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🎥 VLOG 2019/20 #06 This semester our Vloggers have to face different challenges in each episode – today: FIND PRETZELS IN PARIS 🥨🥨🥨 Paris is always a good idea 🇫🇷! But is it also a good idea to eat pretzels there? Watch and find out 🙃  

Baldan shares a letter to her first year self. Dear You, There’s so much to tell you. From the day that you come here everything is going to be so different. First, you’re going to meet so many people. You’ll start meeting people on your course, in your department, in your accommodation, and your social … Continue reading A Letter to You

For something that almost every student will experience whilst at university, loneliness is not something that students generally talk about. I would love to break the stigma and get people talking about what makes them feel lonely at university and ways to prevent the feeling from becoming overwhelming. So, yes, this post is a bit […]

Semester 1 is nearing the end, and it has been a busy one! Time flies when you are having “fun”? I can’t say the whole semester has been great, but it has been one of my best ones in terms of satisfaction with my course. I am here to tell you why! Previously, I was […]

The Student interviewed new Editors in Chief, Manvir Dobb and Craig Buchan, to talk about their exciting entry into The Student and their plans to re-engage the University with the newspaper. What is your background at The Student and when did you first start writing? Craig: I’ve wanted to be a journalist for a while, […]

Scottish Labour has pledged to introduce an increased study income for students in Scotland. The pledge is based on Labour’s plans for a £10 per hour Real Living Wage and will award students for 25 hours of study time each week. This will result in a minimum of £9,500 being available to higher education students […]

I got LinkedIn in the first year of University and never really knew what to do with it. My profile sat empty for a long time and I realized I needed to recall experiences and achievements I was proud of. It started with the small stuff. Implementing my high school education and what I got […]

Hold onto your elephant trousers and fasten your nose rings because I am going to explain how having the stereotypical ‘Gap Yah’ experience in South East Asia has helped me settle into the exotic lifestyle of the University of Sheffield. *Disclaimer* casual reminders and an abundance of photos are apparently a so-called by-product of the … Continue reading How having a gap year helped me settle into student life(ish)…

We know everything is screwed.  Between looming environmental breakdown, the collapse of democracies around the world, plastic pollution, mass extinction, social inequality and poverty skyrocketing, and a mental illness epidemic – genuinely, what is going well? Our streets are haunted by austerity. Homicidal xenophobia is on the rise both nationally and at the heart of […]