It’s hard to write an editorial for a features section; the whole thing is basically an editorial anyway. Consequently, this will be as much a love letter as an editorial, enjoy. Writing this feels as close as I will ever become to being one of the string quartet who played on the deck of James…
Lately I’ve been thinking quite a lot about getting comfortable. As in, staying in situations that may not be the best for us because it’s comfortable. A very dear friend took it upon herself many years ago to teach me about the joys of human economics, a nugget of wisdom that has proved invaluable throughout…
Road rage is defined as a sudden violent anger provoked in a motorist by the actions of another driver. In America, 1500 are killed every year as a result of it. What is it about giving someone four wheels on an engine that turns the most placid of us into screaming, red-faced miscreants willing to…
That’s amoré; most of us have fallen head over heels in love at some point or another. That heady feeling, that rush of emotion and sensation when you think of them, it’s overwhelming. At its height, it’s like an addiction. Your entire world revolves around this person, whether it’s a conscious decision or not. But…
Raise and Give Week (R&G, or RAG Week) is always mentioned as a charitable endeavour. Every year, at every event on campus, there are white buckets jangling with change for the less fortunate, But after you drop in a few coins, have you ever wondered what happens to the money afterwards? The charities for R&G…
So you’re just back and you’re already plotting your escape; here is the low down on a J1. J1 refers to the ‘J1 Summer work and Travel Visa’ which allows 3rd level full time students to work in the US for a maximum of 4 months, between the 15th of May and 15th September. For…
New Year, new semester, new you… right? Everyone is clamouring to squeeze into the overpacked gym because for the 5th year in a row, they’re absolutely going to get rid of the winter chub before March, sales of cigarettes are dropping as quick as sales of travel books rise, and the avalanche of messages from…
It’s statistics 101 and yet it is one of the most common errors people make, in journalism, in science; in life. Let’s break it down. An instance or action can cause another, for example, I ate something that made me ill; or they can correlate together, e.g. I ate something and happened to get ill…
When you’re mentally ill, people seem to think that you should know something is wrong, but that’s the nature of the beast; you might know something isn’t right, but that doesn’t mean you know what’s wrong either. It’s tough when your mind hates you; bad friends you can drop, you can leave your abusive ex-boy/girlfriend…
I’m so angry and I can’t just sit here and internalise it any more. We’ve published a lot of articles on mental health over the years, because although the stigma is starting to shed there are still huge amounts of bias and discrimination against people with mental health difficulties in this country. I’ve written about…