Life at UCB through the eyes of our student bloggers

Month: January 2019

The best places to study in Birmingham city centre

The best places to study in Birmingham city centre

The second semester is upon us and that means starting to study to get that First Class degree, so I thought it would be good to let you know all about the places I believe are the best for studying in Birmingham city centre. It really depends […]

How to get a job

How to get a job

Before even looking for a job, it’s important to realise what you’re getting yourself into. Getting a job is exciting and new, but if you don’t have the patience or resilience to keep going and turning up, you need to evaluate the situation. Building a […]

Getting Back Into Things

Getting Back Into Things

Hi everyone! I hope you are well and ready to start back at uni! After a long break over Christmas, it can often be hard to get back into things. So, I like to try and do little things to help make it that bit […]

Christmas celebrations and New Year planning!

Christmas celebrations and New Year planning!

And we’re back… Although Christmas seems so far away and in the past, I thought I’d share a little snippet of my time off back home, how I celebrated and what I want for the new year. Christmas in my household is always something I […]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

As talked about previously in my blog post ‘Defying Gravity‘, I’m a huge theatre fan. I’ve seen a number of productions at various theatres, including Shakespeare in Stratford, musicals at the Hippodrome, amateur productions and open air theatre. One theatre I’d never been to before […]

2018 Rewind

2018 Rewind

Hi everyone! I hope you are well and have settled into the New Year! I always find that January is a month of reflection on the past year. This time last year I looked back on the previous 12 months with my 2017 rewind and got some […]

Spending a day in London – on a budget!

Spending a day in London – on a budget!

Hello everyone! It was my birthday recently (hello 19), so I decided to go back to Portugal for a few days to spend the special day with my family and childhood friends. I flew from London since there are no direct flights to Lisbon from Birmingham […]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I don’t know about any of you, but that period between Christmas and New Year where nobody really knows what they are doing has been a bit delayed for me. For some reason, it has hit me at the start of the New Year.  I […]

Christmas Treats Pt. 2

Christmas Treats Pt. 2

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well and getting into the Christmas spirit! Around this time last year, I wrote a blog post showing you how to make some Christmas treats! I really enjoy baking, but I never do it as much as I’d […]

Food and Nutrition – December Snippet

Food and Nutrition – December Snippet

At the beginning of the semester we were set a brief of developing a product incorporating the ingredient from fruit and nut manufacturing giant Whitworths called ‘AppleSoft’, with Tesco in mind as our target market. The start of the module introduced us to various processes […]