Student Living

If you’re like me, then you’re looking at the rapidly approaching end of the holidays and wondering where the time has gone. If you’re like me, you’ll realise that this lost time has been spent on social media, binging hallmark …

Ah, exam time. The crunch of leaves and free time underfoot, the crisp smell of cold air and mumps in Front Square. Through it all, there is one college character who is either consistently, unnecessarily worried or maddeningly calm as …

It is nearing the end of Michaelmas Term and you need to start your assignments and study for those exams. But where do you begin and how do you actually stay focused? Don’t panic! As a final year student knee …

It’s the dreaded 4 a.m. feeling – the time of the night when the hangover sets in. All the excitement of the night and your declarations of love to your friends, your partner, the random lad in the smoking area …

Before my interview with Ingrid Nachstern, a ballet teacher, choreographer, director and screenwriter, I wonder how she does it all. I greet her in Bestseller on Dawson Street and we begin chatting. I started by asking her about how she …

In an increasingly digitised world, we book lovers often have to struggle through a jungle of chain stores before we can find that one independent bookshop which satisfies all of our quaint, bookish needs. Not only are these places brimming …

I have been a student for an amount of time that’s on the verge of becoming embarrassing, and over the years I’ve garnered some experience in dealing with all of these things, which I’d like to share. 

The hangover

The …

The sun sets over Harcourt Street, and an autumn moon vanishes behind a cloud of cigarette smoke. The Sesh Gremlins, elusive creatures of the night, emerge to seek out an absolute sesh. From all corners of Dublin, they gather and …

Starting college was a wake-up call for me in many ways. For six years of secondary school, I was told that my anxiety was caused by the academic pressure that I put on myself. It seemed like a plausible cause …

The rare breed of student who bothered to attend S.P.H.E classes in school will probably understand the basics of SUSI, as will those who have braved the mountains of paperwork that it takes to apply for it. However, for the …