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  • A Year in Dundee

    • Eleanor Booty - 30 April 2017, 03:19
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    I’ve spent two years in Dundee now, but I figured I’d take the time to reflect on this one. I’ve come up to Scotland from the very South East of England and in my first year I focused mostly on not feeling too homesick and trying to make it a home away from home. This […]

    Tags: Broughty Ferry, dundee, Edinburgh, Scotland, Trossachs, Year, Year in Review

  • Trip to Edinburgh Castle

    • Eleanor Booty - 3 April 2017, 11:19
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    Now that semester 2 has come to an end I thought it would be worth while to see some more of Scotland and have a little break over the weekend before diving head-first into revision. I hopped on the train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley, of which the journey is approximately an hour and a half, […]

    Tags: Capital, castles, culture, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, exploring, holiday, Scotland, settling in, social life, travelling

  • Time to Empty the Toy Box

    • Eleanor Booty - 30 March 2017, 03:51
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    I believe university is a wonderful place to explore new ideas and challenge existing ones and my friend Hope Carolan, a DJCAD student, did exactly that recently by initiating a gathering outside of Caird Hall for the support of the UN conference for nuclear disarmament. Hope and thirteen others took to the streets adorned with paper […]

    Tags: Caird Hall, CND, dundee, Government, Petition, politics, Protest, Scotland, societies, UK

  • Changing Course

    • Eleanor Booty - 26 March 2017, 04:57
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    Hi all, the last couple of months have been rather turbulent for me, especially as I was moving out of my old flat during term time. But now I finally have everything back on track. Though over the last little while I’ve been reflecting on where my course and thus my future is heading. As […]

    Tags: changing course, classes, english, philosophy

  • Brain Food

    • Eleanor Booty - 26 March 2017, 04:10
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    Last year I was in such a bad habit of constantly buying food whilst out the house, worse still it was never particularly healthy food either. So this year I’ve reflected on my eating habits and thought of ways that I could save myself a bit of cash, and feed my brain something better than […]

    Tags: brain food, cheap, focus, Food, Lunch, money, save, Saving Money, Snacking, study, takeaway, Water

  • Christmas Holidays in England

    • Eleanor Booty - 13 January 2017, 02:37
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    Before Christmas, after the end of the first semester, I travelled back down to England by car to go home for the holidays. The nine hour journey however was well worth it as I had just started to get a little homesick. Its always good to touch base with home as I didn’t have the […]

    Tags: 2016, 2017, castles, Charles Dickens, Chatham, Christmas, culture, England, Food, Historic, history, holiday, Home, Kent, new year, outdoors, Rochester, travelling

  • Hello, from the other side! (A visit to Newport-on-Tay)

    • Eleanor Booty - 12 December 2016, 11:36
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    The other day I recalled that although I had lived in Dundee for a year and a half now I hadn’t visited the small town across from Dundee, Newport-on-Tay. I knew the trip might take a while, as I planned on walking it via the Tay Bridge, but it was well worth the walk for […]

    Tags: Around Dundee, Bridge, dundee, exploring, Newport-on-tay, River, River Tay, Scotland, Tay bridge, travelling

  • Art on Campus

    • Eleanor Booty - 23 November 2016, 11:40
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    Last Thursday the second year fine art students had a get together in the level 2 studio corridors to show off what they had achieved so far this semester. The corridor was converted into a gallery complete with drinks, snacks and posters around DJCAD inviting others to come and see the work produced so far. […]

    Tags: art, classes, djcad, dundee uni, Fine art, Preparation, social life, student life, study, uni life, work

  • Christmas Preparations in Dundee, 2016

    • Eleanor Booty - 20 November 2016, 06:41
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    On Friday night the Dundee Christmas Tree’s lights were switched on, and I decided to go watch and see the event. Christmas is such a wonderful time of year and I personally love to see all the festivities. There was a carousel for the children and even a bus converted into a little Santa’s grotto. […]

    Tags: Caird Hall, Christmas, Decorations, dundee, events, lights, Overgate, SwitchOn

  • My Favourite Study Spots (On and Off Campus)

    • Eleanor Booty - 12 November 2016, 07:06
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    I absolutely love to read. Luckily my course as lots of interesting things on its reading list. But at home in the flat its easy to get distracted when trying to write essays or trying to grasp a concept as part of the course content. When I just can’t concentrate at home the best thing […]

    Tags: campus, Campus Green, coffee, Coffee Shops, dundee, DUSA, Library, Main Library, Parks, revision, Student Union, study, Study Spots

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