The pandemic has made much of what was once ordinary in society incredibly challenging. This continues to affect the institutions of higher education presently preparing the great thinkers and innovators of tomorrow: universities. To keep the halls and walls of advanced learning alive, institutions across Europe have rolled out extensive measures, committing themselves to keep […]
When life becomes too much what do you do? I know that I can’t do anything, I feel as if I am cursed. Food doesn’t taste the same. Netflix all of a sudden has nothing of interest on it and simply replying to a person over Whatsapp is an immense task. I’m lucky that the […]
Written by Chloe Bayliss – Student Writer By now we all know about how going to university this year is not going to be the same as it normally would be. With the situation changing daily, it is becoming harder to look forward to something that I fear will inevitably be part of my downfall. […]
Lockdown hasn’t been easy on anyone. I can say with some confidence that I don’t think anyone has enjoyed it: stuck indoors doing your studies, no freedom to go out drinking, see any course mates, or anything really. Locked in with the same difficult housemates day after day, I feel as though I’ve been in […]
Written by Emma Tyler – Student Writer In March, the Coronavirus reached global pandemic status and has since lead to an unfamiliar reality that the alarmist press in Britain has labelled ‘the new normal’. The vibrant city of London has become desolate, once bubbling playgrounds have become forbidden territories, and our National Health Service appears […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Corona Virus has created a strange atmosphere for me. When I packed up my stuff last Thursday and realised that the first year of university could be over, this created a depth of anxiety of how serious the situation was. Instead of heading into class and saying hello to my peers, and talking about […]