Posted by Faheema in Sociology on December 10, 2018
It is that time of year when everyone is slowing down and gearing up for the Christmas holidays. The city centre is well lit and campus has just hosted its annual Christmas market (the best food is eaten here!). But as a third and final year student, this point of the year is basically the […]
Posted in Career, Dissertation, Employment, Essay, Exams, Friends, Graduation, Holiday, Revision, Stress, Studying
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on June 10, 2018
My journey here at the University of Leicester started off in clearing process and lets say it is not a decision I regret! The clearing service was so simple, straightforward and quick! During the initial phone call where the advisor just asked what course I was interested in and what grades I had achieved, I […]
Posted in Exams, Holiday, Stress | Tagged Clearing, sociology, University of Leicester |
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on March 19, 2018
It is that time of the year when deadlines are fast approaching but we’re all braving through this knowing that we do not actually have to come back for any teaching, just exams we might have during May/June. But this also when we get the email asking us to choose our options for the following […]
Posted in Essay, Exams, Holiday, Revision, Studying
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on March 13, 2018
So, the past few weeks has not been without disruption for myself. Compared to some of peers studying other subject, us sociology students had the many ‘cancelled’ lecture, seminars and open office hours. For instance, out of my nine contact hours in the week six of those hours were ‘cancelled’. But, I guess this will […]
Posted in Friends, Money, Stress, Studying | Tagged staff, Strikes, Students
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on February 17, 2018
If you’re not aware but many university staff members, mainly teaching staff, are going on strike from this coming week. The dates they are striking are: Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd February Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th & Wednesday 28th February Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th, Wednesday 7th & Thursday 8th March Monday 12th, Tuesday 13th, Wednesday […]
Posted in Money, Stress, Studying | Tagged Money, Strikes, University of Leicester
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on February 5, 2018
If I was to be asked if I had any bad habits it would be that I drink too much coffee. My day does not start without it and my day is not complete till I’ve consumed at least another two cups from my morning fix. With the university being so centrally located, it is […]
Posted in City, Friends, Leisure, Stress | Tagged Coffee, leicester
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on December 25, 2017
Second year, seamster one – Done! It is quite hard to believe that at this moment and time I am quite literally half way through my degree. HALF WAY!!! Time has flown is an understatement. But here’s a quick run down of how semester one’s modules went down. Modules: We has 3 modules this semester, […]
Posted in Holiday, Studying, Uncategorized | Tagged christmas, Semester, study
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on November 29, 2017
Leicester is a great place to be around the Christmas period. You can really feel it in the atmosphere and most definitely around the city centre. The lights are up and get switched on as soon it starts to get dark. The little nativity decorations are up in front of the town hall, surrounding the […]
Posted in Holiday | Tagged christmas, leicester
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on November 16, 2017
“4 weeks till Christmas Faheema” is what I keep telling myself as soon as I wake up. I was under the illusion that second year would not be that different to first year but the first half of semester one was an eye opener to say the least. Not saying that first year is a […]
Posted in Essay, Exams, Friends, Holiday, Revision, Stress, Studying | Tagged Holidays, stress, study
Posted by Faheema in Sociology on November 2, 2017
It’s that time of the year when the Christmas holidays seem so close yet so far! But don’t worry, there’s just over a month to go! This time last year, as a fresher, we were getting grilled about deadlines from all of our modules and the library was starting to fill up with those writing […]
Posted in Career, Essay, Money, Studying | Tagged study, Unitemps
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