• How To Work at Home When You Really Don’t Want To

    These times have posed to be extremely unnerving for students. From graduations getting postponed until further notice, to the fear of a loved one being in harm’s way. I for one, had lost all motivation- finding myself in a comfortable sloth state with my lab report deadline looming over...
  • Easy Library Snacks

    As students, we all recognise the far too familiar struggle of going to the library and knowing that you are unlikely to leave for the foreseeable future, due to all the impending deadlines and coursework that really should have been started weeks ago. In attempt to make your library visits a...
  • Curating Christmas: the pressure to have the perfect festive season

    What is supposed to be, for many, a time of family, friends, gifts, and celebration, can instead be a time of immense stress and expectations. Students perhaps understand this more than others. The month between the autumn and spring semesters is considered a holiday, but there barely seems to...
  • The Kids Are Definitely Not Alright

    Stressed may be desserts spelled backwards, but nobody said university would be a piece of cake. When we took steps towards applying for universities we all knew that if we got in, the work would be more challenging – but the promise of freedom, alcohol, nightclubs and adulthood kept...
  • Making The Most of University

    University can be a very scary time. New friends, new city, new subjects… how can one cope with so many different changes? At college, I was consistently placed amongst the worst. In fact, my result were bad. Quite literally, they spelt BBAD. BAD. But at the University Of Nottingham now,...
  • Thou Student Will Survive #2

    Thou Student Will Survive is a guide to university – with a difference. Through her personal experience of UoN life, Impact’s resident columnist Olivia shares her student commandments… Thou tea towel does not count Wrapping a tea towel around your head and claiming you’re a Shepherd doesn’t quite cut...