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Of Giant Furniture And Stubborn Printers
I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that I’m not only alive, but settling in to my life at uni. And by “settling in” I mean desperately rushing around from place to place, feeling somewhat like a...
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Breaking In My Boots
For a long time, I wanted a pair of Doc Martens. (Let’s just clarify this. They say Dr Martens on the label. Nobody ever calls them that. Personally, I call them DMs. So, for the purposes of this post,...
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Sometimes, I make terrible life choices. Sometimes I’m sitting in my room, well aware of the ticking clock dragging me inexorably towards the deadline for this essay, which has been weighing on me for...
View ArticleSomebody Take The Pain Away
Let’s talk about hypermobility syndrome. Why? Because I want to rant. Because if I’m going to type at all today despite the pain I’m going to use it to take out my frustration, and maybe help some...
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Yep, I’m Back At Uni
Things that have happened in the three days I’ve been back at university: I lay down for a quick rest on Sunday afternoon because my shoulders were aching. Two hours later I was woken by a student from...
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A Day In The Life (Of An Unproductive Cambridge Student)
Engie @ Musings From Neville’s Navel recently wrote a post detailing how she spends her days: A Day in the Life of a Homeschooled Senior. She’s done this a few times over the past few years, and I...
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Becoming A Landlubber
Getting involved in Pirates of Penzance was meant to be my chance to experience student life. Not just the work side of it, with lectures and essays and supervisions, but the extra-curricular things...
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Outside, Looking In
Since actually participating in theatre turned out to be overwhelming in terms of time and energy required, I decided to take a different approach to participating in student life by … observing it....
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Another Term Done (Sort Of)
Cambridge terms are intense, overwhelming, and exhausting… but at least they’re short. Lectures finished for the term on Wednesday, and I’m heading home in a week’s time. Okay, so I have three...
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Frustrations Of A Coeliac Student
I was diagnosed with coeliac disease last summer, and there are some very particular frustrations, struggles, and thoughts that come to me whenever I think about it or have to explain to people exactly...
View ArticleThoughts On Returning To Cambridge
I’m now sort of back in Cambridge. I say sort of, because while I’m here, the vast majority of my stuff is not. And I bring an embarrassingly huge amount of stuff to uni, much of it food-related; I...
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Pokemon, Flatmates, And Jaffa Cake Deficits
I’m now properly moved in, even if there’s still a miscellaneous box of things to be unpacked which I’ve covered with a towel in the hope that it’ll magically sort itself out. I’ve stuck posters on the...
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My Friend Nellie The Cat
I’ve now been back in Cambridge for a week, and things are already getting pretty hectic. With two essays and a dissertation demanding my attention, I of course spent my morning watching previous...
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Two Essays Done, An Infinite Number To Go
My resolution to keep better on top with blogging this term hasn’t gone quite as well as planned, not least because I discovered the TV show Lucifer and watched a season of it over the course of two...
View ArticleStomach Bugs And Unpredictability
Sometimes I struggle to find the motivation to do anything, so that when it comes, I have to chase it down no matter how unwise it might seem at the time. Like on Monday. I hadn’t managed to get...
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Optimism Is Looking On The Knight Side
I made a sort of unofficial promise to myself, as I contemplated the start of the new year and the chance to give my blog some fresh life and maybe even some improved stats: I was going to try and be...
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Lent Term Updates & Positivity
I came back to Cambridge on Saturday and promptly realised I’d forgotten several things I’d definitely meant to bring, including my current knitting project. I mean, I can’t really afford to take the...
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The Student Experience (Doesn’t Involve Much Work)
I wouldn’t exactly say I’m coping with deadlines and balancing my life and so on at the moment. After Monday’s protest, I found myself on Tuesday morning writing a 2,000-word essay in the course of an...
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A Conspiracy Against Productivity
It hasn’t been the easiest few days for me, to the point where I’m beginning to think there’s a conspiracy in place to stop me ever beginning to catch up on work. I’ve resigned myself to being somewhat...
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Describing Pain
Pain is really difficult to describe. When you go to hospital — because of an acute problem or for an outpatient appointment of some kind or whatever — they often ask you to rate it on a scale of 1-10,...
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