Y’know what I just don’t understand? Avocados. I don’t get the fascination. I think they have a weird texture, and I think they taste like soil. Moreover, they go off too damn quickly, and they look like large, mummified pears. Yet, my house is full of them, because my housemates adore the things. They put…
A few Christmases ago I took the opportunity to conduct a small psychological experiment because I had far too much free time. I had been reading online articles on the positive effects of altruism that week, and far be it from me to believe anything I read on the Internet without fact-checking it in some…
I will admit that I have the privilege – and it’s the only privilege I seem to have – that I get to read over everything in this paper before I go to write this editorial. To be honest, this week, I’m not sure what to put here, and the temptation to simply copy-and-paste Lauren…
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”- Dr. Seuss I’m not sure if it’s because of the internet, social media or if it’s something else, but in today’s world we seem to be obsessed with image and perception. As a generation…
To pull the curtain back a bit, I always end up doing this last – not because they’re hard (they’re not), not because I don’t like doing them (I do) but because that’s just always how it ends up. I have to pour through around 50,000 words of mostly other people’s writing every fortnight, in…
I graduated last week, and sure, we made all the cliché jokes about being older, no idea what we’ll do now etc. We were given a talk about ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and were told that maybe we should jump down the rabbit hole before thinking of how we’ll get out again, or that maybe we…
Maps seem to be a big trend nowadays. No, I’m not being shady. I have one myself – it’s up on the wall above my desk. Of course, a lot of people hang maps around their houses for aesthetic purposes: I’m almost certain that the earth doesn’t have a pleasant pastel tone if you were…
The greatest threat we face today is not any terrorist organisation, it’s not the impact of Brexit, it’s not the upcoming presidential election; the greatest threat we face is global warming. We’ve heard for years now from experts, researchers and scientists of how catastrophic the effects will be, and we’re already seeing some of them:…
Another week has rolled by. Clubs are now training, the season is well under way and each evening a new sporting spectacle awaits us. If you are like myself; a sports mad television addict, it is this time of year when things really heat up. On any night of the week you can have your…
I’m going to take this opportunity to apologise to my immediate predecessor Brian (who will have graduated from his Masters the day before this comes out – if you actually read this Brian, congrats brother). All throughout last year I wasn’t quiet about my gripes with the workload as Designer of the paper, and the…