Posts by Emma
Escaping The Procrastination Station
April 20, 2016
It’s that time of year again. Close enough to exams to feel like you should be doing work, but not quite close enough to be driven by panic to actually do the work. So instead you spend hours doing Buzzfeed quizzes on which season of Friends it is based on Monica’s kitchen. Or wondering what …
Alternative Nights Out In Notts
March 10, 2016
Ever since I wrote my last blog post about surviving university as an introvert I’ve been innundated with messages about what activities there are available for introverts in Nottingham. Just kidding, I’ve had none. But I did think that maybe poor ol’ introverted fresher me might have benefitted from some ideas for some slighty tamer/ …
Surviving University as an Introvert
January 16, 2016
Watching Antoinette’s latest video about her Autumn semester made me realise how different her first term was from mine. Whilst she was looking forward to coming back to uni after the Christmas holidays, and seemed to have fully got herself involved in university life, by the end of my first term, I was an emotionally exhausted …
The TV to watch instead of revising this Christmas
December 16, 2015
For those with exams in January, the joy of going home for the holidays is slightly tainted by the ever looming guilty feeling that you should be revising rather than pigging out on advent calandars and watching Love Actually for the twelth time. Well, what if I told you that you could have it both …
Does your society have what it takes to survive the Hunger Games?
December 2, 2015
Since seeing Mockingjay Part 2 this weekend, and after mentioning in my last blog about how the fencing society might get me out of a few scrapes in the zombie apocalypse, I started thinking about which societies would do well in the Hunger Games arena. Would the quick-thinking skills of the Improv society get them out …
4 ways Uni prepares you for the Zombie Apocalypse
November 18, 2015
Does anyone else spend their procrastination time thinking about how long they would survive in a zombie apocalypse? I like to think I’d be a survivor but I have a feeling my zombie fighting skills wouldn’t be quite up to scratch so unless I manage to befriend the whole of the fencing society (do we even have …
Student life on social
