11th September 2023
A fresher’s guide to the first food shop. So, you’ve survived Freshers’ Week. What’s next, I hear you ask. Well, I can safely assume that by now you have either run out of the supplies your parents left you, or have decided that the diet of toast, Pot Noodle, and cereal may not be sustainable ...
11th September 2023
Want to have a bad time? Craving spiked cortisol levels, terrible relationships, and momentous regret? If you dream of a tense, awkward, and all-round unenjoyable week of overpriced drinks, awkward pres, and absolutely disastrous first impressions, then do not heed the warnings of those who came before you. Instead, prepare to launch yourself into a ...
28th March 2023
Rebecca Richard offers a counterpoint to negative stories about the pill. “Suck it up”. What we’re so often told as young girls navigating periods for the first time. We’re expected to sit the hardest exams we’ve experienced so far, take on extracurriculars, maintain healthy lives and friendships all the while wondering if the pulsing pain ...
27th March 2023
Is personal style dead? Style. We all have it. Just not all of us choose to express it. And it’s no wonder really, when at every turn we are being discouraged from expressing our own unique senses of style. So what is style? It’s how we express ourselves. In fashion, our personal style is how ...
27th March 2023
Genevieve Brown shares her suggestions for streamlining your beauty routine. “High maintenance to be low-maintenance” is a fun, recent TikTok beauty trend. The term accompanies videos of people offering time-saving beauty tips. The first video of this kind I saw showed a girl painstakingly contouring her face with fake tan so as to avoid the ...
27th March 2023
Aysha Sohail has some suggestions for those who need some relaxation on a budget! As much as things like retail therapy and going abroad are fun, plenty of de-stressing activities exist which don’t harm your bank account. One thing which helped me at the beginning of the pandemic was going for runs. Even twenty minutes, ...
27th March 2023
Rothery Sullivan makes the case for abandoning daylight savings. Daylight Savings occurs twice a year. We all feel the effects when the clocks go back an hour in the autumn and forward an hour in the spring. The intention of the time change is to preserve as much daylight as possible in the winter by ...
27th March 2023
Anti-phone policies can produce unexpected benefits, but can also lead to difficulties for clubgoers. Clubs exist for hedonistic immersion, and outside factors should surely be left at the door. But when you have a connection to the rest of the world in the palm of your hand, how can these ideals coexist? Disconnection is surely ...
27th March 2023
Haris explores how terminology in relation to promiscuity has changed. If you time-traveled back 60 years and called a man a “slut”, then a strong violent reaction would probably be gathered and chaos would erupt. People were much less open-minded and tolerant towards conflating terminologies used across genders. Of course, people were also much more ...
27th February 2023
Your handy guide to decoding difficult menus. Going out for dinner in Glasgow is a pleasure. The West End especially is booming with fun restaurants. Big or small, cheap or more expensive. As a broke student going out for dinner is not a common experience, but it certainly is something we all do much more ...
