We’ve likely all been hit by the winter blues. That dull, groggy feeling that washes over you and keeps you in bed, tired and unmotivated. For sufferers of mental illnesses like anxiety and depression, the weather and the seasons can often affect the severity of their illnesses. This can often be linked to SAD – […]
Finding your first student home can be both exciting and demanding. Leaving halls means you are taking the next step into the realities of student adulting, and if you find a home you are happy in – it could be where you spend a lot of your time for the rest of your degree. So […]
As a student, Rome may not be your first choice for a holiday due to it being labelled as an expensive place for tourists to visit. However, if Rome is on your 2020/21 bucket list, there is no excuse why you can’t visit this beautiful city and finally tick one place off your bucket list. […]
Across the world colleges, schools and universities have closed, and moved to online teaching. Most universities have kept resident buildings and halls open for students who cannot go home. Although, as many as 74 percent of students are being asked to pay for accommodation they are not using. On top of this, they are paying […]
Visiting family (47%) and seeing friends (35%) top list of what Brits are looking forward to most post-lockdown, while almost a fifth can’t wait to go out for dinner (17%) More than a third (34%) of millennials have boosted their savings by over £500 during restrictions Extra time spent at home has inspired 83% of […]
When I first heard the term fast fashion, I assumed it was a good thing. As a student with a part-time, minimum wage job, the ability to buy clothes quickly, cheaply and easily seemed entirely beneficial to me. Designer trends are copied by high street brands, making expensive styles accessible to us with less-than-designer budgets. […]
Young, strong and the vision of health – on the outside, it would be hard to tell Tamika Harden, a personal fitness trainer from NYC, was struggling with the early symptoms of Coronavirus. Training over 200 women a week used to be a breeze, but one morning Harden awoke feeling as though she’d been hit […]
Perlego, the online library for academic and non-fiction books, has partnered with Barclays to provide thousands of students with free textbooks. With so many students unable to attend lectures and access books in libraries, online content has emerged as an effective solution to ensure learning continues during the coronavirus crisis. Through this partnership, Barclays is […]
If your slumbers have been turned on their head during quarantine, you’re not alone. As the UK enters its sixth week of lockdown, the real world is starting to feel dreamlike, and the dreamlike real. People across the world are reporting a huge increase in strange and graphic dreams amidst the coronavirus pandemic – from […]
The coronavirus pandemic has been unavoidably disruptive to everyone across the globe, with one particularly affected group being university students, but why not make the best out of a bad situation? If, like me, you’ve had your second term at university cut short, with your third term looking unlikely to go ahead at all, then […]