by Hannah Wilkinson
Wednesday 8th June 2011, 21:46 BST
Dear Arts Student,
Is your post exam timetable of sleeping, more sleeping and occasionally watching something inane on the internet getting you down? No, of course it isn't. But just in case you run out of old episodes of 30 Rock, here are some ideas of how to fill those potentially dull hours of freedom...
Help your Natsci friends with their revision...
...because it would be cruel to leave them all on their own now, wouldn't it? You ca...
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by Becca Lawrence
Sunday 5th June 2011, 16:14 BST
My “niche” this week required little soul-searching. There’s nothing like being topical, and with the onset of Vegetarian Week (don’t pretend like you didn’t notice...) it seemed obvious what I should do: Go Green.
One particularly eco-conscious friend seemed delighted by this decision, promptly signed me up for a ‘Vegetarian Formal’ and showed me the best places to purchase your meat-free meals.
This, I thought with a certain...
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by Alice Tyler
Friday 27th May 2011, 20:27 BST
In this week’s Spectator magazine, Rod Liddle wondered which was the bigger moral transgression: that Chris Huhne had left his wife for his press-aide after twenty-six years of marriage, or that Vicky Pryce had set about ‘destroying’ her husband’s political career because he had left her, after twenty-six years of marriage, for his press-aide.
For me, both deeds, objectively, are as bad as each other. He ruined her marriage and family ...
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by Becca Lawrence
Friday 20th May 2011, 22:43 BST
My foray into the culinary world proved to be rather briefer than I had hoped, but I have decided not to let this put me off. After all, it would have been incredibly lucky (and made for the world’s worst blog) had I managed to “find myself” on the first time of asking. This was bound to happen. Mistakes are going to be made. In this situation, all that is required is an entirely new direction.
I decided that perhaps I had tried to f...
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by Becca Lawrence
Sunday 15th May 2011, 09:59 BST
As a directionless first-year historian, last week I explained to you my dilemma. Most people around me had found that thing that they’re good at: their “niche,” if you will. I, on the other hand, have not.
And so my quest begins: this term, I am going to Find My Niche.
I am lucky enough to have found friends who are either incredibly supportive…or who simply want to see me fail at various activities in different amusing ways. It i...
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by Becca Lawrence
Sunday 15th May 2011, 09:52 BST
Upon arriving in Cambridge all those months ago, something really struck me: there is an underlying assumption at this university that leaving with “just a degree” simply isn’t enough.
This may appear like a fairly bleak statement, but it seems to me to have held true. Most people around me had found that thing that they’re good at - their “niche,” if you will. Unfortunately, surveying the achievements of my last two terms didn’t...
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by Kat Griffiths
Monday 9th May 2011, 19:55 BST
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR. Hello. Been a while.
So I found out that two gorgeous people I know are in love (YESH!) and they did the thing of keeping it a secret for a considerable (almost malicious) amount of time - WELL IT'S TOO LATE - you're relationship belongs to everybody now and we're going to bask in your love and think it's perfect because it doesn't actually belong to us and we'll never have to know otherwise MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
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by Clare Mohan
Thursday 10th March 2011, 16:03 BST
This is going to be a fairly link-heavy post. I'm not going to say much in my own words, because I don't really have any that are adequate. I don't want to get my facts wrong, or say something wrong, certainly not about something so hugely and catastrophically important. The only thing I will say, is why does this not get so much more attention?
Read this article, from V Day's DRC campaign page. Also, read this article from the Guardian. Look...
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by Kat Griffiths
Saturday 5th March 2011, 16:34 BST
Cautionary notice: adult content within.
I AM TOO EXCITED ABOUT LIFE TO SLEEP. So I’m gonna shake a little Swearbox out of the bottom of my pyjama-trouserpants...Ahem...
So about forty-five minutes after I left home for the first time (back in the Trojan war) I received a text from my elder sister that read “Me and Mum just cleaned under your bed. You’re disgusting.”
“The dust” I thought “the spider nests” I assumed ...
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by Clare Mohan
Saturday 5th March 2011, 11:36 BST
Wow. This post is so late it could be either late for last week or early for next week. How exciting.
You've probably all noticed the CUSU elections taking place (I hope you have). I don't think I'm allowed to tell you how to vote, so I'm not going to.
Instead, I want to focus on something related, if tangential, to the CUSU election campaigns, which is the necessity for Women's representation in Cambridge, and why it's important that we st...
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