College Life: The Movies Vs Reality
If, like me, you grew up with that constant longing to live a life like the characters from your favourite movies, you’ll know that living the life of a college student was the one true goal.
In movies, such...
The 5 Stages Of A 9am Lecture
No matter what you tell yourself leaving secondary school about going to all of your lectures, sure you’ve been doing it for years day in and day out, the moment you start going to college everything changes. Y...
Ever After: What To Expect From Post-College Life
Sitting down with my friend, we’ll call him Tim (I call him Tuan though because that’s his real name) I asked him how he’d been finding life since finishing college. We’ve both been done now for almost exactly ...
The Five Types of Lecturers You’ll Have In College
Contrary to what every American coming-of-age film would have you believe; college really isn’t that different from secondary school. People say you don’t have to go to class if you don’t want to (You do, belie...
7 Things You’ll See This Halloween
1. Harley Quinn
It was inevitable really. Suicide Squad was one of the biggest movies of 2016 so far, and when one of the leading characters is a gorgeous, sexy, delusional villain; obviously every girl with l...
“Education Is A Right Not A Privilege”: Yesterday’s March
Yesterday's march against student fees was the latest national demonstration to sweep the nation. It came in the wake of a proposed government loan scheme to restructure college fees for students which would re...
Self Care and Selfishness: Seeing the Difference
I left school eagerly, without looking back. I left school with hope for college to be where I'd finally blossom into exactly who I wanted to be, free of the proverbial shackles of cliques and their influence a...
Keeping It Together In College
We’ve all heard the reports, listened to the lectures, gone to the workshops, but what arrre all these things lacking? Relatable stories. Experts can say ‘this is how you should deal with stress’, or certain si...
Creative Ways To Procrastinate
Procrastination. We all do it… Some procrastinate until they become worried and just do the task at hand, others procrastinate alongside a cripplingly painful state of “oh-my-god-ill-never-get-this-done-but-I–l...
The 10 People You Meet At A College Pre–Drinks
No college night out is ever complete without a good craic pre drinks where all the real drama of the night takes place. None of this drunken, whirlwind drama would be possible without the help of these 10 type...