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A crash course in British politics: An introduction (Week 0)
If you are reading this you most likely live in the United Kingdom. You might also, like me, be new here. As a first-year international student, I suddenly find...
Sound And Vision: Better Call Saul’s Perfect Montage
"The perfect song choice is instrumental in creating the perfect montage".
Work/Life Balance at Brookes
It is vital to recognise when to ask for help, and to know where to ask for it. Sharing a problem can often lighten the load of the problem. That’s part of the learning experience.
Striking the balance at university
"I wish I could be in two places at once, but as fun as this term has been, I am also aware that it has been packed that little bit too full."
Forget the Blues – It’s time for Oranges!
"I realised essays can be hard, but they can also be fun, and they can also be difficult, but then I can have a dance afterwards."
The Map to Happiness: Hilary Term and The Atlas of Happiness
I realised I slipped slowly into equating “productivity and achievement” with “happiness”, but in actual fact, there was so much more to it than that.
Out of the Frame: Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos
As long as humanity has existed, art has followed in its wake. Whether to tell a story, send a political message, decorate an environment...
Haute Kosher: meditations on chicken soup
During the pandemic, some of us have come to measure out our lives in Friday night dinners and matzah balls...surrounded by the people that we love, chicken soup sits at the heart of the little sanctuary in the week that Friday night dinner represents.
