It feels extremely strange to be blogging again, but the times we live in are even stranger. So much has happened since I last posted here (February 2019), both in my life and in the wider world. So, since I'm never one to ignore inspiration when it strikes, here's a quick update: June 2019: I went on holiday to Spain with three of...
Last week I made the trip from Brighton all the way to Durham to see friends and get back in touch with the city I lived in for three years for university. Compared to some of my trips abroad this probably isn't all that interesting to read (or even write) about, but I've realised how much I enjoy looking back through old blog...
Way back in August of 2014 I did a post about my discovery of the ASMR phenomenon and then the following February I posted about my top five favourite ASMR videos that I'd been listening to. It's been a while since I did an ASMR-related post so lets kick off 2019 with one. Today I wanted to share my current favourite ASMRtists, i.e....
I know this is a bit niche and frankly incredibly nerdy of me but I felt a strange urge to document my university essay writing process. Having written two 5000 word essays this Christmas break I am highly fed up with essay writing at the moment but I'm also conscious that 2019 is going to be my last ever year in education so...
Happy New Year! First of all, I can't believe that this will be my 7th year of blogging - or rather, the 7th year *in which I will blog*, as I started my blog in mid-2013. Anyway. In this post I thought I'd look back on the highs of 2018 as well as assessing how I've done in terms of the goals I...
It's early January which can only mean... No, not a New Years' blog post (although that's in production, my excuse is a single word: essays), instead it's a Christmas haul. The usual disclaimers apply: I'm not trying to boast or show off; this is something I do every year; this isn't intended to be a comprehensive haul but more of a feature of...
Over the last three years I've done a blog post at the end of every term of my undergraduate degree at Durham University, so I thought I'd do the same for my Masters in International Security at the University of Sussex. It's been a hot minute since I last posted but to be honest that's a function of both being busy and simultaneously...
A few weeks ago I met up with my housemates from last year in London for a little reunion, as we hadn't seen each other since leaving Durham just after graduation in June. Since we now live fairly spread out across the country and are doing very different things, it's difficult to find a time and place to see each other so it...
It's Saturday evening and for some reason I'm in the mood to write a long reflective blog post about my first few weeks at university. Well, that's kind of a lie because I wrote quite a few half-posts at various points over the last month that were more or less a stream of consciousness - so in this post I'm going to gather...
I moved into my new university house nearly 3 weeks ago, term started last week and it's been a utter whirlwind so far. Unfortunately our WiFi was delayed in getting set up (thanks Virgin) so I spent two weeks without any internet, apart from a few hours sitting in the library on campus. Until I couldn't use it I really hadn't realised how...
