Vegetarians. You either hate them or you are one. There’s no denying that vegetarianism and veganism are hot topics in foodie culture right now. And […]
Category: Miscellaneous
Exploring Cornwall Without a Car
Cornwall, as many of you have undoubtedly found out, isn’t blessed with the best transportation system in the world; it takes about an hour and […]
Time to Talk: Mental Health at University
Thursday 4th February is Time to Talk Day, a national event initiated by the UK mental health campaign Time to Change to confront stigma through […]
A Day in the Life of a Superfood Sceptic
Every year the latest food ‘hype’ is splattered over the media whether it’s the importance of eating organic as seen in 2012, going gluten free […]
Storm in a (lemon) teacup: The art of complaining
“No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared.” “The beach was too sandy.” “We went on holiday to Spain […]
One Second Everyday Video – Year 2, Term 1
At the beginning of this academic year, I was asked by the Student Blog team to have a look at creating something with the One […]
The Student Housing Panic
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, sorting housing was without doubt one of the most stressful aspects of first year for me. We waited, just […]
Week Thirteen Wrap-Up: Parties and Partings and Packing
And that was it. My last week of classes and my last full week in Exeter. I still remember quite clearly the very first time […]
Week Eleven Wrap-Up: A Woman’s Film and American Thanksgivings and AHVC Excursions
The most noteworthy this week was how unproductive I think I was. This is the strange time in the term when all that’s left to […]
Fighting First Year Homesickness
Homesickness is by far the largest difficulty I have had to face during first term. After ten weeks here things have become noticeably easier, though […]