Author: Finn
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Things to Consume: Passive Learning
Active thinking can be quite unpleasant and sometimes – despite not being the best way to learn – it’s nice to just sit back and absorb information. Books If you’re looking…
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Easy ways to save money at York
£££££ Dealing with money is a frustrating thing, I hear you. It’s tempting to shut your eyes and ignore your perpetual descent into an overdraft. But here are a few…
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What to do over the holidays
The length of the holidays when you’re at uni is slightly absurd, by real-world standards, but its existence is well justified. What you choose to do in your 3 months…
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Colleges, Societies and Getting Involved
You may have noticed that the University of York describes itself as a collegiate university and, if you’ve spoken to UoY students, people often take their college (and its associated…
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Natural Sciences: Streams and Socials
As a little overview of what our fun interdisciplinary degree is like, I’ll go through a few of the streams you can choose and why we like them! Chemistry-Maths-Physics I am…
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My recent trips and outings in York (and lots of food)
The last month has been a nice one. I had my birthday recently which was very pleasant as, after eight hours of lectures, my flatmates got me cake, some crazy…
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Choosing houses and making food
So far this term I have signed for a house, made some great food and played lots of squash! I also got exam results and chose my modules too, which…
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Between My Two Homes
Having had them very much present for the previous month, it was quite strange leaving friends from uni for the first time. This made it particularly nice to see them…
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The Work and Home of NatSci Students
Hello! My plan is to restrain myself from etching down every single event that has occurred in the last 7 weeks since I arrived so, instead, I’m just going to talk…