The best shows to watch to unwind from uni
If you’re anything like my friends and I you’ll spend most of your evenings chilling watching TV or Netflix. When I’m not watching a channel 4 show with the girls in the living room, I’ll be watching the latest crime drama with my boyfriend (we love a Silent Witness to get hooked on). I’ve put […]
How I unwind and relax amidst the pressures of uni
There are times when the uni bubble can feel like too much; you feel under a lot of stress and pressure and like you’re working yourself into a rut. You can sometimes feel this way whether you have numerous deadlines looming or a relatively relaxed work schedule at the time, it’s just part and parcel […]
Making realistic new year’s goals and how to achieve them
I’ve always hated the term ‘new year new me’ as I think it fosters the idea that the ‘me’ of last year (or twelve days ago) somehow wasn’t enough and that a new version is needed. I prefer the term ‘new year improved me’, notably less catchy so I get why it hasn’t caught on… […]
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 […]
Mental Health Update
Regular readers of my blog may know that I suffer from depression, and I haven’t really talked about my mental health on my blog for a while. With that in mind, this weeks’ post will be an update on my mental health. It’s going to be very frank, because I believe the best way to […]
Working While Studying
I’ve talked about my part time jobs on my blog several times before, and I firmly believe that the only reason I’ve been able secure a graduate job in the civil service is because of the transferable skills I’ve gained by working alongside my degree. So, for this week’s post, I thought I would talk […]
Burnout
As the American Studies blogger, it’s easy to see how the past ten days since the inauguration of Donald Trump could have provided me with ample writing opportunities. Whether it be his dismissal of his acting Attorney General for refusing to comply with his orders or his travel ban on citizens of certain, predominately Muslim, […]
Advice for freshers
It’s officially moving in weekend! I remember this time three years ago when I loaded my life into the back of my parents Renault Clio and they drove me to Leicester to begin what have been three of the best but most challenging years of my life. Through studying for two years in Leicester and […]
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