• Why you’re more than just tired: the science behind academic burnout

    Rachel Cox It is Sunday evening, and you’ve spent all weekend working on that two-thousand-word essay with its endless list of references and fast approaching deadline. You aren’t even halfway. Dirty plates are piling up around you, and your fridge is slowly becoming bare. Although the list of things...
  • Trust Your Gut, and Choose Better Bread

    Summer Revely Bread is a staple part of the student diet, and in later life. I’d argue that toast and toasties only come second to pesto pasta in the dream lineup of post-night-out carb loading. But have you ever thought about what is actually in bread? And the contrasting...
  • Torvill and Dean Recognised in New Year Honours

    Kian Gadsby Few Nottingham-born people have had a greater cultural influence than Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, so it is of no surprise that the 1984 Winter Olympic Ice Dancing gold-medallists have just been recognised in the New Years Honours with the awarding of Dame and Knighthoods respectively. Their...
  • A Spellbinding, Side-Splitting Night at the Theatre Royal: Cinderella Shines Brighter Than Ever

    Katie Barr   Tonight’s performance of Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Nottingham was nothing short of a festive triumph. A sparkling, riotous, heart-warming whirlwind of comedy, music, glitter, and pure pantomime magic. As soon as the music struck up and the curtain rose, the entire theatre knew we were...
  • Q&A with the Vice-Chancellor, Jane Norman – What You Need to Know 

    Amelia Cropley, Caitlin Morrell & Nura Bentata On Monday 24th November, students were invited to a ‘Question and Answer’ forum with the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Jane Norman, to discuss student concerns around the ‘Future Nottingham’ Proposal. A closed event for students only, the one-hour...
  • Fourth Wing: Magical Masterpiece or Miserable Mediocrity?

    Eliza Waddington Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing brings you to Basgiath War College, the merciless and gruelling institution where they give their students two options:   GRADUATE OR DIE   When it is young Violet Sorrengail’s turn to enrol at Basgiath, she was due to enter her beloved Scribe Quadrant,...
  • Why Breakfast is Still the Most Important Meal of the Day

    Summer Revely Are you surviving your 9ams fuelled by caffeine and panic? We’ve all been there. The constantly busy schedules, late nights in the club or completing summatives, and brief sleeps interrupted by early mornings make breakfast seem impossible at times. The crazy changes to the circadian rhythm that...