Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on September 12, 2017
I absolutely love meeting friends for a coffee or a drink and Leicester is certainly not short of places to do this. Obviously there are all the standard chains Costa, Caffè Nero, Pret A Manger for coffee and Turtle Bay, The Orange Tree and of course good old ’spoons for a drink. But look a […]
Posted in City | Tagged Bars, Cafes, City, Cocktails, Coffee, Drinks, Explore Leicester, Food, Leicester, Leisure
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on April 8, 2017
So outside of my degree, my dissertation and my love of films and all things screen, I am a huge fan of theatre productions. A few days ago, I had the pleasure of queueing for five hours from 6am (yep.) to obtain a day ticket for Almeida Theatre’s 2017 production of Hamlet. […]
Posted in Leisure | Tagged Culture, Easter, Hobbies, Holidays, Leisure, Shakespeare, Theatre
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on March 18, 2017
So here we are again, at the end of another semester. There’s only another week of teaching left before Easter, and then it’s basically revision time for a lot of Leicester students! Instead of lamenting on passing time, I decided to dedicate this post to the things in my life – and in this […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged dissertation, Easter, Family, Food, Leisure, Motivation, studying
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on December 2, 2016
Being a third year, I thought it would be a good idea to use this platform and reflect on some of the experiences I had during my first year. Nothing like a good bit of hindsight for reflection! The first subject I thought to write about was accommodation. I remember coming to the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, Advice, Botanical Garden, Decorating, first year, Fresher, Halls, Leisure, Oadby, Room |
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on October 10, 2016
Today the topic is films! As I mentioned in my blogger description, I am a huge fan of most types of movies. It’s a part of my life that I’ve always had having been lucky enough to have parents that loved to sit down and spend an afternoon watching a good DVD (or VHS really, […]
Posted in Leisure | Tagged Cinema, DVD, Films, Leisure, Phoenix, Societies, Students Union, University of Leicester
Posted by Daisy in Biological Sciences on November 13, 2015
Sometimes it is easy to let the stresses of final year get on top of you. Life for me right now is very hectic; not that this wasn’t completely expected. Doing a year abroad means that the majority of my course friends have now graduated and believe me, I had been warned by them about […]
Posted in City, Friends, Leisure, Societies, Stress, Uncategorized | Tagged Catfish and the Bottlemen, Final year, Imagine Dragons, Leicester, Leisure, Sunset Sons, University of Leicester
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