Posts Tagged ‘ University of Bristol ’

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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Not quite Sex and the City: Life in Paris

July 31, 2009
By Eleri Williams
Not quite Sex and the City: Life in Paris

Ah Paris! The city that invented chic, the home of romance and glamour. I set off on my year abroad filled with excitement and apprehension in equal measure. I had been planning how to spend my year away from university for what felt like an eternity, but I soon realised that even the best-laid...
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Popped collars, a surplus of second names, and a scary Canadian: it’s Bristol University’s Union Elections!

March 21, 2009
By Kat Highbury

Bristol’s Student Union is, apparently, the most apathetic in the country. There’s some statistics to back it up, but I’m so apathetic I can’t be arsed to find them. Hopefully this demonstrates the point adequately. However, turnout this year at the Union elections was reasonably good. There are probably many reasons for this – being...
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