Since returning to Warwick, I don’t think I’m alone in engaging in the usual exchange of: “ah we haven’t seen each other in four months, but we were kind of friends before, and now I’ve seen you on the U1 and we have to awkwardly make conversation for thirty-five minutes”....
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The morning after pill can cost almost four times more in the UK than elsewhere in Europe. Azzurra Moores discusses why this is the case.
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One writer discusses whether the habit of binging TV programmes on Netflix is bad for us, and how this could be changed...
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One writer investigates whether artificial intelligence can exhibit racism and other prejudices.
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Lydia Norris dispels the myth that the only way to eat healthily is to follow a clean 'fad' diet.
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If someone had told me two years ago that I would start performing stand up comedy at university, I would have said that that was a funnier idea than any joke I could ever write. But two years later and I’ve performed stand up at student and external gigs and...
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Edward Potter speaks out about his personal conflict with his Catholic beliefs and his own sexuality
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An anonymous firsthand account of the stigma associated with mental health disorders and masculinity.
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Following Elon Musk’’s recent announcement of his new venture Neuralink, one writer asks whether merging humans with machines is a good idea. In modern times, perhaps unsurprisingly, science-fiction is becoming science-fact. Artificial Intelligence is booming and machines are learning fast, sometimes without human supervision. Many futurists and technologists claim that...
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TW: mental illness, depression. Poor mental health is something I’ve struggled with for many years. At the end of my second-year at Warwick, though, I was in the best place emotionally that I had been for a long time. I was in a happy relationship, was at a healthy weight...
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TW: sexual violence, suicide, mental illness. When campus is the biggest trigger for your mental illness, it makes studying almost impossible. I suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and this comes with numerous difficulties which are tough to cope with at the best of times and even harder to come...
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Compared to school, family life and work, life at university is a fairly sexualized place. For most people it is the time after moving out of your parents’ house, and before getting married, where you can be free to explore without prying eyes. If you are not heterosexual this means...
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I live with a mental illness which requires me to take a number of prescribed psychiatric medications including antipsychotics and antidepressants. My diagnosis is borderline personality disorder and I also have symptoms of psychosis/underlying which is why I take the antipsychotics. I was seen at an NHS specialist unit every...
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