’19 YEAR OLD GRADUATED ETONIAN SEEKS social, intellectual and aesthetic equal. Must be pashmina clad, preferably adorning worn ballet pumps, Jack Wills tracksuit bottoms and in possession of a public school education?’ Is The University of St Andrews elite or elitist? Having been labelled last year the 3rd best university in the UK by...
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In my experience, house-hunting has always proved a rather stressful business. No matter how many times the university’s Accommodation Office announces that there is no shortage of student properties, no need to rush into anything, we are nevertheless consumed with a nagging suspicion that if we wait much longer, all the best places will...
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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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Now before I came here, I – along with every guy I knew – was under the illusion that university was going to be brimming with eager beavers and that getting a girl would be as simple as jive walking, brandishing a bit of body hair and pronouncing yourself heterosexual. Expectations led me to...
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There are a few education stories that make up the staple diet of education reporting in newspapers. There is the good-old A-level results day splash (generally featuring 18 year old lovelies, jumping up and down with bits of paper). The piece that berates how ludicrously easy exams are these days (again, accompanied by 18...
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When you first move into a student house, first impressions are everything as you try desperately to keep the lid on your quirky behaviour in front of your new housemates (so dancing in your underpants to Lou Bega is a big no-no). Every action, you feel, is scrutinized by your fellow inmates as you...
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A science teacher has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking a 14 year-old boy with a 2kg weight. Mr Peter Harvey, who taught at All Saints Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, had recently returned from sick leave after having a stress related stroke. It is alleged that Mr Harvey attacked Jack Waterhouse...
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Many things are deemed to be precious within a student household. Fresh underwear, cider, Miss Microwave and her radioactive goodness and the one comfy chair in the dilapidated damp box you like to call the living room are each important comforts. However, if you really want to strike at the heart, at the very...
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The final term of university has drawn to an unwelcome end. Many are packing up their rooms, three years of memories (some drunken ones we’d rather forget) are crammed into hefty removal boxes. Fond farewells are made, overdue library fines are paid and at long last those dirty mugs and plates are cleaned. This...
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Students don’t have a lot of spare cash to throw around. When the student loan comes in and rent goes out, most students – myself included – are left with very little to play with for the next three months of their lives. Uni has taught me a totally different way of handling money....
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