Goodbye, see you soon: how to stay in touch with your university friends
Saying goodbye to your university friends can be painful. Miruna Mihaila shares her worries, and explains how you could stay in touch with your friends.
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Miruna Mihaila
The perfect recipe for studying: is music in the mix?
Imagine yourself walking into any of the library’s floors, what do you see? Clearly not even a single free seat but besides that, you would probably notice the numbers of students wearing headphones while studying. If you stay long enough, you might even observe someone moving their feet to a beat
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Circling: an international perspective
Picture this: you are a young adult from Eastern Europe. You’ve just come home from the local bar and some club. You’re not that drunk and you remember (almost) everything. The night had started with drinks around 9pm. You and your friends were at a bar where they don’t ask...
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New Year, new Warwick: resolutions for the university in 2019
As January tradition dictates, many of us have been making our resolutions for the New Year over the past few weeks. Here, a few of our writers offer some suggestions they believe Warwick University and the SU should focus on as we head into 2019. Remove the scourge of...
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Does language shape your personality?
Warwick University takes a lot of pride in its international community. As Professor Seán Hand, the university’s Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor said, we are “committed internationalists” who are dedicated to “global perspectives”. This comes with a high number of both students and staff who speak two or more languages. While being proficient...
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The rush to graduate: why two-year degrees are a bad idea
Sadly, the undergraduate diploma doesn’t magically open an infinite number of doors for those who behold it. Naturally, having a degree does not mean you have acquired all the necessary skills to enter the workforce. Or at least, it surely won’t once students will have the option to ‘fast-forward’ through...
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Classics vs. contemporary: which team are you on?
If you ask any avid reader what their favourite book is, they’ll probably reply with the one written almost a century ago. At Warwick, it’s either this or one of Haruki Murakami’s brilliant texts. Truth be told, I still can’t decide whether Never Let Me Go should move up in...
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The truth about exec pressure
If you ever see me sitting in front of my laptop, looking stressed out, there is a good chance it has something to do with my exec role. It sounds quite counter-intuitive considering that societies are a fun way of spending your time, right? Don’t get me wrong, being an exec...
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Fashion essentials for your wardrobe
The Fall/Winter fashion trends are full of gloss, animal print, and fringe, but we all know sometimes it can be hard to include the extravagant designer fashion pieces into our wardrobe. Here is everything you need to be fashionable on campus: Coats: Good news! Camel coats, vintage-style military parkas, tweed...
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The Warwick Bubble has everything you’ll ever need
One of the most important criteria for choosing universities is whether you want to experience campus-life or not. While it might seem as something which shouldn’t influence your decision, it shapes your university experience more than you’d think. As someone who grew up in a small city, not having to...
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Fewer teenagers believe in the importance of higher education
A recent survey conducted by Ipsos MORI for the Sutton Trust found that less teenagers aim to attend university after graduation, as compared to 2013.
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Hall Wars: A complete guide to Warwick’s first year halls
Applying for your first year accommodation can be daunting and stressful, particularly if you haven’t visited the halls you’re applying to. Warwick guarantees on-campus accommodation for most first-years. Of course, you can always check the specific details on the Warwick on-campus accommodation web-pages, but what better way to decide where...
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Universities Australia tells members to act on sexual assault on campus
In August 2017, The Australian Human Rights Commission released a report which surveyed students from 39 Australian universities on sexual assault. Of the 39,000 respondents, 51% had experienced sexual harassment in 2016. However, the number has been contested by students and women’s groups who said that many events go unreported...
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