Few things are harder than mustering the courage to leave a comfy, hungover state and head to the gym. Having plenty of time on my hands lately has meant I ponder a lot. To gym, or not to gym, that is the question. The gym doesn’t seem natural. Everything about it is so wrong....
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Archive for January, 2009
Gym’mind if I don’t?
The joy of junk food
It’s a well known fact: there is nothing nicer than a greasy takeaway after a night out on the tiles, drinking fizzy pop.
At home, finding a good pizza shop within a three minute walk of where you are is as easy as ABC. There is, after all, only one club, and all the bars...
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Chomp, Chomp, Chomp: Students and the Credit Crunch…
As has been noted on this blog before, the current financial situation and resulting credit crunch is a massive pile of dog mash for pretty much everyone.
For us students over in university land this has meant shed loads of bad stuff. Obviously the lack of graduate jobs is worrying, but my main concerns are...
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Universally challenged: Exeter University in major general knowledge fail*
I love University Challenge. It gives students a chance to be on telly, Jeremy Paxman a chance to be rude to people other than politicians and my Dad a chance to show off every Monday evening. But the best thing about it is this: it’s bloody hard.
If you come away with half a dozen...
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Entrapment: How Labour is ruining Britain’s universities
Entrapment is a horrible thing. Whether it’s US snipers using ‘bait’ to give themselves an excuse to shoot Iraqis, or just a really bad movie, it should be avoided in all forms. But, according to The Times, this is exactly what the government is doing to the UK’s universities:
“Universities will now have their government...
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How did I end up here?
University is a funny beast. I always thought that I would go to university as it is now the ‘done thing,’ but I never really thought a lot about what I wanted to study, where I wanted to study, or even, perhaps most importantly, if I actually wanted to go to university at all.
I...
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Exam stress needn’t get in the way of a trim vagina
January is pretty much the turd of the bunch as months go. In addition to the never ending dark, everyone realises they’re fat and poor. To compound this monumental month of misery the unsuspecting student also has the stress of exams to deal with.
Exams and the associated stress are a strange thing. We’ve been...
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The horror of housing
Have you found a house for next year yet? You ought to have done; and if you haven’t then you really should be panicking a lot by now because there’s not the teeniest potential shard of a chance that you’ll be able to find anywhere half decent now, not least with someone you actually...
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