apologies for the french – i’m channelling my inner bedbug. A lieu de mémoire (French for “site of memory”) is a physical place or object which acts as container of memory Sabine Marschall, 2013 There’s one lecture that I remember most clearly from my time at university, about memory and place. I don’t remember a lot of […]
It’s official…I am a London convert! I’ve been here nearly a year now – ten months to be precise. My relationship with the idea of living in London has been a rocky one, my passion for the city waxing and waning over the last decade or so. Back when I was first looking at unis […]
My whole life, I’ve felt like I knew what to do next. I knew I was going to go to school, then college, then university. But what I’m realising now, a little too late, is I never filled in the plan after graduation. I knew I’d get a job, but I never coloured in the […]
In the three months since I last wrote on here, lots has changed but also not much at all. I’ve moved home and then moved out again properly, I’ve started renting a non-student flat and started a new job. I’ve got the same good friends but also made a load more, and moved into a […]
Now that I’m coming into my last six weeks at uni, I’m thinking a lot about the things I’m going to miss. I’ve genuinely loved the last three years, and I don’t feel ready to graduate. Especially with so much of my uni experience being hampered by the pandemic, I’m already feeling starting to miss […]
It’s really hard to get my head round the fact that I’ve nearly finished my degree. I have three weeks left of lectures, 10 weeks left of my degree, and about 11 left on my student house tenancy. Or, to count it down in another way, 8000 words left of assignments til I’m free. My […]
TW: rape, murder, sexual harassment & assault I feel a bit like by writing this I’m just contributing to the overwhelming mass of noise in the media at the moment. But maybe that’s not a bad thing. This needs to be talked about, and I have a lot of emotions to process at the moment. […]
It’s old news now that Instagram is bad for our mental health. It’s been one of the facts mainstream media has latched onto for the last few years when coming up with ways to persuade us that constant advances in technology, especially mobile technology, are bad. Along with suggestions that too much screen time is […]
I could talk about music for hours. Barely a day goes by where I’m not on Spotify for hours at a time, in the background while I’m working or walking or running or cooking or just listening to it. Because I love talking about and sharing the songs I love, and my friends couldn’t really […]
Uni during a pandemic is hard. Third year, when the work gets hardest and the deadlines matter the most, would be hard anyway. Third year as part of the Covid cohort? Feels almost undoable. Add in the perception that students should just be used to living in a pandemic at this point and it’s not […]
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