Studying

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 end of university is a strange and conflicting time. With deadlines done and exams taken, ideally the only feelings we should be experiencing are joy, relief and giddy excitement at the prospect of new beginnings and fresh starts. No more all-nighters in the library, no more terrible campus...

With more students applying for a degree now than ever before, the prestige of a degree doesn’t really carry the employable advantage it used to in the good old days. With this in mind, Impact set out to investigate which is more important to students: the actual degree, or...

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...

Becoming a Fresher is most students’ first real taste of freedom and widely recognised to be the best week of your life. So it’s no wonder that we have high expectations for university life as a Fresher. However, many returning students will have a more cynical outlook on Freshers’...

Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and the Pope. Not three names that usually appear adjacently on a list, but these three public figures all have something in common; they’ve all been the subject of a famous selfie. The modern trend of taking a picture of oneself has thrived alongside the...