All that is Pure
University of Leicester students are all short of time right now, what with it being the middle of exam season, so for this weeks’ blog post I thought I’d do something a little different. It’s a listicle, but it will be a short one with three suggestions for the purest, happiest things to get you […]
Life update: Dissertation Season is OVER
The end of April and beginning of May has been a busy time for me. I came back to Leicester after spending the bank holiday weekend at home in Suffolk and since stepping off the train it’s been non-stop. Leicester Vegan Festival & Handmade Festival It will reassure you to know that even […]
Five Shows to binge watch to get you through the winter
The weather outside is…frightful, deadlines are fast approaching, and you have almost scraped the bottom of your student loan as we speed toward the end of term. If you are a final year, you’re probably currently bogged down in graduate job applications (some of which you will have already been rejected from) and the thought […]
End Of Exams
Hey y’all. I hate to rub it in and all that but my exams have finished! When I say exams I only mean one. One, three hour exam about Screen Gothic. I never thought I’d be studying something so obscure at the beginning of my degree but there we go. Alas, it doesn’t really feel […]
Even More Revision
Hey y’all. I find myself knee deep in revision and essay writing so I haven’t really got that much to share with you. I’m not sure what I prefer really… An exam or an essay….This essay about protests in African-American Civil Rights hasn’t actually been that bad but I am not looking forward to next […]
Boardwalk Empire
Hey y’all. So tonight’s the night. It’s the last ever episode of Boardwalk Empire and it’s going to be an emotional one. Luckily the programme is based on real characters so technically I’m doing extra reading for my degree, right? One character in particular, Jay Edgar Hoover, is very prominent in my McCarthyism module. The […]
Dissertation: The Beginning
Hey y’all. So my dissertation has kicked off. I’ve chosen a question, found some things to read and a plan is slowly coming together. Thankfully I’ve been able to worm my way in to doing a question on Breaking Bad. Which, I might add, is by far the best TV programme. I don’t care if […]
‘The Butler’
Hey y’all Over the weekend I went to Bestival on the Isle Of Wight with some of my University house mates. It’s a music festival that showcases pretty much every genre of music. Outkast played on the Friday evening and I’m still in awe at their performance. After five days of sleeping in a leaking […]
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