Category Archives: Freshers

99 UK Students’ Unions on Twitter

Back in 2009, I compiled a list of all the students’ unions I could find on Twitter. I found just over 60. Twitter had already made quite a mark. With the increasing popularity of Twitter, even more SUs have come … Continue reading

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How to Ensure Living With Others Doesn’t Resemble Fresh Meat

Have you been watching Fresh Meat on Channel 4? How does it compare with your university experience? The show follows a bunch of Freshers who are stuck together in a house off campus because there isn’t enough room in the … Continue reading

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Make Contact, Make Friends!

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Fresher or a third year. Your university life is likely to involve a lot of socialising. There is no perfect way to blossom as a social butterfly, but there is plenty you can do … Continue reading

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Find the right reasons to read ahead

You might think that reading ahead can only be positive. By knowing in advance what you’re meant to read, why shouldn’t you just read it now? Erin E. Templeton writes in ProfHacker, “the act of reading ahead is often exceptionally … Continue reading

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Why applying to Oxbridge shouldn’t be scary

Speaking in The Guardian, Mary O’Hara looks at applying to Oxbridge: “Twenty years on from my graduation, it is upsetting that many of the barriers my generation faced are so prevalent for poorer youngsters today; that they are still so … Continue reading

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