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    Balancing Work With Education

    Alice Bennett The cost of rent and bills have increased, and university leaders warn that students are at risk of being the “forgotten group in the cost of living crisis”. Does this mean that they have to miss out on internships and skip lectures in order to do paid...
  • Feng Shui 101: Should Students Be Harnessing The Power of Feng Shui?

    Sophie Bryer is no expert concerning the principles of feng shui; however, the practice and its principles of harnessing positive energy (qi) into our lives and pushing away negativity is what intrigues her the most about this ancient Chinese practice....
  • Jenna Rink, Heaven And Hell: University Is A Form Of Purgatory

    In 13 Going on 30, 13 year-old Jenna Rink, dismayed at balancing her childhood and teenager-hood, makes a decision.. then subsequently, a discovery. Being not a child or a teenager, she relies on the idea of completion. So, without assessing what she has, she wishes she was older, away...
  • Tinder and Tenterhooks: Undoing And Reclaiming The Pains Of The LGBTQ Experience

    I OPENED DATING APPS. I was finally open to witnessing the mind-boggling, dizzying heights of venturing outside the platonic. I wanted to know what the big fuss was about. I looked at the catalogue of faces and wondered, which pair of eyes will look at me, find me appealing,...
  • Movember: Heroic Helper Or Patronising Propaganda?

    As December fast approaches, I walk to uni through a sea of charitable moustaches. Helping handlebars; pencils of positivity. Men's mental health is on our minds and, quite literally, our lips. Student-run campaigns litter billboards and dominate Instagram feeds. The conversation is well and truly happening. Smash the stigma....
  • Weekly Wellbeing: Seasonal Depression

    The year has reached its end, temperatures have dropped down from double digits to single digits, and the city is decorated with Christmas lights and Christmas trees. We tend to heavily romanticise this time of the year -  and rightly so, as we take out our puffers and trench...
  • A Rundown of UoN’s Movember Campaign

    Every November, UoN gets involved with the Movember campaign. The aim of the campaign is to get men talking about their health, specifically their mental health as well as prostate and testicular cancer. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the UK, while testicular cancer...