Not only is this the last blog I will be writing as a UCBlogger, but it is also the end of my time at University College Birmingham. My three years here have been amazing, and I am so grateful for the opportunity. If you’re considering […]

This blog is going to be slightly different from some of my others but it’s something I feel is important and something that has really affected me. Over the last three years while I have been at university, I have been spreading myself far too […]

Writing this blog, I can now say I am officially finished! Three years of university have been and gone, just like that. I have so many emotions: relief, pride, happiness. I’m definitely less stressed but it is bittersweet. I have loved my time at University […]

I am very much a person who likes things the way they are. I almost didn’t come to university because of it. Even when I came to university, I quickly found a routine and I haven’t changed it up in three years! I’ve almost finished […]

I want to start off by saying happy Easter holidays! I don’t know about you, but I really need these two weeks off! I have had a mental few weeks full of interviews and the deadline for my dissertation! However, now my interviews are done, […]

So, two years ago, we were at the beginning of lockdown! I can’t work out if I feel like it’s been ages or not. On one hand, it feels like lockdown was a whole lifetime ago, but on the other hand it feels like these […]

Today is the first day of Reading Week and let’s be honest, not many of us will be doing much reading… well, academic reading! I don’t know about you, but reading is actually a major hobby of mine. I find it really calming to get […]

This week I need help. Help from every single one of you to support an initiative I hope to launch at University College Birmingham. It all started with an email from a lecturer asking if I would enter a competition being run by the University […]

I feel like Valentine’s Day is one of those ones that’s loved by some and hated by others. Understandably so – if you’re not in a relationship it can be kind of depressing, I’ve been there! For the last couple of years, I have been […]

I have recently joined a scheme called GLIDE. It was just another of those email invites and I had clicked the accept button without giving it a lot of thought. (No, that isn’t quite fair. The email was from Maddie Booth, and I thought anything […]