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 […]
Category: Miscellaneous
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 […]
Best Apps for University
It’s getting to a tough time of term. The deadlines are piling up, reading week is a distant memory, and the Christmas holidays are pretty […]
Time flies when you’re having fun!
I can’t believe I’ve been in Exeter for about 10 weeks already! Time sure does fly! It’s been a wonderful time filled with mostly highs […]
Week Eight Wrap-Up: Turning Points and Twinkle Lights and Tar Barrels
The term is half over and my time is Exeter has reached its midway point – that’s crazy! I think right now, I’m at that […]
“Exeter is far!”
Year after year I would defer my admission for my postgraduate degree. I always had a very good reason, it was either I was pregnant, […]
Dealing with Rejection (though not the relationship kind)
Failure happens to all of us at some point. Whether it’s a GCSE you knew you always hated, your first, second or even third stab […]