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By Charlotte Love Travel and adventure are two things that can often be found at the top of any students to do list. Daydreams of sunset beaches in coastal towns or busy city markets with colourful foods you hardly recognise are never far away when exams kick in. If this sounds a lot like you, then take the opportunity of a year abroad at some point during your time at Loughborough. Whether to work, teach or study, a year spent in a foreign country doing something completely different can benefit you as an individual and a graduate in so many…
By Alice Priestley If there’s one thing to expect when starting uni, it’s that you’ll meet a huge range of weird and wonderful people. The first few weeks are undoubtedly the most sociable time at uni, and so it’s the optimum time to really get to know who you’re living with. Here are a list of the characters you’re most likely to find as a flatmate. The Masterchef As soon as you see the organic olives sitting on the middle shelf of the fridge, you know you’ve got a Jamie Oliver on your hands. They’re the one who make the…
By Kate Bradley A regular night out at the union can produce many weird and wonderful sights…in reference to fancy dress: of course! However, why does it seem like we now enjoy fancy dress more than we did when we were children? Despite being legally ‘adults’, living away from home and studying for a degree, we still find the nostalgic draw of fancy dress a force to reckon with. So is that the biggest appeal? Knowing we have the real world just around the corner, we decide to embrace the face paint and let our creative juices flow. As children…
By Rupert Ibbotson Holding the record for being one of the world’s oldest holidays, the origins of Halloween lie in the Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain celebrates the end of the harvest season in Celtic culture and was a time to build supplies in preparation for winter. The Celts believed that on October 31st, the boundaries between our world and the otherworld opened and that the dead were able to mingle with the living. Over the millennia, this pagan festival transitioned into what it is today; a day of merriment, costumes, parades and sweet treats. In Ireland, bonfires are still lit…
By Helena Reid Degrees can be daunting to us all and can cascade us into a sense of terror and anxiety. By organizing ourselves, knowing ‘what’s what’ and having plan of action, we can succeed in a cool, calm and collected fashion. These ‘Top 10 Tips’ provide a guide in doing so. Go to Lectures This is a fairly good start. It’s surprising how many elusive characters there are on every course. But it’s true what they say: the more you put in, the more you get out. This comes hand in hand with participation. If you participate in a Lecture,…
By Lizzie Akass Flatmates can be kind sometimes, but they can also be a bit of a nuisance! Here’s the top five of each… Top 5 kind gestures from flatmates Looking after people when they’re sick Everyone gets sick at some point when they’re at uni (ahem, fresher’s flu), and it always seems to happen when you have nothing to treat yourself with, so running down the road to the shops in the wind and the rain when you’re ill is just the worst. Therefore, if a flatmate knocks on your door with a lemon and honey drink, lemsip, or pain…
By Alice Priestley You’ve had your house viewings and you’ve come to a decision: the cute little house nestled in the middle of the street: just the right size for you and your friends (and it has a dishwasher!). There’s just one drawback – the risk of a possessed demon-girl awakening every night, crawling from your basement into your bed and dragging you back down with her. Though it’s easy to neglect a dusty old cellar, the unused, albeit eerie, space actually has more potential than you think. Here are some tips of how to make the most of your…
A little while ago, Alan Zhou performed Lonely Seasons for Loop! Take a listen.