Last summer I was extremely lucky to be accepted onto a 5-week study abroad course in Singapore. The exact, rather long-winded title of the course (for those of you who might be interested next summer) is…deep breath…’Science Biodiversity Summer Study Abroad Programme, National University of Singapore’. This was my first time ever in Asia and wow, what an amazing…
For my J1 a couple of summers ago, I was a camp counselor at an all-girls sleepaway camp in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. I was just after a breakup at the time and craved the support and comfort the ‘all-girls’ environment promised. The experience proved really good for me. The place was kind of like a…
American talk show host Bill Maher came under fire recently for suggesting that body shaming overweight people should make a “comeback” in order to combat obesity. “We have gone to this weird place where fat is good. It’s pointing out that fat is unhealthy, that’s what’s bad” Maher said. “Fat shaming doesn’t need to end. It needs to…
When you think about it, humans are remarkably fragile little beings. In the days before modern medicine, a couple of fleas, rats and germs wiped out over a third of Europe. Infectious diseases, for a very long time, were the largest threat to mankind: the 6th century Plague of Justinian knocked out an estimated 17 percent of…
‘The National Report on Student Mental Health in Third Level’ launched on the 27 th of August in Trinity College by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has found a third of college students are experiencing “extremely severe levels of anxiety” and have had a formal diagnosis of a mental health difficulty at some…
Hello and welcome to the opinions section. My name is Elisha and I will be your guide. I’ve been opinions editor here at the Express for just a couple weeks now and I think I’m doing just swell so far. I have yet to receive my first piece of hate mail and nothing has spontaneously…
During his commencement speech at the University of Arts in 2012, widely beloved Author Neil Gaiman reflected on his life’s work, explaining to the very soon-to-be graduates, that “the problems of failure are hard” but that “the problems of success can be harder because nobody warns you about them.” This, boys and girls, I’ve learned…
The UCCSU of 2020 have been voted in, and the term of 2018/19 is slowly coming to an end; what do we think? Skepticism of the UCCSU seems rampant. Critics claim that elections are won based on free sweets and popularity. This election season, there was a healthy RON campaign against the only Comms candidate…
The world is doomed- apparently! A fairly grim opening sentence, I know. But let’s face it, this seems to be the direction in which we are heading. Whether that is now, in 10 years’ time, or in 100 years or 1000 years, no one seems to know for definite. Scientists predict that a rise of…
We’re often told, mainly by American politicians, that America is the greatest democracy in the world. It’s very easy to see why they think that. Aside from their narcissism, the US is, in fact, a fantastic county. The individual rights afforded to its citizens are second to none, and the American people have been great…