- Caitlin Wallace - 20 December 2020, 04:53
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Are you feeling festive? With 2 assignments due on Monday, I’m not quite there yet either. You can bet though that as soon as I hit submit on that last essay, I’ll be putting on a pair of Christmas pyjamas and cosying up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate and popping on […]
- Kira Samide - 7 December 2020, 04:10
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With most of my friends starting to go home now, I am reminded of my lack of fixed plans for the holidays. Although I haven’t been back home in a year, needing to stay in Dundee until the semester ends, expensive flights requiring at least one stop-off in an additional country, my skiing job being […]
- Kiah Edwards - 7 December 2020, 09:02
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Today I thought I’d share with you my top 5 tips for doing Christmas shopping on a budget! I know a lot of us a students with not that much money behind us, so sticking to a budget is probably the best idea around Christmas time. Look out for student discounts. I mean, this tip […]
- Jakub Stepanovic - 6 December 2018, 07:39
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Season of joy, reunions and generosity, but also the time of struggle, mainly when your countdown isn’t set to the boxing day, but to that dissertation deadline, which is coming in hard. If that’s your case, it’s likely that you don’t have much of the festive spirit on your mind – not to mention some […]
- Kiah Edwards - 1 December 2018, 05:58
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It’s been a crazy few weeks with deadlines hitting me left, right and centre, and now revision for exams is taking over, but I managed to find some inspiration for a blog post that won’t just be me banging on about how difficult this time of year is at uni! It’s always good to take […]
- Stuart Mcclelland - 8 December 2017, 06:42
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So here we are in December already. First thing most people think of when they think of December is probably Christmas.. Food, gifts, family, getting cosy in front of the TV with a hot chocolate maybe? For most students though deadline and exam season comes first and having a double shot flat white in front […]
- Katie Whitham - 13 November 2017, 04:40
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As Christmas fast approaches I’m overwhelmed by the amount of Christmas shopping I have to do! I can’t believe how expensive presents are and with so many children in my family, children’s toy shopping seems to be the worst of it all! Something which strikes me the most is the amount of children’s toys that […]
- Eilidh - 20 January 2017, 12:05
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Happy New Year! I hope the festive break treated you all well, and you were able to enjoy some home comforts over the holidays- although, with it being over three years since I flew the nest, the couple of days I spent back home with family over Christmas were more than enough for me! (The […]
- Harry Martin - 16 January 2017, 10:17
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Its Monday morning. It 9am. And its a new semester. Students may therefore be experiencing the following symptoms: -withdrawals of home comforts -inability to function and form proper sentences before 10am -forgetting how to cook and fully adult for oneself -denial about the upcoming semester and looming dissertation If you are experiencing any of these symptoms […]
- Christina - 15 January 2017, 09:39
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One wouldn’t think there would be many differences between an American Christmas and an English Christmas… one would be wrong. I spent my first Christmas holidays with my partner and his four kids in Nottingham where I was promptly introduced to British Christmas traditions, as well as taking the time to introduce everyone to some […]