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Grim times for graduates – but don’t lose faith

December 8, 2009
By Max Glover
Grim times for graduates – but don’t lose faith

The above quote, by Britain’s favourite straggly-haired Irishman articulates perfectly the fear that many undergraduates have with regards to their job prospects. Ignore engineers and accountancy students, who seem swamped with offers.  Ignore medics, who seem to bask in that ethereal glow of doing something that is a) difficult, b) helps mankind and c)...
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The age of the internet and the end of interaction

August 10, 2009
By Max Glover
The age of the internet and the end of interaction

At the risk of turning into my Dad, I feel more and more alienated by the internet-driven society in which we live. Being twenty, I can remember a time when not every household had a computer (gasp!), let alone two or three, and when the Internet was something of a novelty whereby you could...
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Partying on the Danube: Exit Festival in Serbia

August 7, 2009
By Max Glover
Partying on the Danube: Exit Festival in Serbia

Having grown out of Reading Festival, tired of seeing fifteen year-olds ‘getting down’ to The Pigeon Detectives and The Klaxons, myself and several uni mates decided to take a punt on Exit Festival in Serbia. Although not as well publicised and thus not quite as mainstream as the likes of Benicassim, Rock Werchter and...
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