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Category: Study

  • Why you should study Environmental Science at York!

    One of the most exciting things about picking Environmental Science as a degree has been the variety of ways in which we have been taught, from the lab practicals to…

  • Tips to make your life easier!

    Starting university provides many great opportunities to discover who you are, your interests and your abilities. However, there are many unknown areas where you may trip up or make a…

  • Picking option modules, brand new labs and baking!

    Picking option modules, brand new labs and baking!

    The New Year has definitely started back with a bang with the busiest term to date. With 8 hours of lectures on Tuesday I’ve had a very busy time, and…

  • The secret coffee spots on and off campus! You’ll thank me later

    One of the things that people always warned me would happen when I went away to university was that I would end up drinking a lot of coffee! This coffee…

  • Dramasoc is reason enough to join York

    I am sweating buckets. Quite a few of us are. For this is our first play at a new university, in front of people we barely know. And I am about…

  • Back to education after gap year travels- HELP!

    Back to education after gap year travels- HELP!

    I know the feeling. You’ve left home, seen the world, and then all of a sudden, you’re back in school again. What’s the point? You go from this: To this: NOT.…

  • Preparing for your exams…

    Preparing for your exams…

    Revising over the Christmas holidays is not always the most exciting thing to do. All you want to do is spend time with your family and your home friends, relax…

  • Studying Dante and Italian

                      This afternoon I will attempt to translate a canto of Dante’s Inferno from its original Italian. This is something I never would have thought…

  • I’m addicted to coffee… and in about 10 months you will be too

    University can be stressful. I’d say it’s 10% stress and around 90% fun. Nights out = Fun Lectures = Fun (Mostly…) Exams = Lol, nope. Exams are the root of…

  • A Week as a Law Student…

    Hi all! Today I thought I would discuss what the average week is like at YLS. Monday: So, on a Monday I enjoy a nice lie-in, not starting until 2.30pm,…

  • Typical day of an second year electronics student

    Hope you all had a wonderful winter holiday. I spent mine predominantly cooped up surrounded by work revising maths and electronic circuit theory for my January exams. If you had…

  • Life as a student in York

    Life as a student in York

    In this month’s blog post, I thought I’d tell you some more about the life of a student in the city of York. If you want to read my last…