Emily W

Hello! My name is Emily and I'm currently in my third year studying Psychology. After spending the summer in the USA I'll be coming back to my final year at the University of Leicester, so follow my blog as I take you through my summer adventure, my last few months at university and my final year dissertation.

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My Cruelty Free Journey

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on March 22, 2016

I’ve been a vegetarian for around two years now, and I always knew I’d go vegan (or at least attempt it) one day but I always thought it’d be after uni, because, you know, Dominos and limited money. However, my housemate has been a vegan for a while now and always says how easy it […]

Posted in Health, Leisure | Tagged 3rd year, cruelty free, leicester, lush, the cosy club, things to do in leicester, vegan, vegan student, vegetarian

Taking stock after exam results

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on February 27, 2016

My January exam results came out on February 10th but I know that some subjects have only very recently received theirs, so I think what I’m about to say is relevant to many. I’m not going to lie, but I wasn’t expecting great things from my PS3002: Brain and Cognition exam (I wrote about […]

Posted in Exams | Tagged exam results, exams, january exams, library, results, stress, third year | 2 Responses

Dave’s Comedy Festival

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on February 17, 2016

Did you know that Leicester is currently playing host to Dave’s (yes, as in ‘Dave’ the TV channel) comedy festival, the longest running comedy festival in Europe? How great is that? The festival began on the 3rd of Feb and runs until the 21st, and it has over 700 shows across numerous venues around the […]

Posted in City, Leisure | Tagged comedians, comedy, culture, daves comedy festival, europe, festival, leicester, Leicester comedy festival, leisure, night out, part time job, things to do in leicester, work

Last ever January exams!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on January 21, 2016

Happy new year everyone! (Bit delayed I know but I thought it’d be rude not to say it on my first post of the year…) On Monday I had my last ever January exam! I don’t think I can put into words how happy I am to never have to do another January exam again […]

Posted in Exams | Tagged 3rd year, Brain, christmas, clinical psychology, Cognition, essay, exam, exams, legal psychology, psychology, revision, stress, study, third year

Boxing day: the best day of the holidays!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on December 26, 2015

Did you know? Nobody knows exactly when the Boxing Day tradition began but, apparently, the earliest known record of it is in Europe in the middle ages (I’m getting this info from Wikipedia so do with it what you will). It’s called Boxing Day because, traditionally, servants of wealthy families, who obviously had to work on […]

Posted in Leisure | Tagged 3rd year, boxing day, christmas, exams, family, festive period, holiday season, holidays, relaxing, revision, tradition | 1 Response

Guess what? My dissertation is fun!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on December 12, 2015

Confession time: I’ve spent the majority of my time during my two and a half years at university hating and whinging about research, but this week I’ve actually found out I love (okay maybe love is a little excessive. I like very much), conducting my own research. This week I finally uploaded my dissertation study […]

Posted in Dissertation | Tagged 3rd year, assignment, cyberbullying, dissertation, experiments, mental health, project, psychology, research, third year

Stamping out the stigma surrounding mental health!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on November 30, 2015

I know it’s December tomorrow which means Christmas is coming and everyone wants to be jolly and festive, but today I’d like to talk about something very close to my heart: mental health issues and what we can all do to help get rid of the stigma surrounding them, (I promise my next post will […]

Posted in Health | Tagged anxiety, depression, mental health, mental health illnesses, personality disorder, psychology, schizophrenia, stigma, volunteering

Help, I’m an indecisive, soon-to-be graduate!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on November 23, 2015

Last week I had my first wave of panic about my future after I graduate next year. I knew this would happen (probably quite often) in my third year but I still wasn’t prepared. I ended up with about a thousand tabs open (slight exaggeration there. Is it even possible to have a thousand tabs […]

Posted in Career, Future | Tagged 3rd year, Career, careers service, decisions, final year, future, graduation, jobs, stress, third year | 2 Responses

Legal Psychology

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on November 9, 2015

This is definitely my favourite area of psychology so, last year, when I saw that it was an option module for third year I knew straight away that I would be choosing it. So far we’ve had five lectures of this module and it is just as interesting as I knew it would be. My […]

Posted in Studying | Tagged crime, false confessions, forensic psychology, legal psychology, option module, third year

It’s my birthday!

Posted by Emily W in Psychology on October 29, 2015

Well it was on Tuesday. I turned 21 (now I’m legal to drink in America a month after I got back. D’oh), and I had such a lovely day even though it didn’t feel like my birthday at all! First, I spent three and a half hours (and a LOT of money) in the hairdressers […]

Posted in Leisure | Tagged 21, Birthday, celebrations, family, friends, fun, leicester