Anonymous Writer

Is travel safe for women?

This year I went on my year abroad to Canada, which was an experience that I will never forget. I travelled across North America and saw many amazing places. The main reason I chose to spend a year in Canada was because of how safe I heard it was and...
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Posted Nov. 13, 2017

Working at summer camps: trials and tribulations

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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Posted Oct. 15, 2017

Standing up as a student: life as a student comic

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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Posted May. 12, 2017

Should we merge humans with machines?

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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Posted Apr. 14, 2017

TW: “Campus is the biggest trigger”: PTSD and university

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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Posted Mar. 16, 2017