Posts Tagged ‘ Lazy Students ’

My degree? It’s just an overpriced swimming certificate…

December 11, 2009
By Greg Coughlin

Congratulations! It’s been a hell of a ride but you’ve done it! You’ve negotiated the potentially hazardous route from undergraduate to graduate, stopping off at the somewhat superfluous graduand on route. What next? Photos outside the arts block, hugs from loved ones and a quick exercise in hat catching before you are flung out...
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Horrendous house hunting

August 20, 2009
By Eleri Williams
Horrendous house hunting

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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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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