• “T-R-E-N-T: We Are The Trent Army”

    Ah, the age-old rivalry between any two universities occupying a single medium-sized town – the posh wankers and the polys. But while it’s so easy to generalise and hate on our Trent neighbours, how much do UoN students actually know about how the other half live? Rebecca Harvey explores...
  • University Dropouts: What Happens When Your Course Isn’t Everything You Hoped For

    £9k is a LOT of money by anyone’s standards. But for a course you might not even like, it’s an even more staggering amount to comprehend. As university students, this is made all the more worse by the amount of work we all had to do before even reaching our...
  • Socumentaries: Christian Union

    Not sure if you want to take the plunge into the dizzying world of the University’s 200+ societies? Don’t know your Blowsoc from your Bladesoc? The Socumentaries team endeavours to sample as many societies as possible so you don’t have to. Soc-umentary – A factual article about a society,...
  • Are Lectures Even Necessary?

    University without lectures is like a gin and tonic without ice – the content is the same, but it’s served disconcertingly differently. It is what many think of as the basis of a degree (lectures, not gin). Before we flock to university in first year, we fantasise about lectures...
  • Five Final Top Tips for Freshers

    At the start of the week, we brought you an article on how to make the most of Welcome Week. Now that you’ve registered, made new friends and nursed one too many hangovers, Ellen Smithies is giving us a hand to give Five Final Top Tips for Freshers. So...
  • Nightmare Neighbours and How Not to Be One

    As second and third years begin to flock back into the hallowed streets of Lenton, it is important to remember that our neighbours aren’t just students. Zero Degrees West conducted a nationwide survey on OnePoll about if people in the UK really do love their neighbours. The survey raised some...
  • Student Security – Essential?

    So, Rothesay and Kimbolton Avenues probably aren’t the two most burgled streets in Britain; if a 2014 article published on an offshoot website of The Independent is to be believed, no postcode in Nottingham is even in the top 20 list of most-burgled areas of Britain. However, there’s no...