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  • Education, Education, Education

    16 March 2016 by Joshua
    2 minute read

    For most people (including me), questioning education is not something one does as they grow up. The bells, the uniform, the timetable, what you are taught and who decides this.…

  • Choices

    16 March 2016 by Matt
    3 minute read

    At the end of this month, some of you should all have all of your offers made from all of the universities you applied to, and others of you may…

  • Time for a Holiday

    15 March 2016 by Nick
    2 minute read

    The spring term has come to an end and I am so ready for a nice relaxing holiday, though obviously not without some prep for the summer exams. I just…

  • What people ask me on open days

    15 March 2016 by Jamie
    5 minute read

    As I write this I have just finished confirming my module choices for my final year. Yep, time goes that fast. It doesn’t feel like a year and a half…

  • A virtual Open Day!

    A virtual Open Day!

    15 March 2016
    4 minute read

      There’s a couple of months leading up to starting university that are a blur of car journeys, train stations, parking lots, pretty average campus shop meal deals and watery…

  • Results, Football and Something to think about…

    19 February 2016 by Ranjit
    3 minute read

    One of the things I like about the people on my course this year is our Facebook group we have, particularly when somebody notifies everyone the marks for a module…

  • Maths at York: a student perspective

    Maths at York: a student perspective

    21 January 2016 by Grace
    3 minute read

    Originally, York wasn’t one of my university choices. Living in East Yorkshire means that my parents are a mere 45 minute drive away, and at the time, that didn’t seem far…

  • Variety, variety and more variety! One perk to being a PEP student at York.

    Variety, variety and more variety! One perk to being a PEP student at York.

    19 January 2016 by Laurie
    3 minute read

    Aside from being constantly quizzed on current affairs from all your non-PEP friends, and being repeatedly labelled as “one day running the whole country”, a big benefit (at least in…

  • Your first term at York: What to expect

    Your first term at York: What to expect

    19 January 2016 by Izzy
    4 minute read

    Let’s fast forward a year… you will have just completed your first term at the University of York, about to start your second term and ready to sit those all…

  • Studying Linguistics at York

    Studying Linguistics at York

    11 January 2016
    3 minute read

    Now you know how to impress your flatmates with some homemade veggie burgers (see last blog post if you’re wondering what on earth I’m talking about), it’s probably time to…