I’m just a small town girl (living in a lonely world), so when I decided to go to university, I opted for a city, and my city of choice was Liverpool. I didn’t really know a lot about Liverpool when I went there. I hadn’t really seen much of it. I was naïve to...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Alice-May Purkiss ’
Student Life in Liverpool
On revision and procrastination (P.S. I wrote this piece to avoid more revision…)
I am 20 years old and I have just completed my second year of university. Since the start of my educational career I have sat three lots of SAT’s exams, 12 GCSE’s, four AS Levels, three A Levels, three first year University exams, two second year university exams and I am in the process...
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Labour are losers when it comes to university funding
When a university student leaves education, most will have thousands of pounds worth of debt. Tuition fee loans and maintenance loans all add up to a pretty hefty sum of money. We will all, or the majority of us at least, be sent out into the world with a massive debt on our shoulders...
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The Trouble With Teens
Young people are so often penalized simply for being young. Why not the same for old people, asks Alice-May Purkiss
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‘Snow’ way out!
So. On Sunday night, as everyone knows, it snowed. And it snowed quite a lot in some places. Some said that it was the worst snow in this country for 6 years, others said it was the worst for 18 years. All I know is that it was the most snow that I had...
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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...
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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....
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