productivity ...
6th February 2021
As we make our way through dry January, one student shares their experience of just how damaging the alcohol-dependent student stereotype can be. In the pre-Covid era, and perhaps even more problematically in this Covid era, the stereotypical life of a university student revolves around alcohol. This stereotype covers various different things from party-induced binge ...
