This month marks the beginning of my Erasmus+ exchange at Freie Universitat in Berlin! It is the one semester, so only until February/March, and it means that I will experience true winter after a year in sunny Barcelona... I enrolled today after arriving yesterday, and then decided to explore the city with my camera. It [...]
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Tips for being a student with lupus
I feel really lucky that four months after my diagnosis I was able to begin my masters degree in a foreign country - not everyone gets that pleasure. Often lupus forces people to quit school or university, with hope of maybe returning when things are a little better. I, however, am a stubborn individual, so [...]
I have a Masters degree!
Disclaimer: I actually still have my dissertation to complete before my degree is official, but we had the ceremony anyway so had to celebrate. Yes, despite another 10,000 words to write about human rights in the Middle East, and an extra semester in Berlin for the fun of it, my degree is complete! I can't [...]
A Personal 2016 in Review
Let's not talk about 2016 in the general sense. I think most agree that 2016 was a disaster of a year in terms of politics and celebrity deaths (and lets not forget the horrors of Syria and refugees that are not close to being resolved). I'm going to talk about my own 2016. Specifically the [...]
A month into my Barcelona adventure
Photo from Dec 2015, but what I walk past every day to uni... Moving country and beginning at university can be quite hectic and time consuming, so my blog has been neglected for a while. But now I am quite settled, I am giving some life to my blog by writing about me, myself and [...]
Barcelona Bound!
It's a huge relief to be writing this post, because the past few months this has been an uncertainty. But I finally booked my flight, and in a couple of weeks I will be beginning my MA in International Relations at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals! I'm hugely excited. And nervous. And impatient. And giddy. Spending the [...]
You’ve Just Graduated – Now What?
About a year ago I donned the graduation gown and cap, and did what every graduate fears: walking across the stage to graduate without falling over in front of your friends, family and professors. Then to step out into the wide, wide world and take on adult, working life. It was terrifying, mainly because I [...]
London Life on a Budget
I lived in and out of London for the best part of three years during my university studies, and whilst I came to call it my home, it can still be the daunting giant every non-Londoner views it as. Whilst I learnt to navigate the underground, roll my eyes at slow walking tourists and now I pay [...]
Student Tips 101
So, A-Level results are out and I'm seeing social media updates about how excited people are to start uni and I feel so, so very old. Also nostalgic for that youthful, innocent flutter of excitement for what uni will be. I was going to Laaandan! I was going to freshers week! I was going to [...]
Things I achieved before turning 21
Just under I year ago I wrote this post on things I intended to achieve before turning 21, and my hopes on achieving them all were not high. But I managed some! Graduate I achieved a 2:1 in English Literature from Queen Mary, University of London. Of course it wasn't easy- my final year was challenged by [...]
Inside a Mind 