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Worlds away

8th March 2024

Can friendship survive distance? My best friend and I are currently living the reality that we have both dreaded for the last twelve months: studying abroad. After two years of being separated by no more than a wall, we have both worried how we would maintain the incredible friendship that has thus far only thrived ...


Keep your friends close knit

27th February 2023

Smaller circles mean stronger support networks, or so Natasha writes. Generally, as I’ve gotten older, the size of my friendship groups have become smaller, although the number of them have increased. Coming to university meant that the singular, large friendship group that I had at school shifted to having a number of friends that I ...


BF’ or BFF’s: are platonic relationships more important?

27th February 2023

What does it mean to have a platonic soulmate and how do they compare to romantic partners? You hear stories of couples who sat next to each other in their first seminar, or were flatmates in their first year, or met at a football social and the rest is history. A history that’s retold and ...