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Jack Richardson On the first day of Freshers, Jack looks at how accurate our favourite uni-based video games are… With COVID hanging around and a good chunk of teaching moving online this year, your regularly scheduled Fabled University ExperienceTM has gone out of the window. Truth is, the closest...

The UK has recently reported a surge in coronavirus cases with 2,988 new cases announced on Sunday 6th  September, the highest figure the country has seen since 22 May , which is hinting at a feared potential second wave. In the previous week, the seven-day rate of new cases...

Life under lockdown became the norm for nearly half a year. This means that the sudden change to fast-paced university living, can seem  daunting and off-putting. These natural anxieties are a completely normal feeling and adjusting back to student life need not be a struggle....

Coming to university is a whirlwind experience. So much is changing, and many people have a lot of expectations about how these years will be the time of their life and that they are going to meet friends for life. But that isn’t always the case, and it may...

If your parents are anything like mine, you need to let them know at least a month in advance when you want transport back to Nottingham. Otherwise, you’ll be sat on a National Express coach for 5 hours having paid an extra £50 in excess luggage fees. Luckily for...

Should Nottingham University be giving refunds for the disruption of teaching caused by COVID-19?
During the strikes, one of the University’s main justifications for not providing financial compensation to affected students was that ‘student fees cover a very wide range of services, not just tuition’. They cited the continued availability...

At any talk or network event, there is always an inspirational speaker with admirable confidence stood in front of me, so I intuitively ask if they’ve ever experienced feelings of unworthiness. They all say yes. Impostor Syndrome, characterised by low self-esteem, self-doubt, and feelings of inadequacy, plagues too many...