When you think solo traveller you don’t picture me. In your mind is probably the image of a tan good-looking guy wearing flip flops and an easy-going smile, not my small weak figure paired with an impatient depressive personality. Yet I’ve travelled solo across Spain and Latin America and have...
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Can you hear the rumble? That’s the sound of hordes of hope filled 18-year olds charging towards Ikea, clutching ‘uni essentials’ lists and dragging along cash machines – I mean parents – towards dorm room decoration paradise. You’d have to be living under a rock to not know that first term...
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25% of British adults rarely read books for enjoyment, according to research, with some citing a lack of time and a whopping 40% saying they’d just rather do something else. The results, from a 2013 YouGov survey, highlight how many people in society generally don’t value books or reading for...
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Students at Manchester university have painted over Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ and replaced it with ‘Rise’ by Maya Angelou. The offending poem was painted onto a wall of the university’s Students’ Union as part of recent renovations and was subsequently criticised by a group of students given Kipling has also...
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Before I went on my year abroad I spent hours studying articles and watching videos online for any information on how to prepare myself for life in a foreign country. Now after spending five months in Puerto Rico and five months in Spain, I feel I am uniquely qualified to...
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Andrea Lucia Peters reviews the Netflix docuseries 'Wild Wild Country' and explains why she views the traditionally vilified figure of Ma Anand Sheela to be a feminist icon
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Andrea Lucia Peters investigates whether eating healthy is actually more expensive and if this is why obesity has become an epidemic.
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I’ve spent the last 7 months of my life travelling. Studying abroad in Puerto Rico, before exploring Colombia solo for a month, and then landing in Spain to start my second semester of university. During all these trips I read whatever English or Spanish books I could get my hands...
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Andrea Lucia Peters reviews Netflix's Dirty Money, a docuseries shining a light on financial crime and malpractice.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane María, a category five cyclone that hit Puerto Rico harder than any storm since 1928, 88% of the island was left without electricity. It’s been nearly two months since María, and whilst some areas of Puerto Rico have regained electricity, more than half of the...
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Students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), including two Warwick students on a year abroad, will not have a vacation period over Christmas or New Year’s to make up for the 6 week recess caused by the Category-4 hurricane that struck the island in September. The extensive one-month break...
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How can a web series about nothing be so enticing? Andrea Peters reviews 'Catherine'
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Recently a group (or perhaps an individual) has been handing out cards on public transport in London informing passengers that they are overweight and therefore deserving of fat-shaming. ‘Overweight Haters Ltd’ outlined their ‘hate’ towards fat people, as well as their ‘gluttony’ and ‘greed’.
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